All Blog Posts Tagged 'informatics' (47)

"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

Transition Watch - Plum IT jobs in Obama administration

A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of Bio-Medical Informatics on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues.

This went out to the Biomedical Informatics Group a couple of days ago and I thought you might find it interesting also...

Government Computer News reports...The Obama administration will need to fill more than 300 presidentially appointed technology positions, with 21 of them being chief information officers, NextGov reports.

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 22, 2008 at 7:00pm — 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

Cleveland Clinic Announces Top 10 Medical Technologies for 2009

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

As reported in Cleveland Plain Dealer...Cleveland Clinic announced Top 10 high impact medical technologies for 2009. They are:

10. National health information exchange: Comprehensive system for electronic health records linking patients, doctors, hospitals, and payers.

9. Doppler-guided uterine artery occlusion: Experimental procedures that use things like tiny plugs and sound waves to starve fibroid… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 14, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Medpedia - Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, U of Mich - Collaborate to Create World's Largest Online Medical Encyclopedia

According to Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, physicians, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations and public health professionals are now volunteering to collaboratively build the most comprehensive medical clearinghouse in the world for information about health, medicine and the body.

This free public site… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 23, 2008 at 7:52am — No Comments

Military Health System to assess alternative strategies to electronic health record - AHLTA

In a recent edition of the Government Health IT, "What's Brewin", JULY 21, 2008, Bob Brewin reports that the Military Health System (MHS) plans to make a decision in the next week on developing an alternative for its electronic health record system, the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). In an interview with Dr. S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, Brewin notes that the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 21, 2008 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Webinar + Powerpoint featuring Col Claude Hines, Jr, New DOD Program Manager for Defense Health Information Management Systems

Excellent overview on DOD efforts to provide comprehensive health information management systems from the battlefield thru veterans care. Sponsored by Government Health IT. Just click launch presentation at the bottom of page to access the latest in military health… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 29, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments