February 2009 Blog Posts (30)

Kenya Collaborations Sought

HELP will be performing field needs assessments in rual and metro locations in Kenya in March and/or April 2009. We are looking to establish a network of telemed clinics connecting rural under-served populations to metro hospitals in Nairobi. Special focus on disease migration/mitigation, general clinic and disaster/emergency response and situational awareness/understanding systems.

We are looking for collaborations on biomedical informatics, telemed devices, satellite, cellular and… Continue

Added by Randy Roberson on February 9, 2009 at 11:41am — 2 Comments

9 Web sites IT pros should master in 2009

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

As reported in the New York Times...Here's a time-saver...9 Web sites you need to study during the next 12 months. Master these sites, and you’ll be able to innovate with the best of them.

1. Linked In

Forget Facebook. LinkedIn has become the de rigueur Web 2.0 site for IT professionals.

2. Google Apps for Business

Call it what you like - software-as-a-service or cloud computing -… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 9, 2009 at 10:54am — 4 Comments

Into the Abyss, Into the Light: Innovation at a crossroads in America

Colleagues,

A message from Rohit Shukla, CEO, Larta Institute & MedTechIQ member, in LARTA VOX...To subscribe to LARTA Vox: http://www.larta.org/VOX/SubscribeToVOX.aspx

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Things are not as bad as they seem, nor as good as they should be.

By Rohit K. Shukla, CEO, Larta Institute

Much of our collective energy has gone into discussing, arguing about, fretting and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 7, 2009 at 7:51pm — 1 Comment

Google & IBM launches Google Health, where users can manage their medical history information and connect to their medical devices

Google Health is a site where users can store and track information about their medical history, and connect to and stream data from medical devices. In demonstrations, IBM and Google fitted Wi-Fi radios to gadgets like heart rate monitors, blood pressure cuffs, scales and blood-sugar measurement meters, allowing the devices to communicate with a PC and feed real-time medical information directly into Google's online records.

Hooking up those devices to the Web, IBM argues, will offer a… Continue

Added by Viil on February 5, 2009 at 2:31am — No Comments

$20B for the EHR in the current congressional appropriations bill cut to $5B

Probably just of passing interest to those interested in clinical informatics...

Gerry Higgins
Chief Innovation Officer
MedStar Health

Added by Gerry Higgins on February 4, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Natural orifice surgery--kidney removed through vagina

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7867837.stm

Added by Greg on February 4, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

$252 million - Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA)

Colleagues,

There is a significant funding opportunity to bring to your attention.

1. Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

Basic information is as follows:

- Estimated Total Program Funding: $252,000,000 (ceiling)

- Programmed Funding: $162,000,000

- Title#: W911NF-08-R-0013

- Initial Proposals due: 23 February 2009

- Evaluation and Negotiations: March-May 2009

- Final… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 2, 2009 at 11:35pm — No Comments

January 2009 OnBioVC | Life Science Venture Capital Trend Analysis Now Available

Colleagues,

Hot off the press! The January 2009 OnBioVC | Trend Analysis study is now available for download (HERE). The free .pdf works hand-in-hand with OnBioVC.com to identify what entities have received funding, where they are located, what technologies and indications are attracting investment and who provided the funding, the data is then aggregated and base-lined against prior… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 2, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Hospitals of the Future: Technology Innovation vs. Business Model Innovation

Listed below are excerpts from yesterday's NYTimes article: Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/business/01unbox.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Successful business models are moving more toward pay for wellness vs. pay for acute or chronic treatments. It's not going to be "The Hospital of the Future", more likely, "the patient-centric… Continue

Added by Lance M. on February 2, 2009 at 2:45pm — No Comments

A long but thoughtful essay on 'fixing' the ship, or rather flotilla, of US Healthcare

Atul Gawande writes in the New Yorker:

American health care is an appallingly patched-together ship, with rotting timbers, water leaking in, mercenaries on board, and fifteen per cent of the passengers thrown over the rails just to keep it afloat. But hundreds of millions of people depend on it. The system provides more than thirty-five million hospital stays a year, sixty-four million surgical procedures, nine hundred million office visits, three and a half billion prescriptions. It… Continue

Added by Greg on February 2, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments