CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight's Blog – April 2010 Archive (3)

Haitian Dancer ... featured in earlier post ... Caught between Two Caregivers

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You may recall an earlier post about Fabienne Jean, a dancer from Haiti's National Theater who lost her right leg to infection and subsequent amputation in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, "Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins", ...…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 13, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Should iPads be mandatory in medical school? ... Blog by Joseph Kim, MD, MPH

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One of MedTech-IQ's members, Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, is also one of the Internet's top medical bloggers. Please see one his recent posts at medpageTODAY's KevinMD.com , "An iPad should be mandatory in medical school",… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 8, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

Clay Christensen: How to Bring Disruptive Innovation to Health Care

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As reported in Harvard Business Review ... According to Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail ... Disruptive innovation seems to have bypassed the health care industry...

...Clay Christensen’s theory predicts that entrenched companies, products and services are often “disrupted” from below by competitors who are able to meet the needs of most current… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments