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Miscellaneous

The Biggest Trend You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: A Status Report on 138 Healthcare ICOs

You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin, but we doubt you’ve heard of Dentacoin, MedTokens, or Curecoin.

These are healthcare specific cryptocurrencies born from Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs.

Over on The Health Care Blog, my colleague Robert Miller and I have written an article analyzing financial returns of 138 healthcare ICOs.

The results are enlightening, but disappointing. Here are a few headlines:

122 healthcare ICOs are not exchange-listed
16 healthcare ICOs are listed on one or more exchanges
Of these 16, 5 show a positive financial return since the date […]

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The Second Annual Healthcare Blockchain Summit, Boston, June 11-12

Click here for more info. Use discount code 68 to receive $100 off.

Hope to see you there!

Vince

10th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, Denver, July 11/12

10th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference, Denver, July 11/12

This nationally recognized conference and exhibition focuses on technology-enabled consumer engagement and behavior change. Topics to be covered included innovative applications of remote monitoring, home telehealth, mHealth, eHealth, social media and gaming to help manage diseases, promote wellness and facilitate accountable care.

St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the Health Wonk Review

Head on over to Boston Health News to read the latest in health wonkery! Tinker Ready greets us with the St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the latest and best coming from the health care blogosphere.

 

 

Announcing the Inaugural eCollaboration Forum at HIMSS12!

 

Please consider attending the inaugural eCollaboration Forum taking place at HIMSS12 on Thursday, February 23, 2012 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Sands Expo Center.

 

Theme — Collaborative Platforms and Applications in Health Care

This is the Health IT industry’s first-ever event focusing on collaborative health platforms and applications! We take an expansive view of platforms and will be exploring the required technologies, business ecosystems, and clinical care delivery needed to achieve accountable care.

Speakers

Sponsored by HIMSS and Collaborative Health Consortium (formerly the Clinical […]

Heatwave Edition of Health Wonk Review

Check out the latest Health Wonk Review written by Julie Ferguson at the Workers’ Comp Insider blog. Cool down and review summaries of the best writings of the healthcare blogosphere. Thanks, Julie!

Pirate Talk With Mom

I just got off the phone with my mom.  She’s a young 85. Mom told me about the cataract surgery she had this morning and the patch over one eye that she came home wearing.

“So Mom, are you learning to talk like a pirate? …like ‘aye, matey’”?

“I baby?” she asked.

“No, aye matey’”

“I-80?”

“…er, never mind Mom…how’s Benji?”

Vince’s mom (sans eyepatch) and Benji

Incentive to Innovate: Giving Health Reform a Rocket Boost

by Scott Shreeve, MD

We are entering an unprecedented season of change for the United States health care system. Americans are united by their desire to fundamentally reform our current system into one that delivers on the promise of freedom, equity, and best outcomes for best value. In this season of reform, we will see all kinds of ideas presented from all across the political spectrum. Many of these ideas will be prescriptive, and don’t harness the power of innovation to […]

Great Lawyer Jokes

A friend sent me these in an email this morning and I could hardly stop laughing:

These hilarious exchanges are from a book called ‘Disorder in the American Courts’.

They were recorded verbatim and published by Court Reporters that had the torment of staying calm and remaining professional while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you […]

Engage With Grace

This wonderful project is written up in today’s Boston Globe .  Happy Thanksgiving all!

Vince

by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team

We make choices throughout our lives – where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. These choices are often a balance between our desires and our means, but at the end of the day, they are decisions made with intent. But when it comes to how we want to […]