CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight's Blog – March 2010 Archive (8)

Please Check-Out New Blog ... The cHealth Blog ... By MedTech-IQ member, Joseph Kvedar

Colleagues,

Joseph Kvedar, former President, American Telemedicine Association (ATA), and present Director, Center for Connected Health, has launched a new blog The… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 28, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

U.S. White House Office of Science & Technology Issues ... Request For Information (RFI) on University Research Commercialization

Colleagues,

Yesterday, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) published an RFI (Request For Information) soliciting ideas on how to accelerate U.S. commercialization of federally funded Academic research...

... Federally-funded research has played a major role in the development of multiple recent… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 26, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Top 100 Life Science Universities in the World

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As reported in US News and World Report ...

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2010 at 9:33am — 1 Comment

10 Innovations That Will Transform Medicine ... Harvard Business Review

Colleagues,

This post is part of Harvard Business Review's Health Care Innovations Insight Center...

...Here are excerpts from the 10 innovations that Harvard Business Review thinks will have a big impact ...

ENJOY!

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1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 21, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

What's Hot at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas

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One of the most important conferences in the connected media world of social networking, Web 2.0 and, maybe, emerging Enterprise 2.0 applications, is this week's South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas. See what's been deemed to be "Hot" by MediaPost's "Social Media Insider" ...

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Fixing Academic Technology Transfer

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Two of the most accomplished authors in Triple Helix ... Academic, Industry, Government ... technology transfer strategy are Eric Campbell, PhD, Director of Research, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, and Joshua Powers, Ph.D, Chair, Department of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

U.S. Congress (House of Representatives) Ban on Earmarks to For-Profit Entities ... Does it Signal a Fundamental Shift in Business Model?

Colleagues,

Over the years, a non-trivial amount of funds have been committed to advanced medical technology research thru the Congressional Special Interest appropriations or Earmarking process. In a jolt to the way that business has been done over the last couple of decades, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee announced last week that it will no longer approve requests for earmarks directed to for-profit entities. The Committee leadership said that these new policies are not… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 15, 2010 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

A Vision for Personalized Medicine

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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