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July 2009 Archives

Colleague Steve Roy recently paid a visit to MIT’s health technology symposium and shares some insights about the intersection of health and technology. As a veteran of health technology forums, last week’s MIT’s health technology symposium was remarkable – both for the passion of the stakeholders who believe health technology’s day has finally arrived and the absence of the change agents needed to make it a reality.
Here are 10 thoughts to stimulate the health engagement we all practice as individuals, community-members and enterprise leaders. They stem from yesterday’s inaugural CDC conference on obesity prevention and control, Weight of the Nation:
  1. Let’s put the ‘P’ back into the name of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says Dr. Tom Frieden, Director, CDC.