Going to be an interesting day. I’m attending a conference at Stanford U entitled "Realizing the Promise: Early Detection of Cancer."  Pat Felts, Dr. Georjean Stoodt, and Dr. Cynthia LeBlanc and a cadre of California Division and NHO staff are here as well. The spark-plug for the conference is Dr. Lee Hartwell, ACS Professor, Medal of Honor winner and Nobel ...

Try as I might I can’t get June Chan into the habit of blogging on FISpace, so here’s June’s report by proxy. Dear Colleagues, here’s the latest update of Greater China activities. Best wishes, June Translation: ·    The pilot translation project with the Hope Society in Taiwan is in progress.  Currently, all five ACS materials had been translated and ...

About everybody feels it’s a good idea to convert paper medical records to electronic ones. Should be more efficient and, hopefully, accurate. The problem is it’s hell getting there. This article covers most of the problems. One problem is cost; the cost of systems and labor to convert records is prohibitive for small practices.One solution to this is to have ...

Anybody who has read what I’ve posted to FISpace will know that globalization is a preoccupation of mine. So it’ll come as no surprise that I immediately snatched up Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. I’d put this one on my “must-read” list for young careerists, parents, organization leaders…well, just about ...