Featured Blog Posts – November 2009 Archive (23)

The AllHumanity Group: A Global Humanitarian Network

AllHumanity Video

The AllHumanity Group is leveraging state-of-the-art social networking technology to achieve significantly improved connectivity…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 30, 2009 at 7:22pm — No Comments

Is Peer Review Broken?

Colleagues,

As published in GenomeWeb News please see excerpts from this provocative and thoughtful essay on the counter intuitive nature of using a "subjective" peer review system to judge the most important elements of an "objective" field such as science ...

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.... It is a fundamental irony of science that a field created for and by people who… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 30, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

BfA blog: Broadband Adoption is Critical for Healthcare Advances

While most of the discussion over public health these days surrounds the Congressional debate over health care reform, there are a number of advances in health care that have already been made, and could be further implemented with an increase in broadband access and adoption.

High-speed Internet access creates several advantages for both doctors and their patients. Patients can create a personal health file online that can be accessed by their primary doctors, specialists or… Continue

Added by Christine Stineman on November 30, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

BOOK OF THE WEEK

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

by Gregg Jaffe and David Cloud.

The book is a fascinating insight into today's Army, written by Gregg Jaffe and David Cloud. Jaffe is the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 30, 2009 at 10:53am — 1 Comment

How to Quantify Connectivity & Networking “Success”

Please see the link below for one example of how to measure the impact of an individuals publications, scientific collaborations, partnerships, scholarly output, quality of work, etc. The criteria used here is based on the network of collaborations that result, how many people one works with or brings into his or her specific arena of research (“Integrated semantic community platform). Clearly, the impact of a scientist’s work is more than simply the number of Google “hits”!.…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 28, 2009 at 10:15pm — No Comments

New Recommended Reading ... Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges

Colleagues,

Please see below a video review by John Caddell, author of the "Customers Are Talking" blog, on Andrew McAfee's new book (November 2009) "Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools For Your Organization's Toughest Challenges." I think this is one of the best of a new genre of books on "Web 2.0", and how it can be interactively used to advance business "Global Brand Identification, "Thought Leadership", Collaboration and Communication.…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 26, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Happy Thanksgiving ... From MedTech-IQ to You & Yours

Colleagues,

As the U.S. members of MedTech-IQ enter the Thanksgiving season, please accept our best wishes for a peaceful and prosperous year ahead. This past year has been one of serious challenges. But, we are all still here and kicking.

Continue to fight the good fight ... Don't let "them" get you down ... Do let your family and friends know how much you appreciate them ... Eat Food ... Not too much .... Mostly plants… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 25, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

How to improve healthcare services with Visual Communication Technology

Mirial, the company providing visual communication software platforms I work for, recently released a whitepaper called "An interactive Visual Communication Architecture for Telehealth", focusing on how to design, engineer and deploy a best-practice interactive visual communication architecture for Telehealth services.

I think this document is quite interesting because it describes not only the technical aspects but also many evaluation and planning activities needed… Continue

Added by Cristoforo Mione on November 25, 2009 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

It was 20 years ago today....

Yes indeed. I remember it well. 22 November 1989 (10:15 AM). My first of six Congressional testimonies. Waxing poetic on the sorry state of Federal preparedness and response to disasters (this was just after both the catastrophic earthquakes in Armenia and San Francisco (Loma Prieta or "World Series" quake). If I had to give the same testimony today, there would be very little that I would change. Sad. But true. But it was the first real break in my "disastrous" career:…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 23, 2009 at 2:12pm — No Comments

For Younger Members of MedTech-IQ ... White House Fellowship Applications Available 1 January 2010.

Colleagues,

Thank you to MedTech-IQ member, Elihu El El, for the link...

Founded in 1964, the White House Fellows program is one of America's most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government.

Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 22, 2009 at 12:53pm — 2 Comments

Interactive e-learning in Medicine - A study.

Small study on use of interactive e-learning in Medicine

Technology used- live interactive webcasting using a scan converter, mixer, and…

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Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on November 20, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips

Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips. [Science Daily]

New methods of studying avian influenza strains and visually mapping their movement around the world will help scientists more quickly learn the behavior of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus, Ohio State University researchers say. The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available isolated strains of the H5N1 virus --… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 19, 2009 at 9:26pm — No Comments

Congressional Hearing Investigates H1N1 Preparedness, Vaccine Production

Congressional Hearing Investigates H1N1 Preparedness, Vaccine Production and ...[ABC News]

It is a very complicated process," Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Nicole Lurie said at the House Energy and…http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/h1n1-virus-congress-examines-response-vaccine-distribution/story?id=9115167… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 19, 2009 at 9:19pm — No Comments

Operational Medicine Institute (OMI) at Harvard Medical School

The Operational Medicine Institute

The Operational Medicine… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 14, 2009 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Welcome to the Official ALLHumanity.TV Blog

Welcome To AllHumanityTV

$2.4 Billion To Fight Killer Diseases

6:48 PM | Posted by Eric K. Noji, M.D. | Edit Post

Friday, 13 November 2009, 9:17 am

Press Release: United Nations

UN-Backed Global Fund Awards $2.4 Billion To Fight Killer… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 14, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Disasters: Introduction and State of the Art

Epidemiologic Reviews
Volume 27, Number 1, Pp. 3-8
ARTICLES

Disasters: Introduction and State of the Art

Eric K. Noji

Correspondence to Dr. Eric K. Noji, 1341 Hemlock St, NW, Washington, DC 2012 (e-mail:…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 13, 2009 at 6:07pm — No Comments

Grateful for Social Media

Lately, I've had to do a ton of research on medical insurance and dental plans as the budget year nears an end and the next one begins. This is the first time I've really had to give much thought to this as I've been on my parents plans for most of my life and then really didn't pay much attention early on… Continue

Added by Howard Strang on November 11, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Call for Papers: CARS 2010 ... Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 24th International Congress & Exhibition

Colleagues,

See the following message from MedTech-IQ members at the CARS Conference Office ...

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline for abstract / paper submissions: 11th January 2010

http://www.cars-int.org/

Goals

The CARS congress with its associated journal is a facilitator of innovation and an… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 10, 2009 at 6:09pm — 1 Comment

Google to Acquire AdMob

Google to Acquire AdMob

November 9, 2009

This morning we announced that AdMob has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google. I'm obviously excited, and not only for our customers, partners, and employees. I'm excited because I believe this will be an important moment for everyone involved in producing, consuming, or monetizing engaging products on mobile. The truth is that the mobile industry has had… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 9, 2009 at 10:24pm — No Comments

Six Social Media Trends for 2010 ... Harvard Business

Colleagues,

As posted recently online by Harvard Business publishing's "Conversation Starter" ... excerpts from David Armano's analysis and predictions for "Social Media" in 2010. David is part of the founding team at Dachis Group, an Austin based consultancy delivering social business design services, and is well reagarded as an active practitioner and thinker in the worlds of digital marketing, experience design, and the social web ...

.... In 2009 we saw exponential… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 9, 2009 at 9:24am — No Comments