Featured Challenges, Searches or Forum Topics - MedTech I.Q.2024-03-29T06:52:31Zhttp://medtechiq.ning.com/group/telemedicine/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&xn_auth=no&featured=1U.S. White House Announces Awards of $795M for Broadband & Telemedicine Projectstag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-07-05:2140535:Topic:331332010-07-05T20:21:00.745ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br><p>From various sources ... On Friday, the White House announced $795 million in grants and loans for 66 new broadband projects across the country administered by the the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) ... The new broadband subsidies will bring high speed service to 900 health-care<br></br> facilities ...</p>
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... The funding is part of the $7.2 billion included in the 2009 federal…
Colleagues,<br/><br/><p>From various sources ... On Friday, the White House announced $795 million in grants and loans for 66 new broadband projects across the country administered by the the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) ... The new broadband subsidies will bring high speed service to 900 health-care<br/> facilities ...</p>
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... The funding is part of the $7.2 billion included in the 2009 federal economic stimulus package to expand broadband access nationwide. Friday's announcement brings the total broadband funds distributed thus far to $2.7 billion ... <br/><br/>To see abstracts on all 66 projects, read on at:<a href="http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/broadband-investments-boost-900-healthcare-facilities?page=0,1">http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/broadband-investments-boost-900-healthcare-facilities?page=0,1</a><br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC <br/> MedTech-IQ Featured in Businessweek/ComputerWorld ... "E-health & Web 2.0: The doctor will tweet you now"tag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-05-21:2140535:Topic:311012010-05-21T20:12:59.419ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>MedTech-IQ was recently featured in an article written by <em>Lucas Mearian</em> for <span style="font-weight: bold;">ComputerWorld,</span> and picked up by <span style="font-weight: bold;">BusinessWeek</span>, on the emergence of Health 2.0 applications. See excerpts from the article below ...<br></br><br></br>ENJOY!<br></br><br></br>CC<br></br><br></br>P.S. Also featured in the article are quotes from MedTech-IQ member,…
Colleagues,<br/><br/>MedTech-IQ was recently featured in an article written by <em>Lucas Mearian</em> for <span style="font-weight: bold;">ComputerWorld,</span> and picked up by <span style="font-weight: bold;">BusinessWeek</span>, on the emergence of Health 2.0 applications. See excerpts from the article below ...<br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/><br/>P.S. Also featured in the article are quotes from MedTech-IQ member, <a href="../../../../../profile/NealNeuberger?xg_source=profiles_memberList">Neal
Neuberger</a>, and reference to <a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/BertalanMesko?xg_source=profiles_memberList">Dr. Bertalan Mesko</a>'s excellent <a href="http://www.webicina.com/about/">Webicina,</a> Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Collection.<br/>----------------------------------------<br/>... When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines,
the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging...<br/><br/>... <a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/NealNeuberger?xg_source=profiles_memberList">Neal Neuberger</a>, executive director of the Institute for e-Health Policy,
said physicians connecting with patients via social networking sites is a fast-growing trend. A plethora of applications have also cropped up for devices such as the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9108338/Continuing_coverage_Apple_s_iPhone" target="_blank">iPhone</a> that allow patients to communicate with physicians or find medical services in their area. "There are literally hundreds of them," he said...<br/><br/>... Another force behind doctors' adoption of Web 2.0 tools is that EMR
providers are beginning to insert texting and videoconferencing tools right into their software, according to <a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ">Conrad Clyburn</a>, founding partner of <a href="../../../../" target="_blank">MedTechIQ</a>, an international content aggregation and physician collaboration Web site...<br/><br/>... "The task is so big that we're going to have to start using these tools
to solve the problems" associated with rolling out complex new health information technologies, said Neuberger, who is also chairman of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">American Telemedicine Association</span>'s policy committee...<br/><br/>... Clyburn said that about 45 vendors now offer blog
or microblog sites dealing with physician issues, some of the most pressing of which are the implementation of EHRs. Among the more popular sites are <a href="http://www.sermo.com/" target="_blank">Sermo.com</a> and <a href="http://www.webicina.com/" target="_blank">Webicina.com</a>...<br/><br/><p class="storybody">... The reason those sites are so popular is that most doctors tasked with rolling out EMR technology run small practices and have little experience with such implementations and have little or no IT staff, he said...</p>
