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Guest Blog: The David Petraeus of Health ... By Dana Blackenhorn

Colleagues,

As I have said in the past, Dana Blackenhorn is thoughful and thought provoking ... Let me see what you think of this blog on the recent recess appointment of David Berwick to become the new Administrator of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Excerpts below ....

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CC

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Who wants to spend half what they do now, on something… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Time to Rethink How We Pay for Medical Care and Healthcare

Today we mostly have prepaid medical care insurance with some co-pays and deductibles – both with commercial insurance and with Medicare. In other words, our insurance covers essentially everything from basic and routine care to the catastrophic. And the insurance pays out based on units of care – a visit, a test, a procedure, a hospitalization, a prescription. This creates a system in which providers (physicians, hospitals, drug and device companies, others) get paid for a unit of activity –… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on July 10, 2010 at 5:22pm — 3 Comments

Guest Blog...Jon Linkous, CEO, American Telemedicine Association (ATA) ... It’s mHealth, but will it be a Revolution?

Colleagues,

Please see guest blog from MedTech-IQ member, Jon Linkous from his American Telemedicine Association (ATA) blog ...

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CC

The funny thing about “mHealth” is that…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 5, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Forecasting and Early Warning for Infectious Disease Crises: A Critical Component to Preparedness

Infectious Disease Crises and

Disasters: Statement of the Problem

Any country, including the United States, is exposed to the world's

infectious disease traffic through the air transportation and commerce

grid. Whether infectious disease hazards emerge locally or are

introduced from abroad, pre-event situational awareness is essential for

rapid identification of risk and preemptive mitigation.

Drawing from… Continue

Added by James M. Wilson V, M.D. on June 29, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Kitware's New Approach to Quantify Risk of Developing Lung Cancer published in Academic Radiology

Colleagues,

Thank you to MedTech-IQ member, Rick Avila of Kitware, Inc. for this heads up on early findings regarding a new approach his company is pioneering to quantitatively measure lung cancer risk. Rick, Kitware’s Senior Director of Healthcare Solutions, was the lead investigator on the research. Expect to see press releases similar to below on these… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Conversations with the Masters of Healing - Free Teleseminar Intensive

I’m thrilled to announce the kick off of my inaugural teleseminar intensive – Conversations with the Masters of Healing – starting next month! I’ve wanted to organize this event for quite some time and I so look forward to sharing these amazing individuals with you.

"Conversations with the Masters of Healing" is a rare opportunity for you to listen, learn, change your life, and speak to the most incredible practitioners of healthcare and healing.… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on June 25, 2010 at 2:50pm — 1 Comment

A Disease Industry vs. A Healthcare System

Today America does not have a true healthcare system that focuses on wellness and disease prevention. Rather it focuses on disease diagnosis and treatment paid for on a unit basis. Each visit, each procedure, each test, each drug, each hospitalization is charged for. The result is more and more units of care are given rather than a focus on how to give good preventive care and how to coordinate the care of those with complex chronic illnesses. As long as we have a disease industry – driven by… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 24, 2010 at 5:36pm — 3 Comments

A Roadmap to Broadband Adoption Conference - TODAY LIVE coverage

Broadband for America, NextGenWeb, Net Literacy, and USIIA have partnered to host "A Roadmap to Broadband Adoption Conference" taking place today in Washington, DC.

Follow coverage of the conference on the Broadband for America blog here, tweets by me here using #BBRoadmap and watch the speakers via livestream… Continue

Added by Christine Stineman on June 22, 2010 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Guest Blog: Don Jones, Qualcomm ... We're Shaping the Future: World Economic Forum on Advancing mHealth

Colleagues,

Please see first blog post from a good friend of MedTech-IQ, Don Jones, Vice-President of Business Development in Health & Life Sciences, Qualcomm ...

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CC

Don Jones, Vice…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 19, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

EVENT SYNOPSIS:…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on June 10, 2010 at 9:41pm — 9 Comments

Turbulence Ahead in Health Care

The decade ahead is one likely to be full of turbulence. How everything will shake out is anybody’s guess.

