New videos up at eOrthopodTV featuring Dr. Justin Paquette, a neurosurgeon from Los Angeles, California. Dr. Paquette specializes in complex spinal deformity. We discuss several topics relating to spine surgery including neck pain, artificial cervical disc replacement and flat back syndrome.

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Randale

What happens when you marry health care to Web 2.0? Health 2.0. Who knows if it will catch on, but it is the hottest buzzword around these days. You know if it has a Wikeipedia entry it has to be real. Well, maybe. OK, but what if it has its own conference? Still not convinced? Then maybe this article in The Economist will prove to you that this time consumers are ready to use the web to empower themselves in the Byzantine world of health care.

Health 2.0 may be the second coming of the online health care world - or it may be another bubble. Stay tuned to see which it is. My first foray in online health care during Web 1.0 was a blast. I hope this one is too. I hope that this time it’s sustainable.

Randale

Just finished reading the new Clay Shirky book - Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Unlike some of the other books that have been written on the subject, this takes the higher road and explores the impact of the Internet on community, organization and activism. This book is an excellent analysis of the major trends of the last decade and how the development of the Internet has dramatically shaped our vision of what is possible. Here is a video of a talk about the book given at Harvard’s Berkman Center. Clay Shirky is that odd mixture of geek (participant of the early Internet), academic (NYU) and consultant to the “Real World” (whatever that is…). He has a lot to say that I think is very relevant to those of us wanting to understand how to participate in the Internet “ecosystem” - today and into the future. Highly recommended!

Randale

A cottage industry has sprung up around the debate on the future of health care in the United States. As we move into the bona fide presidential campaign season, it shows no signs of abating. I have just finished reading Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement and found it extremely useful for understanding the evolution of health care funding around the world as well as the scope of the debate currently occurring in this country - “Single Payer” versus “Market Driven” paradigms. There are multiple practical and philosophical issues that have to be addressed to adequately grasp the debate itself, let alone to refine your thinking about which side you are on. This book clearly articulates both sides of the argument and the evidence for and against each side in an academic fashion while remaining accessible to all. If you want to get more - but clearly biased - background on the “Market Driven” side of the argument consider reading Who Killed Health Care?: America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure by Regina Herzlinger (the queen of the Market Driven movement) and Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results the academic treatise from Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg.

Our new service, eOrthopodTV has launched in beta. For the rest of 2008 we will be inviting a limited number of healthcare providers involved with musculoskeletal care to come to Missoula and spend a day in the MMG video studio. We pay all production costs - you pay your travel expenses. Any of you that have tried to do video production on your own know that while it may be easy these days to shoot and edit video technically, it is not easy to produce good quality video for your website. We have made it drop dead easy to get good video for your website and we will syndicate the video out to the web for you as well.

More information about how to take advantage of this offer is available on the eorthopodTV website.

Or you can always call the office to find out more. 1-866-721-3072.

Randale