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The Week In Ideas

First: the new age of nanomedicine.  "This type of imaging verges on Star Trek territory." (Medical News Today)     
    Why not...   Embrace the emerging opportunities provided by molecular imaging and photoacoustic tomography to improve the management of high-risk patients with life-threatening disease?  And ask whether this technology would be additive to your roster or what it might replace.

      Next: artists and musicians will work for health care, exchanging their art for treatment.  An intriguing idea, though difficult to scale and not a long-term substitute for insurance. (Business Week) 
        You could try...   Replicating the O+ Festival in your community.  Or building an on-line exchange to connect artists with willing caregivers.
          Finally, overhauling the states' long-term care delivery systems using innovation roadmaps from the Center for Health Care Strategies. (Medical News Today) 

            What if...   Care was transformed by learning from the examples of a few pioneering, boundary-pushing states?  Ideas and roadmaps...what else do you need beyond a skilled facilitator, maybe?
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