A tale of two cities: eHealth and Consumer Health World

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Report on Two Conferences by Bill Crounse, MD, of Microsoft

eHealth — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:59:36 GMT

In a recent post on the HealthBlog, Bill Crounse reports on the eHealth Canada conference and the Consumer Health conference providing an interesting contrast and comparisons. Both emphasized the consumerism movement in healthcare as is it exhibited through

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C.A. Chien, M.B.A. — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:58:05 GMT

"CHAPEL HILL, N.C. � An engineer in North Carolina has filed a patent for a new medical-care system that he says would be a good business fit with the Minot area. C. Alex Chien said Wednesday that Minot has the technology, transportation and environment to host a prototype �medical onshoring� clinic ..

.. Chien�s project focuses on the thousands of Americans who seek lower-cost medical care overseas each year. He is proposing to bring those services to America, or �onshore,� by establishing clinics on American Indian reservations. The clinics would be served by medical providers from Asia and Europe who are accredited by the Joint Commission International .."

For more detail --

http://medicalonshoring.blogspot.com/search?q=

/s/ C.A. Chien

hsiehfucheng@gmail.com

re: A tale of two cities: eHealth and Consumer Health World

hlthblog — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:32:20 GMT

C. A. Chien

Thanks for your comment and sharing information with my readers. It sounds like an interesting idea.

Bill Crounse, MD

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sully — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:52:12 GMT

it's always interesting to see how robotics will integrate into medicine