Diet and Nutrition. Natural Health, and Healthy Living

One of the most fun times at HIMSS last week was the MEDecision party at the Georgia aquarium. I took a few videos of the Fish and the humans—so something a little different for you all

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Shine Teeth Whitening posted this video demonstration of just how easy it is to take dental impressions these days.

Shine Teeth Whitening is a Select Partner of Medical Spa MD and provides a service that gives physicians and medical spas the ability to offer custom-made teeth whitening trays to their clients.

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Some news in the world of Health 2.0 today where the worlds of patient communities and tracking tools come ever closer. (Those of you following my Health 2.0 “bubbles” chart know that “social networks” and “tools” are integrating. You can see more in the free exec sum of our report The Past & Future of Health 2.0)

PatientsLikeMe, which already does more tracking than most online communities with members recording their drugs, their symptoms, and much more, acquired ReliefInSite.

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Speranza Avram from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Center for Health Leadershipwrites tosay that they’rehosting a two-day conference on April 15-16 called 21st Century Tools for Health Leaders: Using New Media and Health Communication Technologies. New media tools including social media, blogs, digital storytelling, video, virtual communities, Twitter, mobile phones and more, are being effectively used to facilitate the management of health organizations, support health education and disease management, inform health research and promote health advocacy. We invite health leaders, practitioners, educators and students to join us. Early bird registration ends March 12! Click here for more information about the conference and to register on-line. Or watch the video.

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The production values of these ads for a cosmetic surgery clinic in the U.K. will certaninly be outside of the capabilities for all but the largerst medical spas. But you can still deliver some pretty good ads with a shoestring budget if you know what you're doing.

The production values of these ads for a cosmetic surgery clinic in the U.K. will certaninly be outside of the capabilities for all but the largerst medical spas. But you can still deliver some pretty good ads with a shoestring budget if you know what you're doing.

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What's going on in the U.K.? They're making better plastic surgery video testimonials than what I've seen in the US.

The accents make an impression too. (I used British VO talent for our phone messages to tap into the slightly romantic notions that Americans have about how sophisticated Europe is.)

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Ezra Klein haspublishedanengaging seriesofinterviewsregarding the filibuster, and the prospects and shape of reform for the Senate’s much maligned rule of procedure. The prospects for reformdon’t look particularly bright. And as we come to reckon with one of the final products of the filibuster floor, the Senate’s health reform bill, we may want to take a moment to consider the filibuster itself– this need for 60 votes.

Kleinwrites

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(Stolen direct from and Hat-tip to MrHIStalk) this is fabulous. It’s a fund raiser for Breast Cancer awareness done by more than 200 doctors, nurses, lab technicians, administrators and kitchen and janitorial staff from the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR.

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Here's the first in a series of videos from the Health 2.0 Conference a couple of weeks back that we're going to feature on THCB. This was the last panel of the day and it featured three leading health IT figures who've never been on a panel together before.

Following the passing of the stimulus and the debate over meaningful use, there’s been lots of tension between the “cats” (the major IT vendors) & “dogs” (the web-based “clinical groupware” vendors). (Here's the article I wrote about it last January). The real question is how the new wave of EMRs is going to integrate with the consumer facing and population management tools. Can there be unity around the common themes of better health outcomes through physician and patient use of technology? Or will the worlds of Health 2.0 and the EMR move down separate paths?

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