Catching Up: Interesting Articles

As part of my efforts to start the new year, I’m cleaning out my inbox with all items I’ve tagged as possible blog topics.  Here’s the first list of things that caught my attention, but never made it into a story.

• A book that the coaches at Michigan recommended at sports camp – http://www.mindsetonline.com/index.html.
• A discussion on whether you can be Fit And Fat which I think gets at the BMI debate
• How emotion affects consumer behavior
• An article about the enrollment dilemma in healthcare
• A post on THCB about adherence (one of my favorite topics)
• HBR on Do You Think Your Customers Are Stupid (something I think happens in healthcare all the time)
• Why Google Health Failed (and I think they’re going to come back with the QuantifiedSelf movement)
• Health and TV (a topic with a lot of opportunities for discussion in how healthcare needs to embrace integration with this medium like engineering has done to become “cool” again)
• Global Lessons for Controlling Healthcare Costs article
• Making Apps Without Knowing Code (personal interest)
• Psychological Effects of Nonsexual Touch (something relevant to MD-Pt interactions)
• 7 Laws Of Innovation
• Diabetes Myths and Facts from the ADA
• Non-communicable Diseases to Cost $47 trillion by 2030 by the World Economic Forum (you can go download the study)
• The Immunizing Pharmacist (part of their evolving role)
• A DTC company that will negotiate your medical bills (at risk) – http://www.medicalcostadvocate.com/Default.aspx
• Healthy People 2010 Report (and yes the 2011 is probably out by now)
• You need to train your brain to learn from mistakes
• Article about consumer engagement which also tees up the topic of transparency
• Kaplan and Porter on the importance of starting with measurement to solve the health care cost crisis (video)