By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-28
This weekend I am attending the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I have been talking with friends about clinical trial information as I often do. Just today I was talking with Chuck in advocacy at work about supplies of drugs. He said that he had a report saying that about 80% of prescription […]
Posted in China, Consumer Reports, drug, India | Tagged industrial design, pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-12
Today Vint Cerf, Google’s “Internet Evangelist”, presented at Consumer Reports. He talked about the history and the future of the Internet. What he said was familiar to me but hearing it from him in the way that I suppose he has been performing continually for 50 years was a thrill. Vint Cerf is called one […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, encounter | Tagged Vint Cerf
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-30
I have been working at Consumer Reports for one year as of today. Our director Jim Guest sent me a a thank you letter today. What a great experience this has been. I feel like I am on the edge of accomplishing so much and that I am only waiting for an appropriate time to […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, New York City, work
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-18
I attended Consumer Assembly, which is the Consumer Federation of America annual conference. Their program gives the agenda of what happened over March 14-15. Elizabeth Warren, friend of the Consumer Movement, was opening speaker and encouraging of all the work we did. I went to sessions on mobile privacy and warning labels and attended the […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, presentation, rights, work | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-07
The NYSHealth Foundation (New York State) today hosted Alan Weil of the National Academy for State Health Policy to talk about health care reform strategies in the United States. I attended in the place of Chuck Bell, my colleague at Consumer Reports, because he was otherwise busy today. I hardly knew what to expect. I […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, presentation | Tagged reform
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-24
I arrived back from India on Saturday 16 February. Monday was President’s Day so I did not go to work. Tuesday I returned to work and prepared for the Choosing Wisely phase II press event. I had left Varanasi in good health but I think I ate bad food either at the airport or on […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, fundraiser