Here’s an interesting partnership brouhgt to my attention by Randy Moss. Go to http://bcs.meetup.com/ put in your zip and see what comes up. MEETUP.COM PARTNERS WITH BREASTCANCER.ORG TO ORGANIZE LOCAL BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUPS October 29, 2004 (New York, NY) – Meetup.com, the Web site that helps people organize local meetings around any cause or interest, has teamed up with ...

We’ve been having a little background discussion among FICenter people of how the ACS might support the electronic health records (EHR) movement. Here’s a little hiccup we haven’t tackled: the cost. It’s really big, according to a recent study, and it may not be the panacea some hope for. Billions and billions of dollars for healthcare providers will be necessary ...

Wired News: It Works: Rural Health-Care Tech PDAs to do rurual health–sort of like C-Tools.

Here’s an article from the Washington Post about the increasing number of “medical tourists” going to India to get lower cost treatment. Just like other labor in India, surgeries can be done at a fraction of the price of the job in the US. Three months ago, Howard Staab learned that he suffered from a life-threatening heart condition and would ...