Inspiration to learn about yourself

Idea # 1 Make Wireless LAN available throughout the hospital. Idea # 2 Encourage each doctor and each nurse working at the hospital to use his/her LapTop computer at work – not least to show patients relevant blogs, wikis, and other websites, on which patients, themselves, can exchange knowledge with other patients, doctors, nurses, and other experts globally on how to become healthier.

To know more about how the church is involved in EURO 2008 , have a look at kirche08.eu , a joint initiative by the churches in Austria and Switzerland.

During the past few months, I’ve been following an e-learning forum at the University of Zurich focusing on e-assessment. You can have a look at the program, the presentations of the presenters, as well as the videos of the interesting meetings here . On Tuesday, May 20th, Mr. Bobby Elliott stopped by in Zurich to share his experiences. I was not least struck by this comment of Mr. Elliott: Memorisation is valueless when students are one click away from Google and Wikipedia. You can watch and listen to Mr. Elliott’s presentation, which is challenging status quo, by clicking here .

Have you thought about what a good room for teaching is? Get some inspiration in this 6½ minute video: I became aware of the video through shatinscience.blogspot.com

In this January 9th posting , focus was on changing the way people fly. You can find more on that topic by taking a lot at this 1½ minute video: Mr. Yves Rossy flies through the Swiss mountains with a jet engine powered wings on his back. You can read more about Mr. Rossy on his website www.jet-man.com

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Watching/listening to/reading this very interesting INSEAD Knowledge interview with Mr. Carlos Ghosn, I noticed not least this passage: "When you have a very diverse team – people of different backgrounds, different culture, different gender, different age, you are going to get a more creative team – probably getting better solutions, and enforcing them in a very innovative way and with a very limited number of preconceived ideas." On page 401 of the book Organizational Culture and Leadership by Mr. Edgar H. Schein, I read this: "The more turbulent the environment, the more likely it is that the more diverse organization will have the resources to cope with unpredicted events." "For diversity to be a resource, the subcultures must be connected and must learn to value each other enough to learn something of each other’s culture and language. A central task for the learning leader , then, is to ensure good cross-cultural communication and understanding throughou...

In this posting , I referred to www.zurichvitaparcours.ch , an interesting initiative by the company Zurich . The money to invest in the further development of healthy initiatives like this one - for example in and around larger cities where many people live - needs to come from somewhere. But from where? In an interview brought in NZZ am Sonntag of May 11th, 2008, Mr. Manfred Manser , CEO of Helsana , came up with some suggestions to improve health care in Switzerland. I noticed, not least, these two: Suggestion # 1: Allow parallel import Question in interview: "Um wie viel Prozent würde sich das Gesundheitswesen verbilligen, wenn die Schweiz Parallelimporte zuließe?" Answer by Mr. Manfred Manser, Helsana: "Die Gesundheitspreise sind hier im Schnitt 30 Prozent höher als im Ausland. Wenn wir die differenzierte, internationale Erschöpfung bei Arzneimitteln zuließen, würde dies pro Versicherten 2 bis 3 Prozent weniger Prämien pro Jahr bedeuten. Es ist längst klar, dass Par...

In this 1 minute video, Sir Ken Robinson talks about the importance of educating a new generation to be more creative. What do you think? You can get more information about Sir Ken Robinson on his website www.sirkenrobinson.com

I became aware of the video through the e-Learning Blog of Martin Ebner and via Heyjude .

On e-patients.net and on the blog of Ted Eytan , you’re encouraged to give your thoughts on what Health 2.0 is. You can get some more inspiration about Health 2.0 from Wikipedia here . A question for those of you with good knowledge about this: Do you have a couple links to interesting blogs of doctors or nurses who work, on their respective blogs, on involving people with different competencies - for example patients, dietitiants, sports trainers, physical therapists, employees/managers at pharmaceutical companies, employees/managers at life insurance companies, employees/managers at food and beverage companies etc. - in improving health care?

On www.schweizbewegt.ch , I read this: "Folgende Faktoren tragen dazu bei, dass sich die Gesundheit unserer Bevölkerung langsam, aber stetig verschlechtert: - Zu wenig Bewegung - Zu viel Medienkonsum - Unausgewogene Ernährung - Psychischer und sozialer Stress" Yesterday evening, I participated at City Challenge in Zurich – an event helping people to exercise more, i.e. do something about the above mentioned problems. Everyone who wanted to go for a run could join in and assist the city, at which they participated, in winning the City Challenge. The city recording the highest numbers of kilometres run by the people won the competition. Here are the results of yesterday's City Challenge in Switzerland: First place: Basel. 5,926 km. 2nd place: Zürich. 3,831 km. 3rd place: Bern. 1,662 km. 4th place: Geneva. 1,110 km.

A "FriedWald" is an alternative to a traditional cemetery. As the word indicates, the cemetery is located in the forrest. On www.friedwald.ch , I read this: "Die Bestattungskultur befindet sich im Wandel. Viele Menschen suchen eine naturnahe, freie Art der Bestattung. Mit dem "FriedWald" ist eine einfache und stimmungsvolle Bestattungsart gefunden, die zudem alle Voraussetzungen für einen Bestattungsplatz außerhalb der normalen Friedhöfe erfüllt. Die Asche des Verstorbenen wird in den Wurzelbereich eines Baumes oder Strauches eingebracht. Der Baum nimmt die Asche als Nährstoff auf und wird so zu einem Sinnbild für das Fortbestehen des Lebens und ist zudem eine sehr persönliche Erinnerung an den Verstorbenen." Photo source

Between 7 AM and 9 AM and between 4 PM and 6 PM there are, in many cities, traffic jams going out and/or into the city - not least because many people work during the same hours of the days. Result: Many people waste a lot of time sitting in traffic jams – time that could be used to work and/or get some exercise. Using a concrete example from banking, I have a couple of ideas to solve the problem: Idea # 1 To bank employees: How about teaching your customers - including your elderly customers - how they use e-banking (even better)? Also, what about using other collaborative technologies such as a blog or a LiveChat to communicate with your customers? That way, people can use the bank when they want and where want. And by using collaborative technologies, you can make the product you offer to your customers more individual. Idea # 2 Using e-banking, people can use the bank anytime and anywhere. However, many people still like to go to a bank located in a physical location. The problem f...