All Blog Posts Tagged 'health' (128)

"Who Killed Healthcare?"

MedTechIQ Member Oliver Lubin writes...

...on the subject of publications, not sure if i mentioned but just finished Regina Hertzlinger's "Who killed healthcare?" i know im new to the group so im sure this has already been touted before, but in case it hasn't, its a great read with a lot of practical thoughts. highly recommended.

-Oliver

Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

By MedTechIQ Member, Dr Eric Noji, MD, Updated Spanish Version:"Public Health Consequences of Disasters" by Noji & Rivas

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

New Publications from PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) /WHO (World Health Organization)

"The Consequences of Disasters on Public Health", co-authored by MedTechIQ member Eric K. Noji, MD, was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1999 and is the most widely used educational textbook on disasters. PAHO has just published an updated Spanish version of this important work...

"Impacto de los Desastres en la… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 23, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

New U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Report: Personalized Health Care: Pioneers, Partnerships, Progress (November 2008)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

In one of the last major reports of President's Bush's administration on healthcare, a new report is available for download at: http://www.hhs.gov/myhealthcare/news/phc_2008_report.pdf

The report focuses on a sampling of activities that are now

underway in the private and academic health care sectors toward integrating

personalized health care into clinical practice. This includes efforts to employ… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 17, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

African Healthcare Projects

Today’s cell phones have the camera resolution, screen size and computing speed to become health care power tools.

Colleagues,

As reported in today's Government Health IT,

The cell phone might be the most significant information technology for improving health care since e-mail. The evidence is everywhere. In Botswana and Malawi, the Africa Teledermatology Project uses cameras and laptop PCs to capture and send images of patients to specialists in other African… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 7, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Google Health

Following the recent Health 2.0 Conference, Roni Ziegler, Google Health product manager was interviewed, and provided an interesting perspective, coming from the software giant. She cautiously admitted that Google wants to "tamp down expectations that the Internet search leader might be able to cure all that ails health care". There's clearly much more still to follow in the… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on November 4, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

To Your Health

For those who haven't seen a Personal Health Record (PHR) service up close, I'd recommend a tour of Google Health. Along with Aetna & Microsoft, they have invested significant resources towards e-personalization of health care delivery. Scores of other ventures exist, as well, in this rapidly expanding space. Read all about it!

Added by Clymer/JR on October 29, 2008 at 10:40am — No Comments

Wal-Mart Offers Employees Personal Health Records

iHealthBeat reports that Wal-Mart is offering some of its employees personal health records using technology from WebMD Health and Dossia, an employer coalition. Wal-Mart is one of eight companies involved in Dossia. This could be an interesting development on the tail of the GoogleHealth, Microsoft HealthVault & Aetna PHR launches. Are we approaching a tipping point?

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 2, 2008 at 2:27pm — No Comments

New global communications infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

O3b Networks Ltd. today announced it will begin deployment of a new global communications infrastructure to provide high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Backed with financial and operational support from Google Inc., Liberty Global, Inc. and HSBC Principal Investments, the new system will reduce bandwidth costs for telecommunications operators (telcos)… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 12, 2008 at 12:05pm — No Comments