The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age. As an example, in a Blockbuster-could-have-bought-Netflix parallel, The New York Times reports that Intel could have bought NVIDIA in 2005, but the reported $20b price was considered too expensive.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Ageing and Health Health Policy 59

The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed a final time on March 24, 2005. She died at a Pinellas Park hospice on March 31, 2005.

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Ageing and Health Health Technology Health Policy 98

The Health Care Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the Congressional Research Service , the average age of House Members is 58.4 OK, about that: Statista tracked average age at hire of CEOs from 2005 to 2018, and the average age of CEOs rose from 45.9 Fortune confirms that the average age of Fortune 500 CEOs is 57; again, Baby Boomer territory.

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Ageing and Health Climate Change and Health Health Policy 98

The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

markets, overseeing large physician networks and other health systems, including so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that oversee the care of tens of thousands of attributed patients. The first occurred in October 2005 when I was diagnosed at 49 with advanced-stage bladder cancer. In the U.S.,

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Socioeconomic Status and Health Ageing and Health Health Equity Access to Healthcare 71