Do Not Tweet Gentle Into That Good Night
A week and a half ago, Emma Keller wrote a column for the Guardian entitled, “Forget funeral selfies. What are the ethics of tweeting a terminal illness?” I have not read it. The Guardian took it down...
View ArticleLooking at the Core Curriculum from a Health Care Perspective
Yesterday, I attended a presentation on the use of tablets in health screenings. It is a project CHC has been involved with together with UConn and another health care organization and it is funded in...
View ArticlePromoting Empowered Wellness Through Spreading the Contagion of Creativity.
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit. I”m glad January is over. Let’s hope February will be better. I’ve been incredibly busy with issues at work and have had little time for writing or exploring new ideas. I did...
View ArticleRemission and Recovery
A few weeks ago,Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin dedicated his State of the State address to addiction. In every corner of our state, heroin and opiate drug addiction threatens us. It threatens the...
View ArticleHealth Equity and the 2014 CT Legislative Session
Last year, as a member of the Connecticut Health Foundation’sHealth Leadership Fellows Program the group I was part of mapped out plans for bring Health Impact Assessments into Connecticut policy...
View ArticleThis is
Recently, I attended the OMMA conference about videos at Internet Week. One of the best talks was by Gary Osifchin of Mondelez, the parent company of Honey Maid graham crackers. He spoke about their...
View ArticleThe Digital Church
In a recent online discussion, someone mentioned to me the idea that Christianity goes through a five hundred year trend of re-evaluation and remodeling. I was asked if I thought we might be at one of...
View ArticleAI, Health Care, Genomics, Fitness Apps, Mobile Apps, Social Media and Beyond
It was probably in the 1970s that I first read Richard Brautigan’s poem, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace. I grew up working with computers; I like to speak of myself as a digital...
View ArticleExpress Scripts, Mylan, and the EpiPen
According to CNBC’s article, Mylan can lower EpiPen price today, Express Scripts says, Express Scripts’ Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steve Miller told CNBC, “"If she [Mylan CEO Heather Bresch] wants to...
View ArticleNegotiating a New Distributed Digital Social Contract
I just boosted a post on Mastodon by @jon@social.lot23.com describing his experiences as a former designer for Twitter. The discussion about algorithms and reverse chronological posts is fascinating...
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