Remembering Uwe
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
The healthcare world learned with great sadness this week of the passing of our friend, Uwe Reinhardt. I met Uwe in 1982 at the Federation of American Hospitals meeting in Las Vegas. Uwe opened the meeting by apologizing, in his disarming German accent, for not being his usual sharp self. He had, he said, skipped breakfast because his wife May had instructed him not to pay for anything in Las Vegas that he could get for free at home. This was vintage Reinhardt, innocent and knowing at the same time. That meeting was the beginning of a long and warm friendship.
Uwe would have been acutely uncomfortable wi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What can digital health bring to small countries like Andorra?
Did you know that there is a country where life expectancy for women reaches 98.7 years and 89.4 years for men? Where companies and individuals have been paying income tax only for a couple of years? Where the national football team’s captain has collected more than 600 football shirts during his career? Yes, there is a country like that. It’s a micro-state between France and Spain called Andorra. Are you curious how I as The Medical Futurist ended up there and what digital health could bring for countries with less than a million inhabitants? Read on!
Digital health and Andorra – How did I get to one of the tiniest ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 3, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Andorra digital health digital technology Education gc4 Innovation small country Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Coming Together to Benefit All
I recently traveled to Israel for the 60th Anniversary Conference of the Israel Heart Society (IHS) in Jerusalem. The two-day conference gathered about 1,300 cardiologists from around the globe, including world-renowned leaders like Douglas Zipes, MD, MACC, and Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC.
While there, I co-chaired the ACC/IHS Joint Session with Chaim Lotan, MD, FACC, president of IHS, and Basil Lewis, MD, FACC, governor of the ACC Israel Chapter. Updates were given on the management of aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, clinical trials in PCI vs. CABG, mitral regurgitation, and the role of the autonomic nervous syst...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - May 3, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Administrator Tags: Membership CV Meetings Source Type: blogs
Public Awareness for CV Disease in Tiny Region Makes Big Impact
This post was authored by William Zoghbi, MD, MACC, immediate past president of the ACC.
Over the last few years, and especially last year during my tenure as ACC president, I had the opportunity to become greatly involved in the United Nations (UN) Summit on Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs). The ACC has partnered with the World Heart Federation, the European Society of Cardiology and the American Heart Association through the NCD Alliance to collectively advocate to the World Health Organization for inclusion of essential cardiovascular prevention and treatment targets after the first UN Summit on NCDs commenced in Sept...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - April 1, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Administrator Source Type: blogs
