Thomas Shaw is an engineer and inventor who, according to the below reportage in Washington Monthly – titled “Dirty Medicine How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive” - has been battling to get his innovative medical products into the hands of hospital staff who want [...]

This very good Al Jazeera report gives one a good sense of just how high the stakes are with China’s healthcare reforms. “The Chinese government is launching a $125bn, three-year plan to reform its healthcare system, hoping to expand basic coverage to 90 per cent of the population. But in a country where less than [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble I received an article from, Paul Steele, a good friend who has been an Asia based professional educator for seven years, in a variety of environments, both corporate and scholastic. “One of your recent blogs talked about combining private schools and health care, which from the perspective of a hierarchy of [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble China’s parallel markets are familiar to anyone who’s done business here. For those who haven’t been on that adventure, China’s rural market is characterized by small mom and pop shops, outside bazaars where farmers sell all manner of goods,  local made products such as three wheeled vehicles fitted with tractor motors, [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble One topic of continuing interest to me is the ways in which new social media like Facebook, Twitter, and any other number of online services, are shaping how health care providers do business, and how they are changing the type of business hospitals are to become. Much like new Health 2.0 [...]