The following was an invited post on the Harvard Business Review at
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/04/is_technology_a_cost_driver_or.html
Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical-device and equipment companies have been extremely effective at producing innovations that have created major benefits for medical care. But the cost of new patented drugs and devices (pacemakers, defibrillators, stents,…
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Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 20, 2010 at 3:47pm —
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on April 26, 2010 at 9:52am —
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Dear colleagues:
The Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (JCR), the official journal of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal that explores the uses of advanced technologies for therapy, training, education, prevention, and rehabilitation and is currently indexed with PsycINFO, Gale and EBSCO. Led by an internationally renowned editorial board consisting of top clinicians,…
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Added by James Cullen on April 14, 2010 at 6:28pm —
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The following was posted by me at Harvard Business Review yesterday.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/04/teamwork_can_help_avert_the_pe.html
Most health care money in the United States goes largely for the care of people with complex chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart failure, cancer, lung disease, and the like. We will soon see many more individuals with these illnesses because of two factors: the…
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Added by Stephen C Schimpff on April 13, 2010 at 11:08am —
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Colleagues,
You may recall an earlier post about
Fabienne Jean, a dancer from Haiti's National Theater who lost her right leg to infection and subsequent amputation in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake,
"Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins", ...…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 13, 2010 at 10:30am —
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We have tried the Kindle for use with medical students, and as Dr. Kim suggests the gray tones do not work for medical illustration. However, the bigger problem that we found was having medical textbook publishers move their titles to e-reader format with pictures. When we tested, very few publishers had e-editions of the necessry medical textbooks. The problem should be bigger today because there are now more e-formats.
In our testing, when we were able to find an e-version…
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Added by Robert (Bob) E. Griffin on April 8, 2010 at 8:30am —
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Colleagues,
One of MedTech-IQ's members,
Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, is also one of the Internet's top medical bloggers. Please see one his recent posts at medpageTODAY's KevinMD.com ,
"An iPad should be mandatory in medical school",… Continue
Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 8, 2010 at 7:30am —
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Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.…
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Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on March 22, 2010 at 2:48am —
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Colleagues,
As reported in Harvard Business Review ... According to Clay Christensen, author of
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to
Fail ... Disruptive innovation seems to have bypassed the health care industry...
...
Clay Christensen’s
theory predicts that entrenched companies, products and services are often “disrupted” from below by competitors who are able to meet the needs of most current…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2010 at 3:00pm —
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Folks-
Attached are pdf versions of a few recent talks from the FDA workshop on PGx. Also I recommend that those people that don't have a basic understanding of PGx go to the web site from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology ("The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics - http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).
Thanks - Gerry…
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Added by Gerry Higgins on March 15, 2010 at 9:14am —
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Colleagues,
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) published an RFI
(Request For Information) soliciting ideas on how to
accelerate U.S. commercialization of federally funded Academic research...
... Federally-funded research has played a major role in the development of multiple recent…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 26, 2010 at 9:00am —
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Colleagues,
As reported in US News and World Report ...
To see full report:…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2010 at 9:33am —
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Colleagues,
This post is part of Harvard Business Review's Health Care Innovations Insight
Center...
...Here are excerpts from the 10 innovations that Harvard Business Review thinks will have a big impact
...
ENJOY!
CC
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1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 21, 2010 at 2:30pm —
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I went to my Orange County tooth extraction dentist yesterday. In my seven years as his patient, I thought I already know everything there is to know about teeth. Much to my
surprise, there are still things I don’t know about them.
For…
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Added by Robert J. Turner on March 19, 2010 at 3:24am —
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March 16, 2010
Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced
FOND-DES-BLANCS, Haiti — Before the earthquake…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 16, 2010 at 5:36pm —
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Colleagues,
Two of the most accomplished authors in
Triple Helix ...
Academic, Industry, Government ... technology transfer strategy are
Eric Campbell, PhD, Director of Research, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, and
Joshua Powers, Ph.D, Chair, Department of…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 9:00am —
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In Haiti’s Hour of Need, Texting “4636” Became a Lifeline
A boy uses a cell phone in Leogane, Haiti, January 20. The…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 11, 2010 at 10:47pm —
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Colleagues,
As reported by MIT Tech Review ... An interview with P4 (Predictive, Personalized, Preventative, Participatory) pioneer, Dr Leroy Hood of the Institute for Systems Biology on the future of personalized medicine ...
Personalized medicine: Leroy Hood, founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, in Seattle, has a vision of the future of medicine that he calls the “P4” approach. Credit: Institute for Systems…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 9, 2010 at 8:21am —
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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Appoints Board of Directors and CEO
New York, NY – The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF), established by
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to raise money for Haiti relief and
recovery efforts after the January
earthquake, has appointed a Board of Directors and Chief…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 9, 2010 at 7:48pm —
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Harrisburg Health Information Exchange holding critical meetings
The Harrisburg Health Information Exchange will host two meetings this month to advance Electronic Medical Records, or EMR, technology between physician practices and health care providers.
The meetings will be at 3 p.m. March 17 and at 8:30 am March 27, both at the Wildwood Conference Center at Harrisburg Area Community College.
We want to ensure every physician practice and health care provider…
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Added by Kelly Lewis on March 7, 2010 at 1:13pm —
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