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Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning

Not very organized today, so you'll have to put up with a few random things catching my eye...

1.  Distrusting their government's message on nuclear safety, Tokyo residents self-organize and go looking for radioactive hot spots.  Guess what they find?

Watch this "self-organization" trend.  It's coming to a health care neighborhood near you.  Maybe they'll self-organize into a booster club for your current business model...though I wouldn't bet on it.

2.  The Regenstrief Institute (IN) launches an initiative to encourage innovation, naming John Duke, M.D., the Institute's first Innovation Officer.
"We are encouraging everyone associated with the Institute to come forth with ideas. Traditionally researchers develop ideas and then pursue funding. Learning from successful organizations such as Google, Facebook and Netflix, we are both accelerating and democratizing the idea process. We are encouraging everyone, from established researchers to fellows-in-training to software developers to research assistants to affiliated clinicians to let us know what they think has potential," said Dr. Duke, an internist and informatics specialist.
Democratizing the idea process.  I like that, having once worked with a hospital CEO whose idea of innovation was "I think big thoughts.  You do what I tell you."

3.  And Dr. Westby Fisher asks what would a doctor's version of Occupy Wall Street look like?
"Must doctors accept the pervasiveness and intrusiveness of the inside game in health care? If they didn’t, I wonder what doctors’ placards might say?"
Whatever they say, I'll bet the spelling improves (though not the handwriting.)

4.  Mother Jones' Kevin Drum  says the future is brighter than you think.  (Thanks for the heads-up to LongForm.org's "weekend reads for wonks.")

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