I just read an article on the Economist summarizing a study conducted by scientists from Clemson and Yale that details strategies for vaccinating large populations. This new research disputes the long held notion that protecting the individual is the best way to combat a virus. An idea that goes against the current practice of vaccinating those [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 26th, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Tagged with: advice, CDC, children, doctors, Economist.com, flu vaccine, H1N1, research, Spanish Flu, strategy
An article in Time points to a pilot healthcare program called Prometheus that seeks to cut costs by putting doctors on a budget. Set to launch in January of 2010, the radical model will be used to calculate insurance coverage for 80,000 workers in Rockford, Illinois, attempting to reverse the existing incentive-based system that drives [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News on July 7th, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Tagged with: budget, cutting costs, doctors, efficiency, healthcare, innovation, insurance, patient care, prometheus
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.