done within the existing legal frame work or we need to at least change the payment system rules? and the way i m approaching it is i m working then exactly as sue has talked about with the fortune 500 companies and with the unions and that s what we re announcing today the bps council the ceo council, we will be taking the self-insured and in that context, build a collaborative of providers across this nation, install this system, but on one condition, this collaborative will also work with the underinsured and the underserved. and now we will bring evidence-based 21st century care to cancer patience in beverly hills or south central california and doctors can do what they do best, i.e., provide the best care. [ applause ]. let me just say and in theory, we should be able to bring it to any country in the world, right? correct. if we have one of the things that our foundations involved in is this remarkable effort to the rwandaen government asked us to undertake.
and although the op rablt and sharing of data doesn t yet exist freely, there are other great things that are happening. so, you know, we re just in our company we ve avoided hundreds of thousands several hundreds of thousands of unnecessary tests, unnecessary because they were duplicates. we ve all been in hospital environments when a physician walks in and is looking for a result of a test that he or she ordered and the result isn t there, what do they do? they order another test. and we re able to avoid that. we re able to avoid medication errors. maybe the wrong dose or even the wrong medication or at the wrong time being given to patients. so these are really important innovations and improvements in safety and quality in hospitals that are being driven by this technology. everything patrick described is possible and i think it will occur. but i think we need to give it a little time. let me ask you this i know you can say whatever you re going to say but i wan
operating system that currently talks to any software, whether it be epic, and it now is running 3 million cancer lives for the past three years, across the pathways, across the delivery system and we know in real time. we have built a software system that actually takes 10,000 cancer protocols and provides for the doctor in real time the knowledge of which cancer protocol to give to the patient in real time. it s now in 8,000 oncology practices. with regard to technology, it is the job, actually for us is to actually make this health care system, where he makes money where patients don t come into the hospital, where we actually have patients at home, i call this icu at home, which means, eye see you at home. you need icus at home. and then this whole world of machine to machine technology is upon us. it s right here. so i partner with verizon and at&t and i built an electronics company that could have boxes that could talk to each other. blood pressure machine, pulse moni
started on august 28, against all odds. basically we have done this for a year now and we see healthy kids and kids they care about the land and kids that are learning about the garden and starting a farm on their campus. i think it goes back to each one of us had a passion and we each realized that we had a purpose and that our voices were just as powerful as anybody else s and why not you go i think for my daughter and i, our motto is dream and do, and we teach that to every single student we work with. if you can dream and do something realistically to change the world, you don t have a choice. so, deborah, right out of the box symphony of the soil. can you talk about the state of our soil? what is, what did you learn from this film? what did you bring through in the film? what is happening with soil? and if you could talk about the world congress of soil, where you just spoke last week? one of the interesting things, i could not have told anybody about soil before a
[gavel pounds] hello, welcome to tonight s program at the commonwealth club of california. our program for tonight food fights for the 21st-century first century. women s voices driving change. we have the executive director of moms across america, the founder and executive director of teens turning green and our host and moderator is the ceo of tech talk studio. now i m going to turn it over to christy dames. thank you. thank you to the commonwealth club. we really appreciate being here tonight. i am really excited to have these really powerful women. some are moms. some are not. my first question to deborah garcia. you have two major award-winning films. you re quite the vocal activist and speaker. you have a famous husband, jerry garcia. how did you come to make films about food? you have been a film maker for a long time. in 1970 when i was in college, i started making food, and because of that era, activity land, going natural about that, i became vegetarian, bec