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Adam: Great speech, as always. We are with you!!! Thanks for helping all of us keep the momentum — and reminding us it is the CONSUMER (CAREGIVER) who is the REAL priority — and, who has RIGHTS in the matter!

Fred-

Thanks for the summary. I think you’re right that “the path to understanding is being blazed as we speak”. Part of the problem over the years has been that we were not certain what we would like to build as an alternative to what we have. But certain concepts like Home-Centered Health Care and the Lifespan Planning Record (LPR) have begun to take shape leveraging the capabilities and potential borderless connectivity of new information technology. At the National Commission for Quality Long Term Care, we just released a long awaited report which included as one of the 5 major sections an endorsement of Technology to advance, humanize and support relationship based care for older Americans. As chair of that sub-committee, I prepared a thought piece. Here’s the link. (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc3ppvhb_60cw5zqd ). It suggests that we need to think more expansively about reform to leverage technology for all it’s worth. Thanks again for the Conference Report.

Mike

I would have been curious to hear more from Berners-Lee but it sounds like the usual from Revolution Health (a company that is continuing to have a cash burn rate like it was 2001) and Adam Bosworth (giving yet another nice speak about how healthcare is broken for the 800th time in the past 3 years).

Social community as the killer app in healthcare? Seriously? No wonder Revolution Health doesn’t want to talk any hard numbers.

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