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Technology & Innovation can check rising health costs

Technology & innovation can check rising health costs

By Joel White, Executive Director of the Health IT Now Coalition

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Added by Christine Stineman on June 22, 2010 at 9:40am — No Comments

Guest Blog: Don Jones, Qualcomm ... We're Shaping the Future: World Economic Forum on Advancing mHealth

Colleagues,

Please see first blog post from a good friend of MedTech-IQ, Don Jones, Vice-President of Business Development in Health & Life Sciences, Qualcomm ...

ENJOY!

CC

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 19, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

MedTech-IQ ... Who Are You? ... Where Are You From? ... What Do We Do?

Colleagues,

Every so often we have to take time out, take stock, and ask ...

Who are we? Where do we come from? What do we do? Does it matter? ....

So let's look at the MedTech-IQ community ....…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 15, 2010 at 10:45am — 2 Comments

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on June 10, 2010 at 9:41pm — 9 Comments

Turbulence Ahead in Health Care

The decade ahead is one likely to be full of turbulence. How everything will shake out is anybody’s guess.

But we can be sure that technology advancements will slow for no one. The rate of medical technology advancement now is very fast and the speed will only accelerate. One big problem is that technology advances so fast that there is no time for a purchase – say new CT scanner or diagnostic device in a clinical laboratory – to create any return on the investment before a new or… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 10, 2010 at 4:26pm — No Comments

WBT2011 Enlists MedTech - IQ

The WBT2011 will begin accepting on-line applications in July. However, we want to hear from you, the MedTech-IQ Community.

Innovators - What are the top innovations emerging in your industry sectors?

Strategic Partners - What are the technologies of tomorrow that WBT can bring to market today?

Added by Amanda Radovic on June 8, 2010 at 3:39pm — 1 Comment

Blue Oceans

Wow. Who would have thought that Apple would dethrone Microsoft in the category of market capitalization. They did just that! For Apple 'followers', who have always seen Microsoft through some Manichean prism, this event takes on religious proportions. For the rest of us Apple admirers (who don't rely on anti-psychotic meds to get through the day), however, this is noteworthy for what it reveals about… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on June 7, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Guest Blog: Electronic medical records and its rushed implementation ... Kevin Pho, M.D. | KevinMD

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As many of you know, Kevin Pho, M.D. is one of social media's leading physician voices on evolving technology and its impact on medical practice ...

... Please see his recent cautionary blog on the U.S. EHR adoption initiative. In particular see the "comments" that follow the blog ...

... They point to an important debate that is emerging between physicians accustomed to robust EHR systems (Kaiser Permanente, VA, Mayo, ect.) and small and solo practice… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 3, 2010 at 6:44am — 2 Comments

New Video for MedTech-IQ ... Ron Merrell & Telemedicine, Regenerative Medicine, mHealth, Simulation, Health IT, International Health

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to provide you with the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", please see new videos for your information & illumination ...

ENJOY!

CC

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Telemedicine: Dr Ronald Merrell ... VCU Telemedicine

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on May 31, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Kudos to TATRC ... Annual Report 2009

Colleagues,

Often I bring to your attention, medical technology developments deriving from investments by the military medical research community. Frequently, it has been my experience, that military medical research will push the envelope in ways that develop whole new capabilities that we all end up benefiting from ....

.... Recent examples would be the leadership role Department of Defense research has taken in teleradiology, clinical telemedicine, surgical robotics,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on May 20, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Cut Health Care Costs With Prevention

On May 12, 2010 the Harvard Business Review ran this post of mine on their web site. The original is at http://tinyurl.com/2vnpato

Prevention is the key to both better health and lower health-care costs over the long haul. This is where the nation — and each of us as individuals — needs to put energy and resources. In the long run, it is more important than addressing the high cost of new technologies and drugs or their inappropriate… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on May 14, 2010 at 2:20pm — No Comments

Leapin' Androids

Following up on Conrad Clyburn's post earlier this week, read eWeek's analysis of the current leap in sales for the Android platform, and projections for its future competitiveness in the "smart-phone" marketplace.

PS. No sooner do I digest the above, than…

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Added by Clymer/JR on May 13, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

HealthSaaS, Inc. releasing online vertical suite of condition and disease specific Personal Health Records (PHR)

HealthSaaS today announced they are releasing an online suite of condition and disease specific Personal Health Record (PHR) services. The first to be released is PainPHR http://www.painPHR.com

DiabetesPHR and SportsmedPHR will be available later this year. BreastcancerPHR and ProstatecancerPHR will be made available in 2011.

Alan Paget, CTO of HealthSaaS.net states, “Each PHR will have its own unique attributes as every condition or… Continue

Added by Frank Ille on May 10, 2010 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Calls on the Cheap

Like the PC mag article states "No one should be paying for long-distance calls anymore". This piece is simply a good review of the various offerings out there, most of which simply require a broad-band connection, and utilize VOIP. THERE ARE NO BAD CHOICES!

Added by Clymer/JR on May 7, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Further Disruptive Trends in Medicine

Generally we prefer calm seas but often they don’t get us anywhere. We need disruptions, transformations to make the changes necessary for real progress in medicine. Sometimes it is a new technology; sometimes a cultural change. But then a refinement may occur. The refinement may not seem like a “disruption” but indeed it can be because the refinement may create a demand for change. Here a few more disruptive changes or refinements that are leading to disruptions of the old ways.… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on May 4, 2010 at 7:39am — No Comments

With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?

With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?

* By Kevin McCaney

* Mar 11, 2010

Should the Defense Department be making use of public social media sites such as Facebook, or should DOD, for security reasons, build its own?

Paul A. Strassman’s recent column arguing that that DOD’s social media policy doesn’t do… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:46am — No Comments

4 Facebook lessons from DOD

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4 Facebook lessons from DOD

Agencies need to learn some rules of the road before jumping into social media

* By Fred Wellman

* Apr 21, 2010

Now that both the White House and Defense Department have established social media policies, more organizations are certain to leap into the fray and launch social networking sites.… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:39am — No Comments

Cloud Interoperability Will Connect Agencies, Constituents

As public sector organizations evaluate cloud services as a way to consolidate IT infrastructures, scale systems and enable innovative Open Government services, technology vendors…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray PowellDuring last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad …

Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell

During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak,… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 9:52am — No Comments

Disruptive Changes Are Coming to the Delivery of Medical Care

The following was an invited post on Harvard Busines Review web site last Friday.

We have grown accustomed to scientific research producing major medical advances such as those I wrote about in The Future of Medicine — Megatrends in Healthcare. But there are now some very disruptive changes coming in how medical care will be delivered by your doctor or hospital.

Some examples:

Team-based care for chronic illness. The combination of an aging population and… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 25, 2010 at 4:42pm — No Comments