Here I sit in the Georgetown University Hospital surgical center while Don undergoes what hopefully should be rather routine surgery. He’s had some health challenges over the past decade and, unfortunately, is way more familiar with hospitals and surgical procedures than he should be. However, it is interesting to me that one thing has not …
Category Archive: Health Care
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Feb 15 2013
Telemedicine and NTCA Members
Today I had lunch with Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and we had a very enthusiastic discussion of how our two organizations can work together in the future. ATA is devoted to promoting the use of advanced remote medical technologies. The organization works with a diverse membership, comprised of providers, clinics, insurance companies and …
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Mar 28 2012
Connecting on Rural Health Care
Today we had the CEO and President of the American Telemedicine Association both come by to talk about rural healthcare policy and ways that our memberships can work together on broadband applications for “aging in place” and other health-oriented initiatives that will benefit from technology. We had some good take-aways from our meeting today including …
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Feb 28 2012
GHP Trustee Focus on Value and Flexibility
Our GHP Trustees wrapped up their planning retreat and quarterly meeting today, out here in chilly California. (It must be me who brings along the cool weather out west, but it certainly beats the blizzard in the upper Midwest that our friends are experiencing.) If there was a theme for this meeting, it was the …
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