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PHR: FTC Engages

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) includes provisions to advance the use of health IT and, at the same time, strengthen privacy and security protections for health information. In response, on 16Apr09 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed set of guidelines to deal with PHR data breaches. The FTC is formally seeking comment. The full text of the… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 20, 2009 at 10:18am — No Comments

Everything "Twitter"

Colleagues,

Thanks to MedTechIQ member, Mark Sendo, for this link on everthing "Twitter". Mark is Owner of urTurn, an innovative new virtual currency for online auctions ...

ENJOY!

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 20, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

New Member Update...20 April 2009

Colleagues,

The MedTechIQ community continues to grow. We are fortunate to have a membership of incredible talent, skill and experience. When you get a chance, search members by key word. See what you come up with ... then, "Contact, Connect, Collaborate!"

It is always good to stay connected ... here now, the new… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 20, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

President Obama picks Virginia technology leader for CTO post

Colleagues,

As reported in CNET News ... President Barack Obama, in his weekly address Saturday, announced the appointment of Aneesh Chopra to serve as the nation's first chief technology officer.

Chopra, who is currently Virginia's secretary of technology, "will promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities--from creating jobs and reducing health care costs to keeping our nation secure," Obama said...Although Chopra had reportedly been under… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 19, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Twitter Goes From Geek to Chic

Colleagues,

As predicted in MedTechIQ last January, 9 Web sites IT pros should master in 2009, Twitter has taken off in a big way, and has been much in the news as of late. In January of last year, Twitter revolved around the tech world -- the most-followed user on Jan. 18, 2008 was Twitteriffic, with 6,930 followers.

Today, the most-followed user, Ashton Kutcher, just… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 19, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

NIH Exploratory/Developmental Grant Program to Support Potentially Risky - Rewarding Studies

Colleagues,

As reported in GenomeWeb News ... Under a grant program focused on early-stage ideas and technologies, the National Institutes of Health will give up to $275,000 over a two-year period to researchers seeking funding for potentially risky but rewarding studies. These grants are specifically meant to encourage new research projects that are in the beginning or discovery phases of development.

The… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 17, 2009 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Electronic Health Records Have Some Issues To Overcome

The future of medicine has some bright spots. One medical megatrend relates to the electronic health record. President Obama is aggressively pushing the electronic health record [EHR]. It will be a major improvement to medical care and to patient safety over time. But there are two major problems that need to be overcome before the EHR will ever be fully functional – interoperability and physician documentation. By interoperability I mean that each of the companies that produce the software do… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 9, 2009 at 10:46am — 1 Comment

Roundtable on TBI research summary available

A summary from the March 27 roundtable discussion organized by the Institute of Federal Health Care is now available on the Institute website:

http://fedhealthinst.org/

Added by Nancy Tomich on April 9, 2009 at 7:49am — No Comments

Android Gets Traction

eWeek reports that Google's open source mobile platform 'Android' is finally gathering steam despite a slow start in gathering corporate recruits as part of the OHA (Open Handset Alliance). This is all to the good for the user community. The iPhone remains the dominant player in the 'smart-phone' market, but even Apple must be concerned about the competition looming from… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 7, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

The Clymer Group & "Stimulus" Funding Wrap-Up

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to bring you the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", we thought this a good time to summarize the U.S. "Stimulus" package Blog Posts, and describe how we at The Clymer Group are assisting MedTechIQ members & our clients take advantage of these opportunities...

The Clymer Group, LLC

The Clymer Group is a 1-stop "Bio-Infomediary" for social networking, strategic advisory services and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 7, 2009 at 12:05am — No Comments

NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010 - seeking 2 advisers by 4/11/09

To MedTech IQ members:

Here’s an opportunity to advise a Health IT Top 10 Finalist or Top 3 Grand Prize Winner for the upcoming

NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010.

Website launch - April 14, 2009

Media launch - April 21, 2009

Volunteer description:

4 hours of Health IT business development and promotion consulting services tailored to US Markets.

If you are interested, please forward a BIO/CV to me… Continue

Added by Lance M. on April 6, 2009 at 5:13pm — 5 Comments

EMR...Soon???

HIMSS Analytics announced its findings which portray a far more optimistic picture regarding EMR implementation, than an analysis reported in the 29Mar09 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, which, in marked contra-distinction, concluded that a nation-wide deployment of hospital based electronic records was still in a rudimentary stage. Both studies… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Big Apple: 'Welcome PHR'

The famous Frank Sinatra song goes, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere". Well, "The Grey Lady" is now reporting that the New York-Presbyterian Hospital System (accountable for ~20% of all NYC healthcare) has inaugurated its consumer-controlled health records for patients under its care. This large-scale PHR implementation will be… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Infrastructure Rock Stars - April 28th - The Historic Pennsylvania Infrastructure Summit

The Historic Pennsylvania Infrastructure Summit

April 28, 2009, Harrisburg Hilton

(Harrisburg, PA) - - Through the efforts of many Infrastructure Group members the 2009 Summit offers industry-leading presentations, including:

Kim Prizzingrilli, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission

Joseph Markosek, Chairman, House Transportation Committee

Allen Biehler, Secretary, PA Department of Transportation

Rob Wonderling, Chairman, PA Senate… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on April 5, 2009 at 11:50pm — No Comments

21 April 2009 Deadline for Additional Funding Requests on NIH Exisiting Grants ... "Competitive & Administrative" Supplement Programs

Colleagues,

The NIH deadline of 21 April 2009 is rapidly approaching for those with existing grants to request more funding to expand the scope of work or include comparative effectiveness research. This includes SBIR and STTR awards. See announcements below...

ENJOY!

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Notice Number:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 5, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

NIH Announces Procedures for Requesting Funds for Proposals Falling Below Pay-Line in FY 2008 & 2009

Colleagues,

NIH (National Institutes of Health) announced Friday that it will re-consider meritorious proposals that fell below the "Pay-Line" in Fiscal Year 2008 and 2009. See below the details...

ENJOY!

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Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-078

Release Date: April 3, 2009

Issued by

National Institutes… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 5, 2009 at 1:14pm — No Comments

Building the Best Foundation for Pennsylvania Health IT - By Kelly Lewis klewis@tccp.org www.techquestpa.com

With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the federal government will invest billions of dollars in health information technology, broadband, workforce development and job training.

To maximize the ARRA investment and help state organizations become ARRA eligible, Pennsylvania's strategy -- ARRA/PA -- needs to be a well-funded, well-coordinated, interagency and cross-industry.

Health IT has improved patient safety and quality of care while… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on April 5, 2009 at 1:09am — No Comments

MedTechIQ member, Walter Greenleaf's...Virtual Worlds Featured in Scientific American

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

A message from Walter Greenleaf, http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/WalterGreenleafPhD...

ENJOY!

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Hello to my friends --

Our VR and behavioral therapy project has appeared in Scientific American -

I'm proud of our team, and our work!

Here’s the link to the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Intel, GE Form Home Health Care Alliance

Colleagues,

As reported in Investor's Business Daily ... The world's No. 1 chipmaker is teaming up with industrial giant General Electric (GE) in a five-year, $250 million health care alliance to design and sell devices to help the elderly and people with chronic illness who live at home.

The companies didn't detail how they plan to spend the money or divide research efforts.

But as leaders in their respective industries, they may have an advantage as they bet… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 3, 2009 at 6:52am — No Comments

Best of FOSE'09

For those interested, an article in GCN summarizes the awards for Best of FOSE'09. These awards are in multiple categories, and include both hardware and software solutions available under government contract.

Added by Clymer/JR on April 1, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments