In the fourth episode of the fourth season of Mad Men, ad man Don Draper has a brief dust up with a consultant. She’s just completed her analysis of a focus group on women’s attitudes about cold cream...
Category - Inertia
Thanks to my friends at the National Business Group on Health for brightening my day!
Fast Company left their door open a crack, so I snuck in with a quick piece on the science of procrastination and what we can do to get past it. Check it out here.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is what economists like to call a non-cooperative game. That means someone wins, someone loses, and the payoff for one player’s choice depends in part on the choice made by the other player. For...
On the HIT Consultant website, James Dias posed the question, “Is the Phrase ‘Patient Engagement’ Overused?” It’s an interesting question, I suppose. But there’s a much bigger issue at hand...
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: a week or two after making those New Year’s resolutions. About half of us make resolutions, but by various measures most of us will have abandoned them by the Fourth of...
The NY Times reports a growing concern that women may be overusing statins, the go-to class of medications for lowering the bad type of cholesterol (LDL). Although there were early concerns about whether statins did more harm...
A recent article in Health Affairs reports that Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) improved medication adherence slightly, but cost more money than it saved. Note: VBID is geek speak for cutting copayments for medications that...
Yesterday, digital health company Healthrageous announced that it was closing its doors and selling off its assets to an unnamed “innovative healthcare company.” Mary Beth Clark, who was the interim president and CEO...
Wired.com reports on serial entrepreneur Ev Williams’ talk at the XOXO Fest in Portland: “The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience,” [Williams] said. “Convenience...
