On Tuesday, April 28, the National Consumers League held the finals of the 2009 National Lifesmarts Championship in St. Louis, Missouri. More than 22,000 consumer savvy teens representing 30 states competed at the national competition held to teach the next generation of consumers how to succeed in the marketplace in ways their parents haven’t.

Click below to view archived footage from the Semifinals and Finals of the competition.

LifeSmarts is an educational program that develops the consumer and marketplace knowledge and skills of teenagers. The competition begins online at the state level, where teens form teams and are quizzed at www.lifesmarts.org on issues ranging from personal finance and health and safety to the environment, technology, and consumer rights and responsibilities.

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NextGenWeb recently conducted a podcast interview with Dr. Gwen O’Keefe, Associate Medical Director for Quality and Informatics at the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, WA.

Group Health provides medical coverage and care to more than 580,000 residents in Washington state and North Idaho through Group Health Cooperative or its subsidiaries, Group Health Options, Inc. Group Health Cooperative began in 1947 as a community coalition dedicated to making quality health care available and affordable. Today it is one of the few health care organizations in the country governed by consumers. Its 1

Click below to listen to Dr. O’Keefe discuss how her organization is utilizing health information technology to improve health care for patients, including a program called the Medical Home Movement. The Medical Home Movement in particular has been found to advance societal health, and thanks to broadband, is becoming more prevalent throughout Washington State.

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Click below to watch archived footage from April 22 as the Women’s High-Tech Coalition (WHTC) featured Susan Crawford with the National Economic Council and Apple Senior Vice President Cathy Novelli at WHTC’s annual spring luncheon. The luncheon also recognized honorary co-chairs, Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Mary Bono Mack (R-CA).

WHTC is a non-profit organization that promotes the exchange of ideas among leaders in the public and private sectors whose focus is technology, innovation and the development of public policy related to technology. The event focused on the contributions Crawford and Novelli have made in both the public and private sectors.

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