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Getting Started: New Apps, Twitter Like Feature and Thank You in Advance!

MedTech-IQ Member,

Thank you for joining us at the MedTech-IQ community. The home of the 3C's ... “Content, Community & Collaboration”. We are dedicated to translating medical technology from “Laboratory to Market” with a special focus on government funding, private capital and "Triple Helix" T2 (Technology Transfer) best practices. We hope you are finding it useful.

There is a lot new to explore @… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 14, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Top 10 Government Social Networking Sites to Keep You in the Loop!

Colleagues,

As reported in Federal Computer Week ... these are the government IT social-networking sites that will do a good job of keeping you in the loop & on the cutting edge!

1. GovLoop -- GovLoop has rapidly established itself as the pre-eminent location on the Web where government people can meet and interact with like-minded souls.

2. Gov… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 14, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Harrisburg Health Information Exchange Submits ARRA Health IT Grant

Harrisburg Health Information Exchange Submits ARRA Grant

Broad coalition seeks regional Health IT extension center status

(HARRISBURG, PA) – The Harrisburg Health Information Exchange and TechQuest Pennsylvania, operated by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania, announced the submission of a preliminary grant application totaling under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The preliminary grant application will be vigorously reviewed under… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on September 13, 2009 at 11:08am — 1 Comment

U.S. Medical Automation Technology Market Poised to Double by 2014

Colleagues,

As reported by Telemedicine and e-Health News Alert ... The market for medical automation technology is expected to grow by almost 80% from this year to 2014, according to a report by BCC Research. “Medical Automation Technologies, Products and Markets” forecasts an annual growth rate of 12.2%, increasing the market from $13.1 billion in 2009 to $23.2 billion in five years. The greatest degree of growth will be seen in the logistic and training segment, which will rise… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 11, 2009 at 10:34am — No Comments

Lessons on Social Neworks From the Pentagon ... Benefits & Risks

Colleagues,

In an interesting, and thought provoking article from Government Computer News, they have assembled a team of experts to describe both the advantages and risks of social networks.

The article analyzes these benefits & costs within the context of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). But many of these lessons apply to any social network, including ours here at MedTech-IQ.

Social networks are a great development. They vastly improve our… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 11, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

Good Example of public-private-university partnership to tackle major public health crisis

Here is the original article that the editorial from Military Medicine referenced.

This is one of the best examples I've seen of a public-private-foundation-university partnership to tackle a major public health problem. Actually, a potential global crisis -- pandemic influenza. The collaborators of this study were from Google.org, Centers for Disease Control, Google.com and Stanford.

See below for… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on September 10, 2009 at 7:34pm — 1 Comment

Early influenza detection -- High Marks for Google Search engine query data

Excellent editorial in this month's Military Medicine

Click link below to access PDF file

EditorialPublicHealthRoleSearchEnginePattieMilMedAug09Short.pdf

Eric K. Noji, M.D.
NGH&S LLC
Washington, D.C.

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on September 10, 2009 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Intriguing Job Opportunity ... Media Relations Director ... Health Related Organization

Colleagues,

Thank you to MedTech-IQ member, Adrian, for this posting ...

Please contact me (click my link to follow) if you, or a referral you would like to make, is interested. My link is: CC...Conrad Clyburn (Clymer… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 10, 2009 at 2:25pm — 1 Comment

HEALTHCARE MEETS SOCIAL MEDIA

The Mayo Clinic wasn’t sure what to expect from social media when it gave it a test run four years ago.

Things like iPods, MySpace and blogs had exploded onto the social scene, and businesses were looking to cash in. But the health care industry had other considerations, and more rules to play by.

The interest was not exclusively marketing and advertising, but rather how to use the technology to transform the access, delivery and dissemination of health information. And… Continue

Added by Bari Shein on September 8, 2009 at 10:44am — No Comments

New Member Update ... Who Are We? ... What Do We Do? ... What's New? (PART 2)

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to accelerate our collective ability to translate medical technology from laboratory to market, we remain committed to delivering the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration" to the "MedTech-IQ" community.

Please find below Part 2 of the New Member update. As is our custom, we divide new members by their self identified choice of "Triple Helix" sector ... Academia, Industry or Government.

Remember… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 7, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

New Member Update ... Who Are We? ... What Do We Do? ... How Can We Help! (PART 1)

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to bring you the 3Cs of "Content, Community & Collaboration", MedTech-IQ continues to attract new members by "word of mouth".

