Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Healthcare Blogs

At this evening's IHI meeting, Jonathan showed how blogging can be used as a tool to stay up-to-date with developments in the health care domain. He created a file that you can use to import these blogs into Google Reader so you can read them at your convenience: google-reader-subscriptions.xml. The list of blogs is as follows:

Health-related

Health Affairs Blog – Health policy blog that contains critiques of the Obama/McCain health plans (http://www.healthaffairs.org/blog/index.php?feed=rss2)

Health Care Industry – Explains business concepts of healthcare
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/bnet/healthcare)

Health Care Renewal – Addresses threats to health care's core values (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default)

Health Management Rx – Comments on health management (of course) and patient care processes of the future. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/HealthManagementRx)

Medgadget – Source of new medical innovations/inventions (http://www.medgadget.com/atom.xml)

ScienceRoll – Written by a Hungarian med student who is interested in genetics and Web 2.0 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Scienceroll)

The Health Care Blog – Conglomeration of numerous promoters of Health 2.0 (http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/rss.xml)

WSJ.com: Health Blog – Up-to-date information about health-related news (http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/health/feed)

Not health-related

Lifehacker – Contains tips and downloads for getting things done. (http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml)

TED Blog – A best of the best blog. Their annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. (http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/atom.xml)

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Welcome!

Welcome to the IHI blog website. We have created this as a portal for those who are interested in learning more about the IHI movement and as a newsletter for those within the group. We hope to use it often to communicate with members, promote opportunities for improvement, and solicit participation in IHI activities. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the group, please contact IHI-support@umich.edu.