CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight's Blog Posts Tagged 'health' (39)

New Member Update ... 20 March 2009

Colleagues,

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

NIH Challenge Grants (RFA-OD-09-003) – New Funding Opportunity for Small Businesses (due date: April 27, 2009)

Colleagues,

I have gone thru all the topic descriptions, and truly, there is something here for almost everybody. $1m over two years...

NIH has received new funds for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. The NIH has designated at least $200 million in FYs 2009 - 2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research. Read More…..

This new… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 19, 2009 at 9:08pm — No Comments

New Member Update...2 March 2009

Colleagues,

Thanks to your efforts, the MedTechIQ community continues to grow and attract new members, along with their talents and collective experience. We are all, in the end, potential digital resources for each other.

Please remember ... one of the most useful ways to leverage the MedTechIQ network is to explore the "Search" boxes. They efficiently open up for you multi-media information resources and potential expert contacts. Both the universal search, in the upper… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 2, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

MedTechIQ Member, Berci Mesko...Launches "Webicina" - A Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Package

Colleagues,

MedTechIQ member, Bertalan Mesko, author of Science Roll (#31 Global English Language Medical Blog), http://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/BertalanMesko, has launched an exciting new endeavor, "Webicina"!

"Webicina" is a Medical Web 2.0 Guidance Package. The tools and services of web 2.0 can facilitate the work for medical professionals and help patients as well. If you would like an even more efficient medical practice; more productive research, pharma team; or… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 25, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Letter from the Center for Connected Health to the MedTechIQ Community

From: Kvedar, Joseph Charles,M.D.

To: cc@clymergroup.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:47 PM

Subject: Recommendations Sent to Obama Healthcare Team

Dear Conrad,

President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Nominee Tom Daschle asked Americans – and we delivered – to give feedback and recommendations on ways to improve quality and expand access to care.

Per my earlier email, in late 2008, I hosted an… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 26, 2009 at 9:19pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Happy New Year! (Part 3)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Please welcome the following new Members of the MedTechIQ community...

To search all new member updates, just click "Blogs" tab on the top of thew MedTechIQ homepage, and then enter "member update" in the "Search" box...And now, the last of this crop of new members!

Academia/NonProfit:

Craig H Llewellyn: Military Medicine,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on January 9, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Healthcare Reform and Connected Health - Your input requested by Dec 31st

Colleagues,

See following post from MedTechIQ member, Dr Joseph Kvedar, Director, Center for Connected Health...

"...there is a possibility that disproportionate emphasis will be placed on increasing access to care through universal coverage and to traditional health information technology, or electronic medical records (EMRs)... I’d… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 23, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

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

Obama Says Health IT Included in Economic Stimulus Package

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

As reported in iHealthBeat....In a radio address last Saturday, President-elect Barack Obama said health IT would be included in an economic stimulus package being drafted by members of Congress, Government Health IT reports.

Obama said that modernizing the country's hospitals would be part of a major effort to finance an upgrade of the U.S. broadband infrastructure. He noted that the U.S. has dropped to 15th in… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 8, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

University of California wins $4M Gates grant to plan School of Global Health

Colleagues,

As transmitted to members of the "International Health & Humanitarian Assistance" Group earlier...

A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of International Health & Humanitarian Assistance on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

As reported in San Francisco Business Times...The University of California said Tuesday it got a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support planning for a potential… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 3, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Part 4

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

There have been a rash of new members joining MedTechIQ. And now, New Members not previously noted (if we have missed you, we will get you on the next update):

Industry:

Bob Waddington: Interactive Media, Simulation, Serious Games, ADL. USA

Phillip Singerman: Tech… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 2, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

New Member Update

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We hope MedTechIQ members in the United States had a great Thanksgiving.

The MedTechIQ community now numbers over 280 experts, executives, policy makers & enthusiasts of medical technology.

Some new members include:

Industry:

Kate Eltzroth: Consultant, Medical Technology Development/ Investments & Congressional Policy

Raj: Health Information… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

"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

See:… Continue

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

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