Category Archives: Health Care

National Wellness Conference June 8-9

The Eat Well, Live Well, Let’s Move! Conference will bring together nationally-recognized speakers to deconstruct and help rebuild America’s understanding of obesity, nutrition and physical activity. This is an exciting time for intiatives that have been underway for years and are now receiving support from an array of sources, including the White House and First [...]

AMA Healthier Life Steps™ – The Health of Doctors Matters

The American Medical Association recently published two toolkits: AMA Healthier Life Steps™, for physicians to counsel patients, and Physician’s Health, a guide for physicians to pay attention to their own health, with a tool for them to use in consult with their own primary care physician. Together, the toolkits are intended to encourage a greater [...]

Actionable Data: A Redesign Leading to Healthy Behavior

Many of us are avid followers of TED talks and the visionaries who present their innovative perspectives. Now, TED has spun off a subset of topics focused on health care and calls it TEDMED. One notable TEDMED talk features Thomas Goetz, who looks at medical data reporting formats, making a bold case for redesigning them [...]

Health Care IT Update: HIMSS 2011 Conference

For those not directly involved in health care IT, HIMSS 2011 is the national conference, held in the Orlando Orange County Convention Center, February 21-24. By some accounts, the conference grew 20% over last year. That’s not surprising, considering electronic medical records and many other health care technologies are at the epicenter of the Affordable [...]

Molex Models Health Care and Technology Marketing Best Practices

Molex Incorporated, a global manufacturer of interconnect solutions, was one of the 2010 recipients of the BMA Chicago Innovation Award, for developing the Circular MT Expanded Beam Interconnect Solution. The connection device allows dramatic functional improvement in operating room surgical equipment. Several recipients participated in a BMA Chicago luncheon panel event to discuss their ventures in [...]