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ConnectMD’s Medical Network Enables Innovative Remote Allocation for Blood Distribution

GCI ConnectMD Increases Safety for Puget Sound Blood Center Patients

DECEMBER 29, 2010, SEATTLE — GCI ConnectMD (ConnectMD) is making a new blood-distribution process possible for the…

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Added by Courtney Hastings on December 29, 2010 at 10:39am — No Comments

Social Networking: Aggregating Our Pluralistic Health System in Support of Health IT Adoption

The national effort to “e-enable” the healthcare industry is unprecedented in scope. Fully $50 billion has been made available through ARRA for broadband infrastructure, standards, outcomes research and incentivizing healthcare organizations and providers to become “meaningful” users of certified information technologies. This, not to mention the billions more in private sector leveraging happening right now through telecommunications providers, hardware and software companies, consulting firms… Continue

Added by Neal Neuberger on November 23, 2010 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Teamwork Improves Surgical Safety and Reduces Mortality

Like the cockpit, the operating room (OR) is fraught with high intensity, high complexity, high velocity, and high stakes. And as a capital intense location which serves as the financial engine of many or not most hospitals, there is pressure to use the OR efficiently. Like the cockpit, there is hierarchy, and a deep culture which includes strongly held rituals and customs. Unfortunately, there are also errors of omission and commission which lead to adverse outcomes including patient… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on November 14, 2010 at 9:04am — No Comments

HealthSaaS Releases DiabetesPHR with Connectivity to Microsoft HealthVault

HealthSaaS today announced the release of an online diabetes management tool that is available at www.diabetesphr.com

Clackamas, OR, November 11, 2010 --(PR.com)-- DiabetesPHR is a web based Software as a Service (SaaS) application built on a patent pending framework that enables patients to record conditions, doctors, blood glucose, blood pressure, medications, naturopathic remedies, sleep patterns, weight, treatments, therapies,… Continue

Added by frankille on November 11, 2010 at 11:06pm — No Comments

HealthSaaS launches new corporate website

HealthSaaS launches new corporate website and announces HealthSaaS Consulting Services

Nov 11, 2010 – HealthSaaS, Inc. a leading Software as a Service organization in the Health 2.0 industry has announced today the launch of its new logo and redesigned website at www.healthsaas.net

The new web site has been updated to reflect all of the products and services HealthSaaS provides including their new consulting services organization.… Continue

Added by frankille on November 11, 2010 at 11:08pm — No Comments

New Finding May Aid Alzheimer’s Treatment Options

A protein recently found in the brain -- gamma secretase activating protein or GSAP -- increases the production of beta-amyloid, the presumed culprit in Alzheimer’s disease. In a mouse model, reducing GSAP led to reduced beta-amyloid disposition. This prompts in turn the appealing notion that a drug could be found to inhibit GSAP and thereby forestall or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

Imatinib (Gleevec, used to treat chronic myelocytic leukemia or CML) does inhibit GSAP… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on October 26, 2010 at 1:05pm — No Comments

Content: Day 1 ATA (American Telemedicine Association) Mid-Year Meeting ... Priceless!

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ... Charles Darwin

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to bring you the 3Cs of "Content, Community and Collaboration", I offer you a summation of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 28, 2010 at 7:52am — 5 Comments

Real-Time Medical Video Website Uses Identity Verification to Verify Its Members and Combat Fraud

Brandon Winchester, MD, anesthesiologist at Duke University School of Medicine, set out to accomplish the unprecedented in medical education when he and his colleague, Stuart Grant, MB ChB founded DOCSTREAM Inc. The company's proprietary product, DOCSTREAM.COM provides clinicians with a web-based community to upload or watch live or on-demand videos of medical procedures. Because the site is only for medical professionals, the company has incorporated IDology's identity verification solutions… Continue

Added by Jodi Florence on September 14, 2010 at 1:29pm — No Comments

Thought Controlled Artificial Limbs

I wrote about the possibility of brain-controlled artificial limbs in “The Future of Medicine” but now there has been real progress. At Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory, scientists have progressed with their design of an artificial limb that will have a brain controlled interface. The model came about through a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which has been looking for a prosthetic arm that would be many leagues… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on September 14, 2010 at 4:10pm — No Comments

