Healing the psychological scars of trauma with the Peter C. Alderman Foundation – Video

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Over one billion people in the world have directly experienced torture, terrorism or mass violence. Survivors are often left with lifelong mental disabilitie...

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Health care diplomat Lois Quam's new role seems natural

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Lois Quam, a Minnesota native, former UnitedHealth executive and health care adviser to the U.S. State Department, has been named chief operating officer of the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Va. (Courtesy of Nature Conservancy)

After a long career shaping health care policies at both the private and very public levels in Minnesota and Washington, Lois Quam has found another project: helping heal the planet.

At least that's what she sees as the mission of the Nature Conservancy, the organization she joined last week as chief operating officer. She will be based in Arlington, Va.

Quam was a longtime UnitedHealth executive and oversaw significant growth at the Minnetonka-based health care giant. During those years, she also worked on public health care initiatives, from chairing Gov. Rudy Perpich's Minnesota Health Care Access committee, beginning in 1989, to working with then-first lady Hillary Clinton in 1993 on the President's Task Force on Health Care Reform.

In 2011, she reunited with Clinton, then secretary of state, at the U.S. State Department, and also worked with current Secretary John Kerry leading global health initiatives across a number of organizations.

In an interview last week, on her second day at the Nature Conservancy, Quam described her new role. Her answers were edited for clarity and consistency.

How does your health care work translate into your new job at the Nature Conservancy?

"Illness is related to pollution, unsafe water; and protecting the land and water that our lives depend on is one of the effective ways to help us stay well.

"I've always tried to find a better way to do things: How can we find better or more effective ways to protect our land and water?

"I like finding those gems, those really good ideas. I like taking good ideas and bringing them to full potential.

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Our healthcare system is excellent but..

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Health care at government hospitals is cheap but the other services are a let down.

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By T Hanuratha

Healthcare in Malaysia, without doubt, has undergone tremendous positive changes compared to ten or fifteen years ago. Government hospitals are now the pillar of the nations health care system which guarantees cheap and affordable health services.

A check with the Health Ministry website revealed that there were 150 big hospitals in the country, for a population of 30 million.

Historically, health care in Malaysia has undergone fundamental transformations since the countrys independence with medical care transforming gradually to meet the medical needs of today.

Although, the number of private hospitals in Malaysia had increased, providing world class health care services, the charges imposed by these private entities could be mind boggling.

This is another reason why the Malaysian masses converge at government hospitals for their health care needs. They need not fork-out thousands of ringgit for a simple surgery at the government funded hospitals.

Primary health care costs is a mere RM1 for outpatient treatment and RM5 for specialist care. And this includes obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians. Senior citizens need not pay a single sen for health care.

While all these policies and the way the system operates had brought benefit to Malaysians, there are several areas which need to be looked into, especially at government hospitals.

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Cloud Software, Big Data, Virtual Teams, Outsourcing, Future of Law Firms Keynote, Futurist Speaker – Video

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Futurist Michael Tchong Tapped to Kick-off the IT Procurement Summit

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Winter Park, FL (PRWEB) April 13, 2014

The 19th Annual CAUCUS IT Procurement Summit is slated to have futurist and entrepreneur Michael Tchong open its three-day show on Sunday, Oct. 19, in Savannah, Ga., at Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa.

Tchong, best known for his startups MacWEEK, Atelier Systems, CyberAtlas and ICONOCAST, as well as for being the founder of Ubercool, will discuss one of his many topics, such as Social Revolution: How Social Media Are Reinventing Our World, I Want to Tweet You Up, Ubertrend Introduction, Social Engagement Marketing, Improve Insights and Champion Innovation. Founder of CAUCUS Joe Auer explains, Tchong speaking on the future of technology is the perfect guy to get the juices flowing and kick off the event.

Tchongs work has appeared in numerous publications and he has been a guest on TV programs and networks including Access Hollywood, Advertising Age, Bloomberg TV, BusinessWeek, CNET, CNN, The Independent (U.K.), the New York Times, PBS, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Wired.

The 19th Annual CAUCUS IT Procurement Summit is a greatly anticipated and significant industry event tailored specifically for the technology acquisition professional. Every year, the conference brings together top subject-matter experts in technology procurement, strategic sourcing, and contract and vendor management. This peer-to-peer conference is a forum for sharing up-to-the-minute ideas and industry best practices. The conference includes multiple tracks covering key topics in software, negotiations, vendor management and telecom, among others. These tracks allow you to participate in the sessions most related to your position.

For more information on the 19th Annual CAUCUS IT Procurement Summit, go to http://www.caucusnet.com/conference/ or call 407-740-5600.

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Morgan Spurlock begins second season as CNN's 'Inside Man'

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PASADENA, Calif. Documentarian Morgan Spurlock has focused his cameras on everything from the fast food industry to education. The new season of his CNN series, Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, will deal with such broad topics as celebrity, futurism, pets in America, income inequality and college athletes.

Long before the public gets to see his work told through a serious investigative look accented with his dry sense of humor the process starts with an idea.

When the show got greenlit for a second season, we already had a list of things that we wanted to talk about. Its stuff we pull out of the headlines, newspapers, news reports, magazines. You name it, Spurlock says. We have a list of 10 to 12 ideas that we say to the network that they are the ones we are thinking about.

The network selects ideas they like. Then Spurlock and his team pick the ones they want to do. Once theres a general agreement, research starts to flesh out the ideas. The eight topics that show the most potential go into production.

He knows his stories will be seen around the world through the global news channel, but the one key element he keeps in mind when selecting topics is finding stories that primarily impact an American audience. Many people told him that a story on immigration in the first season of the CNN series didnt affect most Americans, but he showed how it touches the country by looking at the food a person buys.

What I wanted to do with this series is to get people to connect the dots to see how they are affected by these stories, Spurlock says.

It was 10 years ago that Spurlock made national news with his Oscar-nominated film Super Size Me, a documentary about the ill effects he suffered eating a diet of only McDonalds fast food. His first TV series was as executive producer of the FX series 30 Days, where he embedded himself with his subjects for a month. Spurlock also directed the 3-D concert film One Direction: This Is Us.

Once the ideas are in place whether it be for film or TV the final product will almost always be different than what was originally discussed.

When I was making Super Size Me years ago, a filmmaker friend of mine gave me some advice. He said if the movie that I end up with is the exact same movie you envisioned from the beginning, then you didnt listen to anybody along the way, Spurlock says. Whenever we film an idea in a perfect world if everyone had rainbows and unicorns it would work out the most perfect way possible.

Then you start shooting and everything gets thrown out the window because everything you have written down doesnt happen. Things go in a very direction so you have to go with the way the story takes you.

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