Monthly Archives: June 2009

Defying the Odds: How One Man Recovered from a Stroke with the Help of His Family

June 30, 2009 in Uncategorized

In August of 2004, guitarist Jason Crigler suffered an AVM brain hemorrhage while performing at a concert in Manhattan. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors gave Jason’s family a grim prognosis: “Even if he lives through the night, there won’t be much left of the man you know.”

Life.Support.Music. is a feature-length documentary about Jason’s recovery which will air on PBS’ POV series on July 7, 2009. The film, which ran at New York’s Cinema Village movie theatre, has screened at dozens of local and international film festivals, picking up several awards and earning rave reviews. “Heart-wrenching and inspiring,” says The Boston Globe. “Incredibly powerful,” says VOX Magazine. Click here to visit the film’s web site. Click here to find your local PBS station.

Jason and his sister Marjorie have developed a powerful multimedia presentation that explains how and why Jason recovered. Using video footage of Jason’s rehabilitation taken by hospital staff and drawing on their unique, personal experience, they show how intense family involvement makes the difference in a positive recovery. Click here to see Jason and Marjorie Speak.

PROGRAMS:Defying the Odds: How One Man Recovered from a Stroke with the Help of His Family
In this 45-60 minute multimedia presentation, Jason and Marjorie share their insight into the mindset that enabled Jason’s recovery from a devastating brain injury. Providing both survivor and caregiver points of view, Jason and Marjorie show the many ways in which their attitudes made the difference in surviving—and even benefiting from—an extreme crisis. This inspiring presentation includes a Q&A session and a brief musical performance by Jason.

Defying the Odds for Health Care Groups
Jason and Marjorie deliver a 45-60 minute multimedia presentation examining the various factors that helped Jason recover from a brain injury when most of his doctors said it couldn’t be done. Offering both survivor and caregiver points of view, Jason and Marjorie’s presentation is practical, educational and incredibly inspiring. The presentation is followed by a Q&A session and a brief musical performance by Jason.

Defying the Odds Screening & Speech
This presentation begins with a screening of the award-winning documentary Life.Support.Music., which chronicles guitarist Jason Crigler’s recovery from a brain injury with the help of his family. Following the screening, Jason and Marjorie deliver a 30-minute talk with a Q&A session. The presentation closes with a brief musical performance by Jason.

Testimonials

I am the attending physician in charge of Jason Crigler’s rehabilitation from brain injury. His remarkable recovery has reshaped my own medical practice. His inspiring story caused me to give everyone a chance for multidisciplinary rehabilitation and reevaluate various factors that can influence the outcome. It is my sincere hope that every practitioner in post-acute care hear his story or watch the movie about his recovery.
Heechin Chae, MD, Medical Director, Brain Injury, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA

Life.Support.Music. should be required viewing for all who work with brain injury survivors and their families. Jason’s remarkable story humbles those of us who try to predict recovery. It reminds us that we still have much to learn about the power of hope and the brain’s ability to heal itself.
Christopher Carter, Pys.D, Director of Behavior Medicine, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA

I have decided to do my community rotation in an area that focuses on brain injury. I also want to work with TBIs [traumatic brain injuries] and rehabilitation when I graduate. I was having a hard time deciding where I wanted to focus my nursing practice, and your story was like a revelation. In short, I want to thank you for helping me find my path. I will continue to update you about my nursing practice so that, as time goes on, you can see how far the ripples of your story have spread.
Lee Anna, nursing student, Asheville, NC

 

 

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Ron Galloway on health Care

June 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

Wal-Mart & The Future Of Health Care

From in-store health care clinics to eyeglasses, from flu shots to urgent care, Wal-Mart has its designs on leveraging its 3700 stores into the largest force in American healthcare. How does this affect you and your industry? 

Will Wal-Mart become the largest referral source in medicine through their in-store clinics? Will Wal-Mart “Mom and Pop” certain specialties into economic hardship? How will Wal-Mart’s plans for a “Healthcare Data Card” affect physician providers? 

Ron’s one-hour presentation “Wal-Mart & The Future of Healthcare” addresses these questions and more, and is food for thought for you face a new competitive force on the horizon.

Rebooting Healthcare

Rebooting Healthcare is directed by Ron Galloway, the director of the provocative documentary Why Wal-Mart Works, a film which made news worldwide and had its premiere inside the U.S. Capitol Building.

Rebooting Healthcare examines these issues through in-depth conversations with the leading thinkers and prime movers involved in the healthcare field. Through a structured series of questions the film offers what amounts to a macro comparative study of the thoughts of the most influential people in healthcare,  the very people whose opinions and policies will shape the decisions that will influence the lives of all U.S. citizens.

Rather than pushing a particular point of view, the film will let the viewer draw his or her own conclusions based upon the data presented. The goal of the film is to present as much data as possible within the feature documentary structure. The film has no sponsors and is internally financed.

