A Round-Up From Our Blog Roll

If it has been awhile since you’ve checked out our blog roll, you should scroll over to the right-hand column.  There are some great blogs on the list – including those run by Pioneer grantees.  Some thoughtful highlights from this week:

• We’ve discussed innovative ideas on how to cut health care costs before on Pioneering Ideas, including a recent post on reducing hospital acquired infections.  George Lundberg has a post up at The Health Care Blog about How to Rein in Medical Costs, RIGHT NOW.  Check it out and let us know what you think.
• Speaking of Innovation, Guy Kawasaki has a post up Why You Need Empathy to Be an Innovator, which links from his blog, How to Change the World, to a post at the American Express Open Forum by Matthew May. The article touches on why customer-centric design is so critical.  Do you need empathy to be an innovator? It’s a great question and one that is particularly relevant to innovation in health and health care.
• Triaging patients in their cars during an epidemic? Now there is an idea. Bradley Kreit talks about the recent simulated test at Stanford in his Drive-Through Medicine post on the Institute for the Future’s Blog.

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