Comments on: Monday Morning Update 10/12/09

By: Auditing services india

Auditing services india — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Hi Carumba, I totally agree with you. It’s truely a .com model.

By: carumba

carumba — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:33:51 +0000

It’s a .com model. Non health people making simple unprofitable web sites thinking they are in business. Profitable vendors who sell them consulting and advertising convince them they are relevant/disruptive. Patients are nowhere to be seen and won’t pay for any of it.

By: JustBack

JustBack — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:15:54 +0000

I attended Health 2.0. Very disappointed…..and everyone I asked about their thoughts were also very underwhelmed.

The core group was a clique. The venue was terrible – and for the price, they should have had a better place than a train barn. Long narrow rooms with very crowded round tables with folding plastic chairs. The sound system was also terrible.

No real opportunity to meet people unless you grabbed them and introduced yourself.

Nothing mobile – well, almost nothing. No product differentiation. Who thinks people are going to log on to their laptops and enter data…especially grandmom.

Where is the revenue stream? Similar to fitness club revenue model.

Healthcare Unbound was far superior to this.

And to be a curmudgeon – many of these people are youngsters who know nothing about the reality of HIT.

Did like the Quicken for Health product demo – looks like a great way for people with lots of medical bills to keep track.

Missed the Jon/Glen session – they put that at 5:15 on the 2nd day – when a big group left for the airport. Lousy timing and if they thought it was the hook to keep folks…well…not sure it worked. Oh wait – probably half were from San Francisco, so they could stay.

By: Suzie, RN

Suzie, RN — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:45:15 +0000

It saddens my co-workers that investments are lopsidedly in technology rather than human resources. The outcomes of care would be at least as good if one third of the money being spent on the equipment featured on this blog was re-directed to human resources and care for the have nots. Nursing has been forced to veer off the road.

By: corpuscle

corpuscle — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:59 +0000

In Forbes, “Obama called it the “long overdue step of computerizing America’s medical records, to reduce the duplication and waste that costs billions of health care dollars and the medical errors that every year cost thousands of lives.” ”

Tullman advised Obama. Thus Obama would appear to be Tullman’s parrot. The patients are peasants whose care is being endangered by systems that have no proof or approval of safety. This has got to stop.