All Blog Posts Tagged 'Medicine' (5)

A Vision for Personalized Medicine

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… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 9, 2010 at 8:21am — 1 Comment

Mammograms as a Stalking Horse for Issues in Healthcare Reform

As we watch the reform movement in Washington, we see and hear so many misconceptions. A current one relates to mammography. A few weeks ago guidelines were published in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine stating, in effect, that women between ages 50 and 75 with no history of breast cancer in their family and normal mammograms to date could probably switch from annual to biannual exams. And women between ages 40 and 50 probably did not need to get mammograms as had been previously… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 7, 2009 at 9:44am — 2 Comments

Web 2.0 in Health care - Health 2.0

With increasing avenues for communication and knowledge dissemination, the practice of health care is changing faster than imagined. Free services like you tube, face book, Wikis, blogs, Twitter, social networks eg. Patientslikeme and a host of other services provide a health consumer with ample information and opinions. No longer is a patient forced to blindly trust his doctor"s judgment.… Continue

Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on October 5, 2009 at 8:30am — 3 Comments

Job opportunity for PhD, MD or equivalent with DOD/VA Dataset Experience - Washington DC Area.

Colleagues,

...Another job opportunity from the MedTechIQ on Linkedin group...

From Mike Snedecor, MD, MPH

Snedecor Healthcare Consulting, LLC

Job opportunity for PhD, MD or equivalent with extensive skill with longitudinal health datasets, preferably in the DoD or VA system. Washington DC area.

A colleague's company is looking to hire a full-time manager to work at the VA. Ideally, they would like a someone with health related experience in the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 29, 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments

June 2008 NAE/IOM workshop on harnessing Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care

A message from Proctor Reid to all members of Systems Engineering on MedTechIQ!

All, You might be interested in a recently posted prepub summary of a June 2008 NAE/IOM workshop on harnessing Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the MHS. To read the summary or download a free pdf version go to the National Academies Press website at ttp://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12504

Proctor

Visit Systems Engineering… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 2, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments