For about 50.8% of the population*, this won’t shock you. Women – like the working mothers of young children profiled in this article – tend to be major multi-taskers.
It may not come as a surprise to many, but it is worth thinking about, especially for those of us in the business of trying to engage [...]

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Here’s a bit of an article that recently caught our eye:
“A growing movement of scientists and engineers is arguing that it’s time to rethink our assumptions about what an environment is, and to give our indoor environments the same scrutiny we give nature. When it comes to our individual lives, the indoor environment may be [...]

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I recently planned a birthday party for my six-year old son – then set out to do the invitations.
Eager to practice his classroom skills, my son insisted on handwriting and hand delivering the Phineas & Ferb themed cards to his schoolmates, and mailing them to friends outside of school. I sent e-mails or Facebook [...]

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Letting go — two very simple words that shouldn’t require much effort. Except for someone like me, who considers control one of my five daily food groups.
It started this weekend while back-to-school shopping with my daughter. We were looking at backpacks and I pointed out a Justin Bieber and really cute [...]

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Check out an interesting set of responses from bloggers, entrepreneurs, clinicians, and other healthcare leaders to this provocative question posed by Emmi Solutions:
“Is Patient-Centered Care a Buzzword or a Revolution?”
Here’s our response. We’d love to hear your take on the question, too.

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As we’ve discovered through our work with Engage With Grace, almost everyone has (or knows someone who has) an end-of-life story that didn’t align with the individual’s or their family’s values. To help ensure we all better understand, communicate, and have honored our end-of-life wishes, this year we are once again participating in  National Healthcare Decisions Day — which [...]

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Those of us responsible for keeping people on top of their preventive screenings are always trying to figure out how to encourage women to get their mammograms. Should we offer cash incentives? Sing them a little song? Or maybe paint the town pink?
So it’s incredibly frustrating to hear about situations in which someone is actually [...]

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The first week of Kindergarten can be tough.
On the parents, that is. There’s the stress of wondering whether our children will adjust to a new classroom; if they’ll remember to get off the bus in the right place; and of course, what to pack in their lunchboxes.

Yesterday a note from my daughter’s new teacher [...]

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Health Futurist and Eliza Health Reform Advisor Jeff Goldsmith, PhD. recently sat down with Eliza’s Alexandra Drane to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and yes, imperatives of health reform.
Check out this short preview of the discussion:

Piqued your interest? Request the entire presentation  (which runs about an hour).

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We often look to the world of consumer product design for inspiration when designing our own outreach.
So we read with interest a recent review in Wired magazine that singled out one new mobile device from the crowd. It wasn’t the phone with all the latest bells and whistles – it was the one with an interface [...]

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John Kroeker didn’t know it at the time, but a hitchhiking nun in 1978 changed the course of his life.
This doctoral student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell made an impulsive decision to drive the nun upstate to her ashram instead of going back to campus, and the conversation they had about meditation during that [...]

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There are times when you can help “make a difference” through technology and innovation, and there are times when you just need to roll up your sleeves.
When it comes to the latter, Eliza employees have been donating their time and energy to a variety of charitable causes – from outfitting orphanages to serving dinner at [...]

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100 brilliant companies. 10 smokin’ hot industries. And Eliza is one of them.
We are humbled to be named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Companies to Watch —and one of just ten featured organizations in the health care industry. Wow.

Of course, this distinction is due in large part to our incredible roster of partners – both [...]

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Puma City opened in Boston today.
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It’s a retail story/nightclub that follows the Puma boat in the Volvo Ocean Race around from Rio, to Boston, to Ireland and Russia — setting up shop and welcoming folks.
Oh yeah, it’s also made from recycled shipping containers and written up by design folks like Apartment Therapy and 2Modern.
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Lots of great [...]

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Aloft is a rockin hotel.
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They designed the whole eperience around what individuals staying there need.
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In a nutshell, it’s about designing an experience around your users.
Kind of hard to explain by typing in a blog.
Let’s let Alex narrate:
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There, now doesn’t that make sense — and don’t you want to stay there next time you have a [...]

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