http://www.btw2.net/blog sharing the digital experience Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:43:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm doing my blogging at PortfolioLife. http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=177 ScienceRoll has a post titled Web Directories of Medicine and Web 2.0 which links to several other medical 2.0 blogs. And they note: What is the difference between medicine 2.0 and health 2.0? Walter Jessen has the perfect answer: Medicine 2.0 is science of maintaining and/or restoring human health through the study, ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=176 The part worth noodling on: ...The U.S. health-care system has two distinct parts -- financing and delivery. The financing system is how we pay for health-care services. It is composed of employer-based insurance, the individual insurance market, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, the veterans health system and other programs. Today, the private ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=175 The Arizona Republic has an article this morning about world weather records and who investigates them and arbitrates what are real records. It's not a weather record until he says it is U.N. taps professor at Arizona State to create global archive The purpose is to establish an authoritative tracking and record of ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=174 Today The Health Care Blog has a post - The Perpetual Health Care Crisis By Jeff Goldsmith. It begins: I began teaching health policy almost thirty years ago with Odin Anderson at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Like me, Odin was a sociologist, and one of his hobbies ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=173 ScienceRoll has a post - Personalized Medicine: The Future is Now which links to several news and announcement links. http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=172 Hannah Seligson blogs about how "the Siruis radio show Be Happy, Dammit gathered a dynamite panel to talk about work-life balance and how women can often be their own obstacle in the workplace." One quote is "that women magnify the importance of things. Her advice is to reprioritize." She links ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=171 The graying of the Web By Matt Richtel, The New York Times, September 11, 2007 via Cnet news.com Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=170 Kaiser Foundation study: Americans paying more for health care By Mark Schwanhausser, The Mercury News, 09/11/2007 There's only a bit of good news for workers and employers when it comes to rising health care costs: Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose just 6.1 percent in 2007, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=169 World Health Care Blog has a post about A Chicken vs. Egg Issue in Medicine A report yesterday indicated that there is a strange chicken or egg question about how at least one medical diagnosis is made. The issue is: Does the diagnosis precede the choice of treatment, or does ... http://www.btw2.net/blog/?p=168