By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA In Part 1 on Healthin30, “Guy Kawasaki Jumps the Curve with Enchanting Insights to Empower,” Kawasaki offers insightful tips to help companies succeed. Whether the company is a start-up, health care technology company, pharma company, medical practice, major health care organization, or a leading company listed on Forbes, “enchanting” insights can help different types of businesses (and people) thrive. Through Kawasaki’s journey, he offers insights for people to “see…
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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Part 1 Guy Kawasaki referred to himself as a “Bozo” during his keynote address at the Health Tech Next Generation Conference this month in San Francisco. Speaker, author, former chief evangelist of Apple, founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, and founder of Alltop.com, Kawasaki engaged his audience with humor and humility. Don’t Let the Bozos Grind You Down One important lesson which appears at the end of Guy Kawasaki’s…
Read More...Latest Post on KevinMD: Chronic disease management through mobile health
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA A recent post I wrote on telehealth is published on KevinMD, “Chronic disease management through mobile health.” Full Story> Full Story>
Read More...A Brilliant Reason to Dive Deep into the Social Media Health Space
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Recently, I had the pleasure of being surrounded by brilliant health care thought leaders. First, I delivered a social media presentation at the Eyeforpharma conference. Secondly, I sat in the audience at the Social Communications and Health Care 2011 conference to listen to others present on social media, and participate in a round-table discussion on social media. It’s clear from the personal discussion that followed with folks from the…
Read More...Telehealth, the Nucleus of Patient Care
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA — “Telehealth, the Nucleus of Patient Care” is published in Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). [Update: July 6, 2011 – Complete article may be found at the end of this post. Reprinted with permission.] Here is a selection from the article: Why is telehealth slow to be adopted in the health care arena? “Adoption to telehealth has been slow because healthcare professionals are still not accustomed to…
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