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Foreign Market Entry Techniques for Everyone Else

In today’s globalized world, competition has increased multifold for most businesses. As globalization brings it with both opportunities and challenges, the marketplace has evolved to a point where it is imperative for companies to become global. This is an opportunity they can ignore at their own peril. International sales should become an essential part of an organization’s business plan.

The cost advantages that accrue from producing overseas, the revenue opportunities from foreign…

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Added by Joseph Wilcox on March 29, 2019 at 7:16am — No Comments

Current and future USFDA food import and export safety regulations

The US economy’s appetite for ingesting food imports is phenomenal, to use a mild term. How else does one describe an economy that takes in $49 billion a year? Considering that the FDA is the sole regulating agency that is tasked with overseeing imports of this magnitude, who can envy its responsibility? This is not all that the FDA does: its allied regulatory agencies monitor about half a million facilities in the US and abroad.

Since foods from…

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Added by Adam Fleming on November 17, 2017 at 5:23am — No Comments

Ukraine Will Pursue Hard Reforms This Fall, Finance Minister Says

After a week of back-to-back meetings in Washington, Oleksandr Danylyuk is tired. He gladly downs a cup of coffee before we turn on our microphones to discuss Ukraine’s economy. The affable forty-two-year old finance minister is one of the few reformers left in Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers and has a reputation as a doer. He’s in town for the International Monetary Fund’s and World Bank’s annual meetings.…

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Added by Adam Fleming on October 18, 2017 at 5:35am — No Comments

Uniform Customs and Practice standard and can be negotiated by over 30,000 banks worldwide

Letters of Credit are the primary instruments for assuring payment of goods sold internationally. This web session is designed to provide attendees with an end-to-end understanding of the L/C (letter of credit) process. From the beginning of a contractual agreement, through the letter of credit application process and actual negotiation of the L/C, this information-rich webinar will provide techniques that are indispensable to both importers and exporters.…

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Added by Adam Fleming on July 12, 2017 at 5:23am — No Comments

A glance at Good Clinical Practice regulations

Good Clinical Practices are a collectively bunched global scientific, quality and ethical standard relating to the following aspects of a clinical research:

  • Design
  • Conduct
  • Documentation (recording)
  • Report making

Relevant Good Clinical Practice regulations are to be followed by the sponsors of a clinical trial, no matter how big or small the trial or…

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Added by Adam Fleming on October 5, 2016 at 6:37am — No Comments

Haitian Dancer ... featured in earlier post ... Caught between Two Caregivers

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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 — No Comments

"Crisis Commons" ... Haiti Earthquake Relief - Open Source, Real-Time Networks, Info & Maps

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Thank you to MedTech-IQ members Michael Russel and Bart Stidham for informing me about CrisisCommons, host of CrisisCamp, at: http://www.crisiscommons.org/. Crisis Commons is an international volunteer network that creates open source tools for responders to mitigate disasters.



Crisis Commons includes:…



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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 21, 2010 at 8:47am — No Comments

Telemedicine in Haiti ... A Humble Assessment of Where We Are

Colleagues,



First, I want to thank the many of you who have shared your thoughts on how emerging medical technologies - Telemedicine, mHealth, Distance Learning, ect.. - can be used to support the humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti. Clearly, this community has a great deal to offer.



As we all can see, the acute phase of the disaster relief response is still coalescing. Consequently, while conditions on the ground are improving, they are still chaotic. As in all major… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 20, 2010 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

From University of Miami Command Center ... Accounts from Port Au Prince Airport, Haiti - Project Medishare

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Please see email from MedTech-IQ member Scott Simmons from the University of Miami (UM) Command Center in Miami, sharing reports from the UM team in Haiti ...

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I just returned from our University of Miami (UM)/Project Medishare command center. Here is some background and the latest update:



Within 24 hours of the quake the UM/Medishare team set up a field medical facility within the UN-secured zone on the grounds… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 17, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

The MedTech-IQ Top 20 ... Videos

Colleagues,



See which videos the MedTech-IQ community have found most popular in the last month!

From our Library of 380 videos:

(Click title to see the clip)



1. Military Medicine: PTSD-Therapy for War-Related Trauma (Part 2)



2.… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 16, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010 - seeking 2 advisers by 4/11/09

To MedTech IQ members:



Here’s an opportunity to advise a Health IT Top 10 Finalist or Top 3 Grand Prize Winner for the upcoming

NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010.

Website launch - April 14, 2009

Media launch - April 21, 2009



Volunteer description:

4 hours of Health IT business development and promotion consulting services tailored to US Markets.



If you are interested, please forward a BIO/CV to me… Continue

Added by Lance M. on April 6, 2009 at 5:13pm — 5 Comments

New Member Update ... 20 March 2009

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Since our last update, the MedTechIQ community has grown by 50 members, now exceeding over 500 international medical technology experts. This is great. We are glad that the community is growing, and hope you find the network useful. That said, it is not about the numbers alone. We are endeavoring to build on the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration". So, fill out your Member profiles, join the MedTechIQ specialty groups of your interest, and share your… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 20, 2009 at 9:49pm — No Comments

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

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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

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

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

New Recommended Books at MedTechIQ

A message to all members of MedTechIQ



Colleagues,



New books recommended at MedTechIQ! http://medtechiq.ning.com/



- "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything", by Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya.



Sirkin, Hemerling and Bhattacharya argue that "Globality" is the next stage of globalization in which emerging-market companies, having rapidly absorbed the lessons of "Incumbent" businesses in North America, Europe… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 9, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Telemedicine Project Targets Rural Areas in Northern Pakistan

Azhar,



FYI.



The State Department, IBM and other public and private organizations have launched a telemedicine project to treat patients in remote, medically underserved areas of Northern Pakistan, Government Health IT reports.



The Pakistan Telemedicine Project uses wireless broadband technology, video-conferencing and the Internet to connect the project's central coordinating facility at the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi with a hospital in Attock District… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 11, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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