All Blog Posts Tagged 'medicine' (38)

New Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) ... Opens With $97 million in Fiscal Year 2010

Colleagues,

The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Defense Health Program Medical Research and Development Office is soliciting proposals for the Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Awards to be funded beginning in fiscal year 2010 (FY10)...The DMRDP Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Award is being offered for the first time in FY10 ...and anticipates that approximately $97… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 2, 2009 at 4:12pm — 2 Comments

38th WORLD CONGRESS ON MILITARY MEDICINE - 4-9 OCTOBER 2009 - KUALA LUMPUR

38th WORLD CONGRESS ON MILITARY MEDICINE

4-9 OCTOBER 2009 • KUALA LUMPUR CONVENTION CENTRE

www.wcmmkl2009.com

CALL FOR PAPER

The Ministry of Defence, Malaysia is proud to be the host and organiser of the 38th World Congress

On Military Medicine 2009, at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), from 4 - 9 October 2009.

Themed “Health Services Support in Operations”, the 38th WCMM 2009 program consists of:

• Plenary Sessions

• Round… Continue

Added by Denise Ang on May 7, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

New Video Resources @ MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

In our continuing quest to deliver you the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", please see below the new video titles now available at the MedTechIQ "VideoLibrary",… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 29, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

VideoWebCast...Congressional Testimony...DOD Health Information IT - AHLTA is “Intolerable,” Where Do We Go From Here?

Colleagues,

In a remarkable Congressional hearing last week entitled, AHLTA is “Intolerable,” Where Do We Go From Here?, Department of Defense (DOD) senior medical officials spoke frankly of the challenges and opportunities they face in securing the full power of health information technology (See:Tuesday, March 24, 2009 – 10:00 am –2118 Rayburn –… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 29, 2009 at 1:30pm — 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

Change of guard at DARPA

Colleagues,

As reported in HS Daily Wire...After eight years at the helm of the Pentagon's advanced research arm, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Tony Tether has been asked by the Obama administration to leave office by 20 February...The new parlor game in Washington, DC these past couple of days has been the guessing game about who will succeed Tether at DARPA. Noah Shachtman, a maven in this business, says several different names keep coming up. In no particular… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 17, 2009 at 2:58pm — 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

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

Remember Me

Thanks to Steve Douglas (CEO, Data Physics Research, Inc) for this reference. The video speaks for itself. Prepare to be moved!!!

Added by Clymer/JR on December 12, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Effort to link EHR databases proclaimed success by DoD & VA

Colleagues,

This message was transmitted to the BioMedical Informatics Group earlier today. You may find it of interest...If indeed it is accurate, it may set the stage for much wider collaboration, data mining, ect., going forward...

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

Colleagues,

As reported by the Armed Forces Press Service...During a press conference last week, Dr. Gerald Cross, the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 2, 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 - Part 3

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

New members not accounted for on previous 2 updates include:

Industry:

Shabri Moore: Financial Advisor

John Hotchkiss: Software & Audio/Visual Technology to support Patient Safety & improve care in Critical Care Environments

Ed Ponatoski: Health & Health Facility Planning, Strategic Planning, Organizational Development

Roger Bagwell: Active motion medical… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Report: Army to spend $50M on video games

Colleagues,

(This was sent earlier to the Medical Modeling and Simulation Group)

As reported in Washington Business Journal...

The Army is finally getting with the program ...They are getting serious about games!...

The Army plans to spend some $50 million over five years on combat video games to train soldiers, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.

To oversee this investment, the Army created a game-training unit named, as military… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 25, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

New $75,000 Funding Opportunity Announced by MedTechIQ member, Dr. Timothy Gerrity

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

MedTechIQ Member, Dr Timothy Gerrity, announces a new Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) Solicitation.

The CCAT at California State University San Bernardino will fund new opportunities to support commercialization of advanced military health technologies. The CCAT will accept applications from industry, academic research organizations, and government laboratories beginning Wednesday,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 9:30am — 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

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.

The jobs… Continue

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