But we can be sure that technology advancements will slow for no one. The rate of medical technology advancement now is very fast and the speed will only accelerate. One big problem is that technology advances so fast that there is no time for a purchase – say new CT scanner or diagnostic device in a clinical laboratory – to create any return on the investment before a new or… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 10, 2010 at 4:26pm — No Comments

Blue Oceans

Wow. Who would have thought that Apple would dethrone Microsoft in the category of market capitalization. They did just that! For Apple 'followers', who have always seen Microsoft through some Manichean prism, this event takes on religious proportions. For the rest of us Apple admirers (who don't rely on anti-psychotic meds to get through the day), however, this is noteworthy for what it reveals about… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on June 7, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Further Disruptive Trends in Medicine

Generally we prefer calm seas but often they don’t get us anywhere. We need disruptions, transformations to make the changes necessary for real progress in medicine. Sometimes it is a new technology; sometimes a cultural change. But then a refinement may occur. The refinement may not seem like a “disruption” but indeed it can be because the refinement may create a demand for change. Here a few more disruptive changes or refinements that are leading to disruptions of the old ways.… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on May 4, 2010 at 7:39am — No Comments

Guest Blog: Electronic medical records and its rushed implementation ... Kevin Pho, M.D. | KevinMD

Colleagues,

As many of you know, Kevin Pho, M.D. is one of social media's leading physician voices on evolving technology and its impact on medical practice ...

... Please see his recent cautionary blog on the U.S. EHR adoption initiative. In particular see the "comments" that follow the blog ...

... They point to an important debate that is emerging between physicians accustomed to robust EHR systems (Kaiser Permanente, VA, Mayo, ect.) and small and solo practice… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 3, 2010 at 6:44am — 2 Comments

New Video for MedTech-IQ ... Ron Merrell & Telemedicine, Regenerative Medicine, mHealth, Simulation, Health IT, International Health

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to provide you with the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", please see new videos for your information & illumination ...

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CC

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Telemedicine: Dr Ronald Merrell ... VCU Telemedicine

Dr Ron… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on May 31, 2010 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Kudos to TATRC ... Annual Report 2009

Colleagues,

Often I bring to your attention, medical technology developments deriving from investments by the military medical research community. Frequently, it has been my experience, that military medical research will push the envelope in ways that develop whole new capabilities that we all end up benefiting from ....

.... Recent examples would be the leadership role Department of Defense research has taken in teleradiology, clinical telemedicine, surgical robotics,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on May 20, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Disruptive Changes Are Coming to the Delivery of Medical Care

The following was an invited post on Harvard Busines Review web site last Friday.

We have grown accustomed to scientific research producing major medical advances such as those I wrote about in The Future of Medicine — Megatrends in Healthcare. But there are now some very disruptive changes coming in how medical care will be delivered by your doctor or hospital.

Some examples:

Team-based care for chronic illness. The combination of an aging population and… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 25, 2010 at 4:42pm — No Comments

4 Facebook lessons from DOD

COMMENTARY

4 Facebook lessons from DOD

Agencies need to learn some rules of the road before jumping into social media

* By Fred Wellman

* Apr 21, 2010

Now that both the White House and Defense Department have established social media policies, more organizations are certain to leap into the fray and launch social networking sites.… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:39am — No Comments

With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?

With social media, should DOD go to the people, or should the people go to DOD?

* By Kevin McCaney

* Mar 11, 2010

Should the Defense Department be making use of public social media sites such as Facebook, or should DOD, for security reasons, build its own?

Paul A. Strassman’s recent column arguing that that DOD’s social media policy doesn’t do… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:46am — No Comments

Cloud Interoperability Will Connect Agencies, Constituents

As public sector organizations evaluate cloud services as a way to consolidate IT infrastructures, scale systems and enable innovative Open Government services, technology vendors…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments