Category: Digital health

  • Avoiding mega hospital charges with retail clinics

    For Simple Care, Retail Clinics Are A Popular Choice Scott Hensley, npr.org If you’ve got the snif­fles or need a shot, do you go to the doc­tor or stop in at a clin­ic in a near­by drug­store? Lots of peo­ple are opt­ing for the clin­ics, which are spring­ing up inside gro­cery stores, big-box retail­ers and…

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  • How to wrangle control over your contacts

    Tech Trends: Tools for Managing Contacts John Brandon, inc.com TECH REPORT We tried out two basic CRM tools that help organize contacts—and stay in touch with them. I always thought cus­tomer rela­tion­ship man­age­ment soft­ware was strict­ly for sales­peo­ple. Recent­ly, I’ve been read­ing a lot abou… http://flpbd.it/fzw6u Related articles CRMs that have launched or been updated…

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  • Digital agencies learn to design culture

    How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Pic­ture this: you’re in a meet­ing in which your team is chal­lenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop cul­ture. Every­one at the table nods in agree­ment. Cul­ture! Yes. Impor­tant. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…

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  • Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

    Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Clin­i­cal Research Unit is an 11-year-old net­work of groups that coop­er­ate to track and pre­vent infec­tious dis­eases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…

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  • Ubi monitors home and chores

    A Computer You Can Talk To Monitors Your Home And Helps With Chores BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Ubi, a ubiquitous computer you plug into a socket, can do things like read you your email or tell you the temperature in the room. All you have to do is ask. You prob­a­bly have at least…

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  • Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

    An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Mea­sur­ing social influ­ence online is becom­ing a more sophis­ti­cat­ed, refined and gran­u­lar process. While the much-maligned early leader in the mar­ket, Klout, has scooped up a lot of head­lines over the past few years, there’s a bet­ter… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…

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  • David Byrne: ethnomusicologist and data pioneer

    David Byrne By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Octo­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/X9j9P Related articles This David Byrne Interview With Himself Is The Weirdest…

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