Medical Relief in Haiti

Months later US doctors still providing medical relief in Haiti. "It's still a fairly dire situation. It's just that it's fallen from the public's attention," said Sutter Health anesthesiologist Dr. Stephen Lockhart.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/24602920/detail.html

Added by Jon Putman on August 23, 2010 at 12:38am — No Comments

Remote Presence Technology in Haiti

"We want to bring technical expertise and medical knowledge in a way that's ongoing," said Dr. Lockhart.

http://cbs5.com/local/robot.haiti.victims.2.1856594.html

Added by Jon Putman on August 23, 2010 at 1:05am — No Comments

10 Trends to Watch That Will Affect Your Business ... McKinsey Quarterly

Colleagues,

SourceLink: McKinsey Quarterly

Every so often, a combination of trends intersect that require us to re-examine and re-evaluate our business strategies. I think we are in one of those times. Particularly, as it relates to advances in medical technology. However, these… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on August 22, 2010 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Thanks MedTech

Today I've received an email address saying that my profile is now a featured profile :) and I was very happy of that.

For That I'm thanking everyone contributed in this community and helped in building each word here.

I would like to build for you a special board on our Forums in order to discuss everything with our professionals and consultants that will make it more attractive and more… Continue

Added by Yusuf Hakim on August 17, 2010 at 5:16am — No Comments

Solar Highways ... Good "Out of the Box" Thinking ... Courtesy of MedTech-IQ member, Steve Bruttig

Colleagues,

Want to see something cool?

Check out this video link sent to us by MedTech-IQ member, Steve Bruttig, about this U.S. Department of Transportation funded project. Fascinating ... It reminds a little of the videos we have seen on "Augmented Reality", another "Out of the Box" innovation that I think has great potential… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on August 15, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Stem Cells, Cancer, and You. The Mystery and the Update

The mystery of stem cells: If you had cancer, what would you do today?

How can stem cells help chemo-resistant cancer patients?

Fascinating discussion with Dr. Mitchell Ghen yesterday as we…

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Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on August 13, 2010 at 7:38am — No Comments

FierceMobileHealthcare ... Neil Versel and 15 Free Healthcare Apps for Google Android

Colleagues,

Recent MedTech-IQ member, Neil Versel provided links and descriptions to 15 free healthcare apps for the Google Android in this article for FierceMobileHealthcare. Dan Bowman also contributed to this report ... See links at the bottom of the FierceMobileHealthcare article for links to Blackberry & iPhone Apps,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on August 10, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) - White Paper

About the White Paper: For those who do not know what is Vendor Neutral Archive or VNA, the term is used by many vendors of PACS software to identify the core of their product--the component

that is used to reliably manage, store, retrieve, and query medical

images and related information. Unfortunately, there is no "official"

definition of the functionality of a VNA. As such, VNA offerings vary

from vendor to vendor. The result is confusion among users…

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Added by Yusuf Hakim on July 27, 2010 at 8:03am — 2 Comments

The Healthy Kids Mobile Apps Challenge

Colleagues,

Let's try something new. Mobile Apps focused on health, wellness and medical care are proliferating rapidly. Innovation contests with money awards are also rapidly growing as a way to encourage new ideas, technologies and strategies...

... MedTech-IQ member,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 25, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Health 2.0 Real Time Patient-Driven Data Challenge with Practice Fusion

HealthSaaS is participating in the Health 2.0 Challenge and is blogging about the experience.…

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Added by frankille on July 15, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Metal Toxicity and Disease with Dr. Buttar - Special Bonus Guest

Conversations with the Masters of Healing begins Tuesday and we have a special bonus guest - Dr. Rashid Buttar!

Here’s a little background information on Dr. Rashid Buttar:

Rashid A. Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM, trained in General Surgery and Emergency Medicine and then served as Brigade Surgeon for 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of South Korea and later, as the… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on July 15, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments