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There’s a new name for creating a permanent channel of TV-like broacasting that runs entirely on the internet: slivercasting.

I’ve been talking about ways of coping with health care costs. Here’s another twist: telemedicine. …a growing number of people monitoring their vital signs through "telemedicine," which allows health care providers to perform checkups by video. The technology can be as basic as the kiosks Wilson uses, which transmit blood pressure and weight readings to a remote facility monitored by ...

Funny how things coincide. I mentioned in my post on the BioAgenda Summit that drug prices were a big topic of discussion. One idea for bringing costs down was giving consumers more information about drugs so they can make decisions about the relative merits of drugs and their costs. Then this morning in my local paper there was an article ...

Sarah is doing a great job blogging the SXSW (whatever that means) conference she’s attending. I admire that; I’ve never been able to write coherently about what I’m listening to. So I’m reporting about 2006 BioAgenda Summit after the fact. I might subtitle the meeting: The Conference of Conundrums. One of the themes running throughout the meeting was the religious ...