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February
American Laser Clinics Trouble In Iowa
Armed guard protects ALC patients from the supervising physician who is supposedly overseeing their treatment.
American Laser Clinics operations are stopped by a medical board yet again.
26
February
Paris, Here We Come Are
For those of you just getting up on Friday, here's a little taste of the atmosphere we're drinking in for the upcoming Health 2.0 Europe conference. And yes, we have been working hard here too!
26
February
Not exactly what athenahealth was looking for
This is not a fun day for athenahealth, and frankly with HIMSS coming up, not a fun time to have such a day. None of this has anything to do with their products or their client services, but late last night the company announced that it’s going to be restating its earnings. You can see a longer discussion on The Street.combut essentially it appears that athenahealth has been amortizing its installation costs over one year whereas they ought to have been doing it over more years. The net result is that they’ll have to restate some earnings and are going to miss the next earnings reporting deadline. The stock is off roughly 12% today.
26
February
CFP: The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics
From: SMITH K.M.
The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics
International Interdisciplinary Conference
17-18 February 2011
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease Durham University, UK
Venue: Hatfield College, Durham, UK
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010
This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today's vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a long pedigree. Since G.S. Rousseau's pioneering work underlined the importance of models of the nervous system in eighteenth-century aesthetics, the examination of physiological explanations in aesthetics has become a highly productive field of interdisciplinary research. Drawing on this background, the conference aims to illuminate the influence that different medical models of physiology and the nervous system have had on theories of aesthetic experience. How have aesthetic concepts (for instance, imagination or genius) be grounded medically? What effect did the shift from animal spirits to modern neurophysiology have on aesthetics?
25
February
Bentley & Stanton: Two UK docs talk about Health 2.0
Last week in London I met with two of the brightest lights in the UK's community of physicians looking at Health 2.0. Annabel Bentley is the medical director and head of informatics at Bupa, the UK-based non-profit health insurer, which owns Health Dialog amongst many other activities, and is also a sponsor of the upcoming Health 2.0 Europe conference. Emma Stanton is a psychiatrist, round-the-world yachtswoman, and has just spent two years on assignment working with Sir Liam Donaldson the Chief Medical Officer in the UK, and is on her way to a Harkness fellowship in the US working with Don Berwick & Eliot Fisher. Not bad company!
24
February
Is Geography Your Health Destiny?
Dr. Lavizzo-Mourney is the President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Before joining Robert Wood Johnson she taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of medicine and health care systems and director of Penn’s Institute on Aging. In Washington, D.C., she was deputy administrator of what is now the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
Thanks to a new set of reports, we now know that where you live matters to your health. People who call Prince George’s County Maryland home are twice as likely to die prematurely from disease as their neighbors just across the line in Montgomery County. The data cut both ways. People who live in the healthiest counties, such as Montgomery or Howard County Maryland have a two-to-three times better chance of living longer than people who live in less healthy counties such as Prince Georges or Baltimore.
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24
February
EHR & The Art, Science and Business of Medicine
"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business..."
- William Osler
24
February