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<p class="storybody">... As a result, smaller practices are leaning toward SaaS models for EMRs, such as <a href="http://www.practicefusion.com/" target="_blank">Practice Fusion</a>, which is a free offering, and <a href="http://www.nomoreclipboard.com/" target="_blank">NoMoreClipboard</a>. Both, Clyburn said, are "quite easy to use."..</p>
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<p class="storybody">... "This is going to be a very interesting space in the next couple of years," he said. "One of the trends we're going to see is a gravitation toward the low-cost solutions -- and I think that low-cost solution will be [a] software-as-a-service subscription model. Those lend themselves very nicely to online interactivity and patient engagement through messaging and the things we've become accustomed to in the cloud."...</p>
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<p class="storybody">Read on at:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="storybody">ComputerWorld</p>
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/347337/e-health_web_2_0_doctor_will_tweet_now/">http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/347337/e-health_web_2_0_doctor_will_tweet_now/</a><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="storybody"><br/></p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;" class="storybody">BusinessWeek</p>
<p class="storybody"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-20/e-health-and-web-2-0-the-doctor-will-tweet-you-now.html">http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-05-20/e-health-and-web-2-0-the-doctor-will-tweet-you-now.html</a></p>
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<p class="storybody"><em>Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at</em> <a href="http://twitter.com/lucasmearian" target="_blank">@lucasmearian</a><br/> <em>or subscribe to</em> <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/feed/keyword/Lucas+Mearian" target="_blank">Lucas's RSS feed</a>. <em>His e-mail address is</em> <a href="http://lmearian@computerworld.com/" target="_blank">lmearian@computerworld.com</a>.<br/></p> Daily Digest ... From the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Conferencetag:medtechiq.ning.com,2010-05-16:2140535:Topic:308852010-05-16T13:12:05.341ZCC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSighthttp://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/CCatMedTechIQ
Colleagues,<br></br><br></br>The ATA annual meeting started yesterday, here in San Antonio, Texas ... Here is a quick update on some of the happenings ...<br></br><br></br>... The <a href="http://www.tatrc.org/">US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)</a> held their annual Army Telemedicine Partnership Meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting was “<a href="http://www.americantelemed.org/files/public/meetings/ATA2010/TATRC_Agenda.pdf">Mobile Health (mHealth): The Use of Cell…</a>
Colleagues,<br/><br/>The ATA annual meeting started yesterday, here in San Antonio, Texas ... Here is a quick update on some of the happenings ...<br/><br/>... The <a href="http://www.tatrc.org/">US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)</a> held their annual Army Telemedicine Partnership Meeting. The theme of this year’s meeting was “<a href="http://www.americantelemed.org/files/public/meetings/ATA2010/TATRC_Agenda.pdf">Mobile Health (mHealth): The Use of Cell Phones for Healthcare</a>." The event explored the use of cell phones as tools for public health outreach medical surveillance and research, remote medical diagnostics, training and education. Fifteen distinguished speakers from the military, government, academia and the private sector shared their perspectives in this new and exciting area of telemedicine.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/welcome/index.html">UC Davis Health System</a> coordinated a <a href="http://www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3719">Telemedicine 101 Certificate Course</a>, providing a high level introduction to telemedicine and telehealth. This was our largest 101 course ever, with over 150 attendees!<br/><br/>Several other organizations held pre-conference meetings. The <a href="http://www.universalservice.org/rhc-pilot-program/">Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Rural Health Care Program</a>, <a href="http://www.hrsa.gov/telehealth/">Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT)</a> and <a href="http://www.arc.gov/">Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)</a> all met Saturday... <br/><br/>The full ATA 2010 Meeting and Exposition begins today... The exhibit hall—the largest ever—opens at 5:30pm... With the implementation of the HITECH Act, Healthcare Reform legislation and the emergence of new technologies, this portends to be an high impact meeting ...<br/><br/>You can follow the ATA 2010 on Twitter: @AmericanTelemed. The Twitter hash-tag for the meeting is #ATA2010. <br/><br/>You can also network and share knowledge on the ATA 2010 on:<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linkedin,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">atawiki</span><br/><br/>and, of course<br/><br/><a href="http://medtechiq.ning.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">MedTech-IQ</span></a><br/><br/>ENJOY!<br/><br/>CC<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/><br/>