September 2010
19 posts
WatchINVISIBLE CITIES: unfolding the cities secrets
Italio Calvino’s concept of Invisible Cities is reborn in this social networking visualization by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia.
page 149
“Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws...
WatchTHE NEW VICTORY GARDEN: so you want to be a locavore
Here some numbers to start with. Extrapolated from Ball Blue Books 1966 & 1974 for a family of four/six. Four kids?!
· 7.2 acres of land support
· 2,700 lbs of fruits and vegetables
· 900 quarts of canning
· 300 hours of food preparation
· 300 hours of canning
Via Mike Schaefer-Micro Farmer
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Eating undercooked foods may be hazardous to your health….
So the menu says at many a trendy seafood restaurant. If you are as much of a sushi lover as I am, you most likely brush off the warning and get your favorite raw sea creature anyway. However, as you can see from the map below, which shows food borne illness outbreaks over the past 20 years (normalized by population), those...
WatchKICKSTARTER: how to do a startup in 2010
Kickstarter an online platform for funding creative projects is busy supporting art, creativity and innovation. Diaspora looks to be a powerful project that pulled in $200k when asking for $10k. The context shown here is much different from doing a “business brief” to venture capitalists. If Diaspora is right in their thinking, this could be the start of...
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MAYO: the changes needed in health care
Nicholas LaRusso, director of the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, talks about how we need universal access, coordinated care, value and payment reform in health care in America. It’s an old video that is a good reminder of the areas of focus that will support care transformation
WatchMapping the Patient Experience
Experience mapping provides staff, patients, and physicians with a visual tool to understand and evaluate the total healthcare experience. The healthcare experience can be complex, experience maps support focus on four key touchpoints: personal interactions, technology, equipment and facilities. Such maps provide context to understand the nature of the current and...
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PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: healthcare is not a performance
JAMA 2007 Conclusion “Paying clinicians to reach a common, fixed performance target may produce little gain in quality for the money spent and will largely reward those with higher performance at baseline.”
The jury on pay-for-performance is still out. What is empirically known is that a strong physician...
WatchASPEN DESIGN SUMMIT: design thinking in action
Collaborative - diverse teams
Empathic - understand values
Integrative - align insights
Intuitive - lateral reasoning
Optimistic - nimble inquiry
Experimental - dynamic iteration
note: co-creation with end users is needed for transformation
WatchCROWDSOURCING: an app for saving lives
First Aid Corps, an organization working on helping the public respond to sudden cardiac arrests, has unveiled an iPhone app that can pinpoint the location of the closest Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) within seconds.
The database is just beginning to fill up but First Aid Corps has partnered with The Extraordinaries, a volunteer organization, to...
WatchOUTLIERS: create clinical practice transformation
Care givers transforming the way health care is experienced and delivered.
