We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are going now—with the economy wheezing, doctors bailing, chronic disease rising fast, boomers sliding out of the Viagra years into the Depends years, reimbursements getting squeezed ever tighter, Medicaid sputtering on fumes, and 30 million or more new people soon swarming our doors with insurance cards—if we don’t pull a rabbit out of a hat real soon now, we’re in serious trouble.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Microsoft’s Gates, Baidu to Start Global Health Alliance
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates and Robin Li, chief executive officer of China’s most popular search engine Baidu Inc., said they will form a global alliance for public health.
The first initiative by the alliance, between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s richest charitable fund, and the Baidu Charitable Foundation, will be a program encouraging smokers to quit the habit, the foundations announced at a press conference in Beijing today.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
UK not realising the innovation potential of its £236B public procurement
In 2009-10, public procurement in the UK was valued at over £236 billion, or approximately 15 per cent of GDP. The government is the single largest customer in the country. This magnitude of expenditure provides enormous potential to stimulate innovation and encourage economic growth – a potential which, according to the Committee, is not being realised, in its report, “Public procurement as a tool to stimulate innovation."
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