Trends In Electronic Medical Records

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is one of the areas of most intense interest in healthcare this year, due in large part to attention paid to it by the new administration. Nearly $19 billion in tax inventives are being directed to EMR adoption by hospitals and physicians.

In this presentation, Ron takes a look at 3 trends that are converging to dramatically affect this area of intense interest. First is the emergence of open source standards (OSS) in EMR software. Companies such as Microsoft and other software vendors are pushing proprietary formats for records, the analogy being the “.doc” standard in word processing. Open source advocates, including Google, are pushing for a single open standard for EMR files. Billions of dollars are at stake. Who has the advantage? Will the VA’s Vista format prevail?

The second major trend in EMR is the reconciliation of privacy standards as regards the individual records themselves. How does HIPAA apply? How do individual state regulations inhibit or help the adoption of EMR? Who owns the records themselves? Are they the intellectual property of the hospital, physician, or patient? As Personal Health Records (PHR), as inplemented by Google and Dossia, increase in popularity will there be a conflict between PHR’s and EMR’s?

Finally, Ron will examine the role of semantics, or “tagging” of information contained in the records, and the huge part this overlooked component of EMR 2.0 will play in the coherence of EMRs, and the reason why tagging may ultimately be the driving factor in the growth of the EMR industry.

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Ron Galloway Director of Documentary “Why Wal-Mart Works & Why That Makes Some People Crazy”

June 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

Ron Galloway

Ron Galloway

 

Ron Galloway directed the noted documentary film “Why Wal-Mart Works & Why That Makes Some People Crazy,” an Ayn Randian look at Wal-Mart which premiered inside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. 

He is a frequent public speaker whose presentations include a variety of business topics, notably regarding Wal-Mart and innovations in business technology. Ron is the lone conservative on The Huffington Post.

Ron is a graduate of Georgia Tech and was an investment advisor and analyst for nearly 20 years. In a feat of optimal timing he retired from investments in 2004. 

Ron has been featured on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC’s World News Tonight and The Daily Show. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and New Yorker magazine. 

Future Money: Virtual Currencies & Payment Systems

Money is a medium of exchange. The exchange is still taking place but the “mediums” are rapidly changing. From stored value cards, to mobile device payments systems, the very nature of money is changing. The “QQ’” a virtual currency in China, is so popular it is having an effect on the money supply. A $195 million dollar bank run occurred inside a video game. Google, Paypal, and Amazon want to be your wallet. Ron examines these new forms of “Future money” and assesses their impact on our financial system.

Boxed In: Competitive Threats to Financial Services Firms

From Wal-Mart to Google, Paypal to Amazon, more and more businesses are leveraging information technology and distribution to enter the retail financial services industry.Assets are the name of the game in financial services, and there is increased pressure as financial service firms, “non-bank” banks, and now retailers are leveraging their existing distribution “footprints” to grab more of the pie.

For example, if just 5% of the people who walk into one of Wal-Mart’s 4000 stores in one week opened a $3000 deposit account in a “Wal-Mart Bank,” the company would raise $22 billion that week alone. Wal-Mart withdrew their ILC application, but GMAC, Merrill Lynch, and Target all have ILCs. The assets of all ILCs chartered in Utah are 12 times the assets of all Utah banks, S&L’s and credit unions combined. 

Meanwhile, Paypal and Google have developed payment systems that do a complete end-around the traditional banking system. All the while hedge funds use their huge, unregulated pools of capital to draw assets away from banking. 

Find out how you can compete with the overwhelming distribution and resources of these emerging threats in this presentation.
 
The Top 12 Tech Trends Of 2009 & How You Can Benefit From Them

The past year has brought forth startling changes in technology. You can shake your iPhone and it will recommend restaurants near your physical location. Have your DNA analyzed for $300 and find out if your prone to cancer. 250 million people in China use virtual cash instead of Chinese currency. Online news sites are destroying the newspaper industry. Cars talk to you. The Amazon Kindle is changing the way we read and buy books. Google can predict flu outbreaks faster than the CDC. 

It’s a brave new fascinating world out there, and in this 60 minute presentation Ron Galloway looks forward to 2009 and predicts the top technology trends and how you can adapt to, and prosper from these new innovations. For example, will Twitter become a primary tool for communicating? Will artificial intelligence “bots” manage and trade funds for traders? Will cable companies adoption of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) allow you to have their own low cost cable channel that customers can watch and communicate through? Will debit cards contain member healthcare information? Will the mobile phone finally become your “wallet?” 

Ron is a graduate of Georgia Tech, writes on technology for the Huffington Post, and revels in all things nerd. “The Top 12 Technology Trends For 2009 & How Credit Unions Can Benefit From Them” is a fun, informative, forward-looking presentation that will have your attendees talking for quite a while.

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