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Follow up to FDASM

A few weeks ago we shared our friend Zen Chu's testimony at the FDA's November 2009 conference on Social Media. Today we ran across these slides, which do a little more to frame what Social Media and the FDA really means... Kind of.

Introduction to the FDASM

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The Conversation Prism

Check out the Conversation Prism. This display is great in helping to provide people with the knowledge and access to small tools that exist to them. Just apply this to healthcare, physicians, nurses, patients...

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

BrightCove Media

As you know, CIMITblog has been playing things pretty low key for the last month. This is because we are in the midst of switching over all of our media to brand new servers thanks to BrightCove.

So far, only our most recent post on Healthcare Delivery Reform is coming to you from the new BrightCove servers, but the rest of the media is in the process of being transferred and will automatically (tirelessly by hand on our side) transition to the new services over the next couple of weeks. Rest assured there will be no further interruptions.

BrightCove is helping us to enable full screen functionality, drastically improved screen resolution, provide users with embed codes and social sharing capabilities, and in a few weeks videos will be available on the iphone/mobile devices. Oh, and finally... It's cheaper for us. 

So, thanks for hanging around, we hope you enjoy the new services that will apply to all new publications of media, and soon for old publications. 

Best,

Mike

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What is the Physicians' Role in Health Reform?

Moderator: Ronald Dixon, MD, MA, Associate Medical Director, MGH Beacon Hill Internal Medicine Associates; Director, Virtual Practice Project, Massachusetts General Hospital

Doctors Without (Practice) Borders 

Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, President & CEO, American Well Systems

American Well has created an Online Care system that allows consumers to connect with physicians immediately, whenever they have a health need, from their homes or offices. The innovation uses advanced Web-based technologies and telephony to remove traditional barriers to healthcare access, including insurance coverage, geography, mobility and time constraints. Online Care is growing rapidly and is currently offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, OptumHealth (a business of UnitedHealth Group) and TriWest Healthcare Alliance.

The Journey to Improving the Delivery of Care

Gene Lindsey, MD, President & CEO, Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Forty years ago, visionaries recognized that the problems in health care delivery could only be solved by reorganizing the resources of and payment for health care in a way that optimally balances the needs of the patient for quality care with the needs of society more generally. Today, this same reorganization is needed, and it must be led by the providers of health care. These issues cannot and will not be solved by our federal or state government. Changes in the delivery of care can only occur by leveraging the talents of each person who works for a health care organization and leading them to look at health care from the perspective of the patient. The job of health care leaders is to create a culture and vision that engages their employees in making these important changes.

Panel Discussion

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