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Healthcare Reform and Connected Health - Your input requested by Dec 31st

Colleagues,

See following post from MedTechIQ member, Dr Joseph Kvedar, Director, Center for Connected Health...

"...there is a possibility that disproportionate emphasis will be placed on increasing access to care through universal coverage and to traditional health information technology, or electronic medical records (EMRs)... I’d… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Indian CRO Directory & Industry Tracker

Greetings!

Wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

I have prepared first ever & one-of-its-own-kind Directory of Indian Contract Research Organizations for anyone who is associated with Life Sciences Industry.

This is hugely successful piece of work and more than 500 copies have already been sold worldwide. If you want to enhance your business opportunities and want to know what constitutes of Indian CRO Industry, what all factors and strategies… Continue

Added by Ankur Mittal on December 22, 2008 at 10:59am — 3 Comments

Connectivity

Connecting the Dots: A Dynamic Evolving Vision

Published March 2003 in the CAPG.org newsletter

Knowledge is powerful medicine. It reduces healthcare costs and improves the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of care delivered.

Patients and their caregivers are empowered by using new communication technologies so as to improve their access to health knowledge (and even wisdom), self-care, decision support, referral, consultation and triage… Continue

Added by Ronald J. Pion MD on December 19, 2008 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Institute of Med (IOM): U.S. Commitment to Global Health - Recommendations for New Administration

Colleagues,

As just released by IOM...GLOBAL HEALTH SHOULD BE KEY COMPONENT OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY...The U.S. should significantly intensify its commitment to global health in the next four years by increasing funding and placing greater importance on health when setting overall U.S. foreign policy, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine written to inform the incoming administration's future policies. To achieve this level of commitment, a White House Interagency Committee… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 17, 2008 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Final Call: World's Best Technology (WBT) Showcase - Technology Submissions, December 22

There is still time to submit a company or technology for the upcoming WBTshowcase. This elite national event showcases prescreened, cutting-edge, first-to-market companies and technologies emanating from the private sector, top universities, federal labs, agencies and research institutions, to an audience of the world's leading seed investors, venture capitalists and Fortune 1000 licensing experts.

There is No Cost to Apply and a $595 registration fee for those selected to… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 17, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments

Telerehab and Tele Physiotherapy

My name is Eli Doron. I have 30 years of technical and management experience in Hi-tech including a NASDAQ company I have founded 16 years ago.

I'm now in a process to start a new venture that will enable neurological and Orthopedic patients who need home exercise to do so at home with the ability to monitor and give real time feedback. It is aimed to be part of a physiotherapy treatment and not a replacement.

One of the issues I face is the lack of "service providers" who can… Continue

Added by Eli Doron on December 17, 2008 at 1:55am — 3 Comments

WHO Essential Health Technologies and the Global Healthcare Workforce Crisis

I am not yet sure of the breadth of experience of the group on International Health and Humanitarian Assistance so please forgive me if you are all aware of these two sites and their main issues:

http://www.who.int/eht/en/

http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/

If anyone is not, they are worth taking a long look at. The first outlines the WHO efforts in supporting the development and integration of new technology in the healthcare systems of the developing world. There… Continue

Added by Adrian on December 16, 2008 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Connecting Gobal Health to the Creation of Sustainable Enterprises

For the past several years, I have been working with clinicians, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurial leaders to better understand how we can develop new technologies for rural and poor communities that combine improvements in public health and health care with new entrepreurial ventures that also advance economic development in those communities.

Today, Madeline Drexler wrote a nicely balanced piece in the New York Times (Looking Under the Hood and Seeing an Incubator By… Continue

Added by Jonathan Rosen on December 16, 2008 at 9:53am — 3 Comments

Job Listing: Project Manager (PM) position to plan and manage the delivery of business solutions

Title: Project Manager

Reports to: President and Chief Scientific Officer.

