RFID in healthcare

Leading health care providers are using RFID to achieve real benefits today—Learn how you can too!

The RFID Journal is according their website The world's RFID authority. I got an email today from them telling, the RFID Journal will host its second-annual RFID in Health Care event, co-located with the 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management.

RFID in Health Care is the one event where you can hear from health care providers and leading early adopters share real-world case studies that reveal the business benefits of RFID technology.

You can download a with detailed information about the event from this location. Wive all the speakers here.

This is probably not "the only event where you can hear real case studies from companies that are using RFID" but you can learn what it could be good for:

• Improve patient monitoring and safety
• Increase asset utilization with real-time tracking
• Boost revenue with automated billing
• Reduce medical errors by tracking medical devices
• Enhance supply-chain efficiencies
• And so much more!

Learn How to Cut Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes! Plus, meet the leading technology companies and see their latest solutions.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn how hospitals and health-care providers are using RFID today, and gain valuable insights into how to move from one-off applications to an infrastructure approach to RFID.

Lead more from the Journal.

Jobless Rate Highest in 14 Years - NYTimes.com

Jobless Rate Highest in 14 Years - NYTimes.com: "Gloomy enough was word from the government on Friday that a fresh 240,000 American jobs disappeared in October, the 10th consecutive month of retrenchment. It brought the toll of lost jobs to 1.2 million for the year — more than half in the last three months alone — while the unemployment rate climbed to 6.5 percent. Worse was the sense that little could be done near term to alter this now-accelerating trajectory."

Helge: I've seen estimates that the unemployment rate could climb over ten per cent, a double of the present situation

NYT: President-elect Barack Obama, speaking at his first news conference since winning Tuesday’s election, sounded resigned to inheriting a starkly troubled economy when he moves into the White House next year. “It’s not going to be quick, and it’s not going to be easy to dig ourselves out of the hole that we’re in,” Mr. Obama said, calling for swift passage of spending measures aimed at stimulating the economy, including another extension of unemployment benefits.

Helge: There is no quick fix! I agree.

NYT: But while experts said this could soften the damage, it was unlikely to change the fundamentals. They said the economy would probably lose several hundred thousand jobs a month well into next year, taking the unemployment rate to near 8 percent — a level last seen a quarter-century ago. “The economy is slipping deeper into a recessionary sinkhole that is getting broader,” said Stuart G. Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh. “The layoffs are getting larger, and coming faster.”

Helge: 25 years ago unemployment rates came to over 8 per cent.

The health care industry, mining and public schools were the only sectors that showed more than modest growth last month. Otherwise, losses were deep and broad. Manufacturing jobs shrank by 90,000, construction by 49,000, retail by 38,000 and the financial industry by 24,000.

Helge: I understand the importance of wellness and healthcare as a job provider in the future. The same applies to our country.

The outlook is troubling in part because a new atmosphere of tightness in American banking could prevail for years, say analysts, crimping economic growth. Economists tend to think in terms of a natural cycle of commerce, with businesses investing aggressively when money is abundant, pulling back when times are lean, then jumping back in when fresh opportunities emerge. This time the money may be particularly slow to return.

Helge: What will be the survival model if money isn't available for businesses to invest and grow? Are we going to see very new business models with growth potential without big investments? Is new kinds of service and wellness industries emergin and rising?

NYT: The number of unemployed Americans leapt in October to 10.1 million — the largest number since 1983.

It's Not a Lecture Blog

It's Not a Lecture: "About This Blog 'Companies and the mainstream media grew accustomed to being the only ones speaking, much like a lecture format. Today, it's a discussion, and it's happening in real time.'

This is a quote from blogger Mark Nickolas in an interview about the influence of blogs for a Business Lexington column. This blog is dedicated to examining how businesses, organizations, and the government are abandoning the lecture and entering the discussion online.

Helge: Learned about David Wescott today when he started to follow my Twitter.

This is a personal web log written by David Wescott. David is a public affairs professional specializing in issues-based online communication and outreach. David has developed and implemented online outreach strategies on issues such as health care, education, energy, the environment, feminism, and housing finance. He works for a global firm and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He also writes 'Living Locally, Working Globally' for Business Lexington.

David has also worked as a legislative assistant to a US Senator and as an administrator for a pediatrics department in a public hospital.

The opinions expressed here belong to David and only to David -- they are not necessarily shared by his employer."