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Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation Call for Papers

Dear colleagues:



The Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (JCR), the official journal of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal that explores the uses of advanced technologies for therapy, training, education, prevention, and rehabilitation and is currently indexed with PsycINFO, Gale and EBSCO. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board consisting of top clinicians,… Continue

Added by James Cullen on April 14, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments

Teamwork Can Help Avert the Pending Cost Crisis in Health Care

The following was posted by me at Harvard Business Review yesterday. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/04/teamwork_can_help_avert_the_pe.html



Most health care money in the United States goes largely for the care of people with complex chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart failure, cancer, lung disease, and the like. We will soon see many more individuals with these illnesses because of two factors: the… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 13, 2010 at 11:08am — No Comments

Haitian Dancer ... featured in earlier post ... Caught between Two Caregivers

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You may recall an earlier post about Fabienne Jean, a dancer from Haiti's National Theater who lost her right leg to infection and subsequent amputation in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, "Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins", ...…



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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 13, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Nonpareil

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1004fk8d5gt/event/ (Video length = 60 minutes)


Apple has had one incredible week. First the iPad release has exceeded market predictions. I've been somewhat skeptical, but the more I see & hear of this device, the more I think they may have another tiger by the tail. Time will tell.


If that weren't enough, now comes the…
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Added by Clymer/JR on April 9, 2010 at 3:14pm — No Comments

e-Readers

We have tried the Kindle for use with medical students, and as Dr. Kim suggests the gray tones do not work for medical illustration. However, the bigger problem that we found was having medical textbook publishers move their titles to e-reader format with pictures. When we tested, very few publishers had e-editions of the necessry medical textbooks. The problem should be bigger today because there are now more e-formats.

In our testing, when we were able to find an e-version…

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Added by Robert (Bob) E. Griffin on April 8, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Should iPads be mandatory in medical school? ... Blog by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH

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One of MedTech-IQ's members, Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, is also one of the Internet's top medical bloggers. Please see one his recent posts at medpageTODAY's KevinMD.com , "An iPad should be mandatory in medical school",… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 8, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

Clay Christensen: How to Bring Disruptive Innovation to Health Care

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As reported in Harvard Business Review ... According to Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail ... Disruptive innovation seems to have bypassed the health care industry...



...Clay Christensen’s theory predicts that entrenched companies, products and services are often “disrupted” from below by competitors who are able to meet the needs of most current… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Spot of Tea?

Taking care of two aging parents, or having too much idle time ... feel…

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Added by Clymer/JR on April 4, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

INTERSTRESS Tests Technology Solution to Stress

Milan, Italy March 19, 2010 - What if lowering your stress level was as easy and as much fun as playing a video game? What if all of the work was automated for you, with reminders on your mobile phone? What if the system that achieved this was so smart, it changed the program the second you changed your behavior?



This is the vision of a new project funded by ICT for Health, European Commission. Called Interreality in the Management and Treatment… Continue

Added by James Cullen on April 1, 2010 at 2:11am — No Comments

Please Check-Out New Blog ... The cHealth Blog ... By MedTech-IQ member, Joseph Kvedar

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Joseph Kvedar, former President, American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and present Director, Center for Connected Health, has launched a new blog The… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 28, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

U.S. White House Office of Science & Technology Issues ... Request For Information (RFI) on University Research Commercialization

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Yesterday, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) published an RFI (Request For Information) soliciting ideas on how to accelerate U.S. commercialization of federally funded Academic research...



...
Federally-funded research has played a major role in the development of multiple recent… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 26, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Top 100 Life Science Universities in the World

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As reported in US News and World Report ...



To see full report:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2010 at 9:33am — 1 Comment

Mobile Apps in Medicine



healthcare IT




Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.…
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Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on March 22, 2010 at 2:48am — No Comments

10 Innovations That Will Transform Medicine ... Harvard Business Review

Colleagues,



This post is part of Harvard Business Review's Health Care Innovations Insight Center...



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Here are excerpts from the 10 innovations that Harvard Business Review thinks will have a big impact ...



ENJOY!



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1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 21, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Teeth Fashion

I went to my Orange County tooth extraction dentist yesterday. In my seven years as his patient, I thought I already know everything there is to know about teeth. Much to my

surprise, there are still things I don’t know about them.





For…

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Added by Robert J. Turner on March 19, 2010 at 3:24am — No Comments

What's Hot at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas

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One of the most important conferences in the connected media world of social networking, Web 2.0 and, maybe, emerging Enterprise 2.0 applications, is this week's South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas. See what's been deemed to be "Hot" by MediaPost's "Social Media Insider" ...



ENJOY!



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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

NY Times - Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced

The New York Times




March 16, 2010


Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced

FOND-DES-BLANCS, Haiti — Before the earthquake… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 16, 2010 at 5:36pm — No Comments

Press Release: Broadband for America (BfA) Responds To National Broadband Plan



Broadband for America (BfA) Responds To National Broadband Plan











For Immediate Release
March 16, 2010…
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Added by Christine Stineman on March 16, 2010 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Fixing Academic Technology Transfer

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Two of the most accomplished authors in Triple Helix ... Academic, Industry, Government ... technology transfer strategy are Eric Campbell, PhD, Director of Research, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, and Joshua Powers, Ph.D, Chair, Department of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Registration Now Open for 15th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference!

Colleagues,



It is our privilege to announce to you that registration for the 15th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT15), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR), is now open!



Please visit www.e-therapy2010.org to begin your registration process to this groundbreaking conference! Early Registration ends on May 15, 2010 and space is… Continue

Added by James Cullen on March 15, 2010 at 5:46pm — No Comments

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