Based at: Health Analytics, LLC , Columbia, MD

Job purpose:

The primary purpose of the Project Manager (PM) position is to plan and manage the delivery of business solutions in the form of client project completion. This includes project planning, estimating, execution, implementation and ongoing support. Individual will work closely with the CSO to ensure the efficiency and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 14, 2008 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Telemedicine Business start-up

At 6:27pm on December 13, 2008, Mark Stern, MD, MBA said… I recently joined MedTechIQ. My name is Mark Stern. I am an emergency medicine physician for >20 years and also have an MBA from Michigan. I recently put together a Business plan for Telemedicine, specifically for ICU's in rural hospitals in the U.S. but am also interested on utilizing this technique on a global basis. There are obviously many additional areas that this technology can and will be utilized in the near future. I am… Continue

Added by Mark Stern, MD, MBA on December 14, 2008 at 12:18pm — 3 Comments

Metamodern

Eric Drexler, nanotechnology guru, has just started a new blog on all things nano at metamodern.com. You may want to check it out.

John Garrett

Added by John Garrett on December 14, 2008 at 10:15am — 2 Comments

Seeking Combination of Intelligent Antenna Technology for TD-SCDMA System and MIMO (#N-1)

Colleagues,

Please see newly posted Technology Search

Search Title: Combination of Intelligent Antenna Technology for TD-SCDMA System and MIMO

Search #: N-1

Issue Date:14 Dec 2008

"NextTechs" Technology or Patent Search Program Description

Overview

NextTechs is looking for technologies that will help evolve the current intelligent antenna… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 14, 2008 at 5:00am — No Comments

Next NIH Director Faces Budget Issues ... Health Agency Has Seen Funding Stall

Colleagues,

As reported in today's Washington Post...The director of the National Institutes of Health may be the least political of a president's political appointments.

The director's job is not to promote administration priorities -- in fact, it's the opposite. The chief, if unwritten, task is to keep the president and Congress from meddling with the agency.

The NIH this fiscal year will spend just under $29.5 billion on basic and applied medical research.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update - 13 December 2008

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We have been joined by new MedTechIQ members. They include:

Academia/ Not For Profit:

Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP: Humanitarian medicine, Disaster medicine, public health, outbreak epidemiology, austere communications, collaboration techniques, cross-functional team dynamics

Ron Marchessault: Medical Device Research and Development, Technology Commercialization

Phil Weinfurt:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Remember Me

Thanks to Steve Douglas (CEO, Data Physics Research, Inc) for this reference. The video speaks for itself. Prepare to be moved!!!

Added by Clymer/JR on December 12, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Healing with Laser Heat Surgical lasers could soon heal cuts as well as make incisions.

Colleagues,

As reported in MIT Tech Review ... The promise of medical lasers goes beyond clean incisions and eye surgery: Many believe that lasers should be used not just to create wounds but to mend them too. Abraham Katzir, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has a system that may just do the trick and is proving successful in its first human trials.

In principle, "laser-bonded" healing offers certain advantages over classic needle-and-thread sutures, including faster… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 11, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation gives $8M to Kansas University

Colleagues,

As reported in the Kansas City Business Journal...The University of Kansas has established an organization aimed at accelerating the development of new drugs and medical devices, helped by an $8.1 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation is being hailed as a unique collaboration among higher education, philanthropy and industry. ...

Read on at:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 10, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

2 Weeks Left to Apply to Present at the 2009 World's Best Technologies (WBT) Tshowcase

Colleagues,

As related by MedTechIQ member, Paul Huleatt, CEO, Development Capital Networks (DCN),...

Anyone can reserve a conference room and sell exhibit space. But if you are serious about connecting with investors and licensees, the WBTshowcase is a competitive, proven, and must-attend event.

Applications have now been received from over 37 states and 19 countries including submissions from Johns Hopkins, Auburn University, National Research Council Canada,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 10, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

University-Private Sector Research Partnerships in the Innovation Ecosystem

Colleagues,

Excuse the 3rd message on this subject.

But, I have received 2 emails indicating that members were unable to find the link to the Presidential Council on Science and Technology report. It is an excellent and recent, November 2008, White House Report on Open Innovation and "Triple Helix" academic, industry, government partnerships.

In case you were unable to find the link, it… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 9, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

US, Saudi Arabia Agree to Joint Research on Biotech and Genomics

Colleagues,

As reported in GenomeWebNews...The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have formed a pact that will enable greater cooperation between the two nations across a range of scientific research programs, including plant genomics and biotechnology, health, agriculture, water purification, and other areas, the US Department of State said this week.

The agreement will give US researchers “greater access to new research opportunities, provide US academic… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 9, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments