Welcome to the Pulse 3.8: April is Minority Health Awareness Month and this week, we will discuss the differences in health concerns and care for minority populations. It’s important to recognize that each ethnicity and race faces different threats to their health – and icyou provides videos that educate people of all backgrounds. On Dr. James Haney’s channel you will find videos discussing health concerns facing the African American population. He focuses mainly on the serious, often life-threatening affects of cancer, AIDS and kidney disease. Not only are there varying health concerns between populations, but there is rising concern over the patient care and medical attention paid to minority groups. South Carolina-based doctor and icyou contributor Dr. Thaddeus Bell has a mission to decrease health disparities by providing information to underserved populations. On his channel, you will find information about his organization, “Closing the Gap in Health Care,” and how he works to inform others and improve healthcare for minority groups. Dr. Haney and Dr. Bell both speak mainly of health concerns in regards to the African American population; however, there are plenty of videos on icyou that target other groups. On icyou you’ll learn about the link between Alzheimer’s disease and people of Latino descent. In this video, hear a patient and doctor discuss the earlier onset of Alzheimer’s in Latino adults and why it is sometimes difficult to reach the diagnosis. The …
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The Battle for Healthcare Information, held in New York City on April 3, 2009, is the fifth national war game championship organized and run by Fuld & Company, the global leader in competitive intelligence. In this public war game event, four top business schools predict the most prominent companies in the healthcare information technology and healthcare delivery industries will quickly move to create alliances and in certain cases merge with their rivals, to take advantage of the government push to adopt electronic medical records (EMRs). Teams assumed the identity of four major healthcare icons simulating and stress testing their anticipated strategies to determine who will profit from the adoption of EMRs. The Obama administrations injecting billion to kick-start this nascent electronic medical records industry just gets the players moving. It is no guarantee you will see universal adoption of electronic records in healthcare anytime soon. The teams included: Columbia Business School Microsoft MIT Sloan School of Management McKesson Northwesterns Kellogg School of Management Kaiser Permanente University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Business Allscripts MITs team, simulating the McKesson strategies, won the war game competition based on four criteria: the teams strategic insight, accuracy in presenting McKessons strategy, creative ways it expressed McKessons culture and goals, and finally, its ability to project their strategic vision into the future. Last …
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