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…
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Added by Lance M. on February 2, 2009 at 2:45pm —
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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…
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Added by Greg on February 2, 2009 at 9:30am —
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From: Kvedar, Joseph Charles,M.D.
To: cc@clymergroup.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: Recommendations Sent to Obama Healthcare Team
Dear Conrad,
President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Nominee Tom Daschle asked Americans – and we delivered – to give feedback and recommendations on ways to improve quality and expand access to care.
Per my earlier email, in late 2008, I hosted an…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 26, 2009 at 9:19pm —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
Just a reminder, MedTechIQ member, Dan Louague, and his Capital Formation Institute (CFI) will be hosting a free teleconference today!...
"Obama’s Techonomics Program”
Call-in number: 712-941-0216
Passcode: 371073 #
Date:Wednesday, January 21, 2008
Times:
9:00 am Hawaii
10:00 am Alaska
11:00 am Pacific
12:00 noon Mountain
1:00 pm Central
2:00 pm…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 21, 2009 at 10:31am —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
As reported in the Pacific Business News...A new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds more people are embracing social networking, but those Web sites remain most popular among the young.
Roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults go online, and 35 percent of those use social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, according to the report. Only 8 percent of adult Web users…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 17, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name the nation’s first-ever federal chief technology officer sometime soon. It’s not surprising that Obama plans a major emphasis on technology. His presidential campaign relied heavily on the latest forms of communication -– Internet Social Networks and Text-Messaging -– to organize volunteers, raise funds and get voters to the polls. Scott Goodstein ran the mobile communications for the president-elect's campaign. While most of this article focuses…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 3:55pm —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...
Academia:
Yvette Butler: HIV/AIDS
Alice Watland: COO of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Washington, DC
Tracy W Messer, APR: Web Development & Communications
Brendan Janishefski: Graphic Design
Jay Srini: Innovation , healthcare policy and…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:15am —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...
To search all new member updates, just click "Blogs" tab on the top of thew MedTechIQ homepage, and then enter "member update" in the "Search" box...And now, the last of this crop of new members!
Academia/NonProfit:
Craig H Llewellyn: Military Medicine,…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:00am —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
Please welcome new Members of the MedTechIQ "Networking & Learning" community...
Academia & NonProfit:
Rifat Latifi: Trauma, Telemedicine, surgery
Henry Etzkowitz: Triple Helix: university-industry-government interactions; entrepreneurial university, Women in science and technology
Chunyan Zhou: Innovation of Science and technology
University-industry-government…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 7:46am —
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Dear Colleagues,
We are please to announce the 1st Annual Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference, to be held at ORNL (Oak Ridge, Tennessee), March 18-19, 2009. The conference theme is: Innovative, interdisciplinary research trends in biomedical technologies and research for maximum application-specific problem solving. There are three key target areas: Biomedical Informatics, Modeling and Simulation, and Measurement Science and Imaging…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 7, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Progress of "Biodefense for the 21st Century" – A Five Year Evaluation
See:
http://bit.ly/uR8n
January 15, 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Hudson Institute
Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
The Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) is pleased to invite you to a Roundtable on Interagency Reform discussing a case study on "Progress of…
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Added by Michael J. Russell on January 7, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
We want to bring to your attention an outstanding free training opportunity.
It will allow attendees to make an informed decision as to how to better plan their commercialization efforts, be it through employment, licensing, consulting, joint venturing or startup creation. Please forward this email to all researchers interested in learning how to commercialize their research.
The National Council of…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 7, 2009 at 9:33am —
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Colleagues,
As I have previously mentioned, Linkedin is an incredible resource for the socially networked professional. Now I have another exciting development to report to you, especially if you are a supporter of telemedicine as a means to extend healthcare to the underserved and to optimize health & fitness, the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) has launched an ATA group on Linkedin. That's right, now you can link to other telemedicine experts using the powerful network…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 5, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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(photo)- Medical staff at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine unloading supplies provided through a cooperative effort of
HELP,
Kingtsbridge International and
US PACOM Forces.
Payson, Arizona. January 6, 2009:…
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Added by Randy Roberson on December 29, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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Colleagues,
...Another job opportunity from the MedTechIQ on Linkedin group...
From Mike Snedecor, MD, MPH
Snedecor Healthcare Consulting, LLC
Job opportunity for PhD, MD or equivalent with extensive skill with longitudinal health datasets, preferably in the DoD or VA system. Washington DC area.
A colleague's company is looking to hire a full-time manager to work at the VA. Ideally, they would like a someone with health related experience in the…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 29, 2008 at 10:18am —
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Colleagues,
See compelling article attached from Marc L. Ostfield, PhD, Senior Advisor for Bioterrorism, Biodefense, and Health Security, U.S. Department of State, Office of International Health and Biodefense. Though the views he expresses in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. government, they are clearly insightful, well articulated and important for the MedTechIQ international audience to consider.…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 29, 2008 at 12:00am —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
More new members...
Academia:
Daniel Gottlieb: Neurological rehabilitation & neurology
Ankur Mittal: Consulting - Indian CRO Directory & Industry Tracker
Ye Yue: Medical training
Raymond T. Terrry, Sr., Ph.D: Delivery & Health Systems/Policy Development
Jim Hammond: Telemedicine, Network Topology, Medical Monitoring, TelePsychiatry, UTMB - Electronic…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 24, 2008 at 6:30am —
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A message to all members of MedTechIQ
Colleagues,
December is a joyous time for people of all faiths...Happy Holidays all!
In the spirit of the season, lets welcome these new members of the MedTechIQ community...
Academia/Non-Profit:
Babs Soller: Patient monitoring, near infrared spectroscopy, tissue perfusion
David Devore: R&D management, including industrial and academic virtual network organizations; polymer, colloid…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 24, 2008 at 6:30am —
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The new Obama administration used Web2.0 with great success during the presidential campaign, and has committed to utilizing this social infrastructure to enhance the value of eGov. A
report analyzes the incumbent hurdles (many of which are cultural rather than technical) to achieve this laudable goal.
Added by Clymer/JR on December 23, 2008 at 12:44pm —
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Colleagues,
As reported in Scientific American...President-elect Barack Obama recently named more top science advisors. John Holdren, a 64-year-old physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, will be his chief science adviser, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. Obama also named chairs of the Presidential Council of Advisers on Science and Technology: Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus and biologist Eric Lander, who heads the Broad Institute, a…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 11:30am —
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