So, what does a typical day at MedTech-IQ look like?

According to Google analytics, we have 773 active members. On the 27th of August 2009, we had 266 visitors, 152 which were returning members, and 114 new visitors. Combined the visitors spent an average of 7 minutes and 25 seconds on… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 7, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

TOP FIVE HEALTH CARE LIES—AND HOW TO FIGHT BACK

The health care fight has turned ugly, fast. And lies about reform are spreading via anonymous email chains. Below are the real facts you need to know. Also, check out this great version of the Top Five Lies, created by Bradley, a Texas MoveOn member. (PDF)

Top Five Health Care Reform Lies—and How to Fight Back

Lie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma!!!

The truth: These accusations—of "death panels" and forced euthanasia—are, of course, flatly untrue.… Continue

Added by Bari Shein on September 5, 2009 at 6:57pm — No Comments

GoverningPeople.com on Rural Telehealth & Advanced Technologies Conference

Excellent: The short feature on the Rural Telehealth and Advanced Technologies Conference tomorrow in Loretto, PA is presently one of the top three posts on the new GoverningPeople.com website as of mid-day Thursday. Now that's Government 2.0 and social media in action, spreading the good word about technologies to help both our soldiers and citizens.

Added by Michael J. Russell on September 3, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

New Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) ... Opens With $97 million in Fiscal Year 2010

Colleagues,

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Defense Health Program Medical Research and Development Office is soliciting proposals for the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Awards to be funded beginning in fiscal year 2010 (FY10)...The DMRDP Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Award is being offered for the first time in FY10 ...and anticipates that approximately $97… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 2, 2009 at 4:12pm — 2 Comments

PRII ... Innovative Motion Medical Device Design & Development Collaborations

Solving your medical device actuation and motion control challenges – rapidly and economically. Piezo Resonance Innovations, Inc. designs, prototypes and manufactures medical devices under an FDA and ISO 13485:2003 compliant quality system. PRII has expertise in smart actuation technologies, including piezoelectric components that can operate in a magnetic field, such as for Magnetic Resonance Imaging diagnostic applications.

• Contract Designer and Manufacturer: PRII can work with… Continue

Added by Maureen L. Mulvihill on September 2, 2009 at 11:56am — No Comments

U.S. Health Information Technology (IT) Spending to Approach $10 billion by 2014

Colleagues,

As reported in Telemedicine and eHealth News Alert ... Money provided under the economic stimulus law will help state and federal governments increase health information technology spending by $7.6 billion to $9.6 billion by 2014, according to a report by market research firm INPUT.

Much of that spending will be directed toward purchase of electronic health record (EHR) systems, according to “Health IT Transformation: FY2009-FY2014 State and Local Market… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 2, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Rural Telehealth & Advanced Technologies Conference

(The full text of this excerpted blog post appears on Mike Russell's blog at: blog.planetrussell.net)

As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania heads into the 60th day of its marathon state budget impasse, that's… Continue

Added by Michael J. Russell on August 29, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

ICD-10

ICD-10: Just the Facts

CMS conference call sets the record straight.

By Lynn Jusinski

Posted on: August 26, 2009

On the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) conference call dealing with General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs), speaker Pat Brooks, RHIA, senior technical adviser, hospital and ambulatory policy group, Center for Medicare Management, CMS, gave several facts about ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation in general. As these came straight from… Continue

Added by Bari Shein on August 28, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

EHR Adoption is Business Process Change: Not Technology Adoption Alone!

August 26, 2009 Nari Kannan Leave a comment

EHR adoption or Non-adoption as I see it, is not because of Physicians alone! Lots of other people need to change the way they practice medicine, not just the Physicians!

Success or Failure of EHR adoption is often laid at the feet of Physicians. They are technology-averse, they are not comfortable with computers, etc. However it appears that everyone from the Office Manager or the person at the reception at the practice, to the… Continue

Added by Bari Shein on August 27, 2009 at 12:18pm — 1 Comment

Remembering “The Lion”

Colleagues,

MedTechIQ expresses our deepest condolences to our member, Dr William Smith, nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy. The senator died today following a battle with brain cancer.

Senator Kennedy will be long-remembered. Regardless of one’s political persuasion, none can deny the force of his ideas or the sincerity of his motivation. The “Lion of the Senate” was an energetic fighter. He spent much of his political career addressing the issue of equity in health care… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on August 26, 2009 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment