CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight's Blog – October 2008 Archive (12)

Hard Times?...Tools to Optimize Business & Personal Budgets - CNN Money

CNN Money reports - Struggling to keep your finances straight? These 7 new technologies can help business owners compare credit cards, analyze budgets and get funding.

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"Big Thinker" Webinar, Thursday, 23 October 2008 - MedTechIQ & The Brain

Colleagues,

The Brain Technologies, Inc. "Big Thinker" Webinar featuring the MedTechIQ social network went well earlier today. Please see the link to the press release at:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/medtechiq/thebrain/prweb1515374.htm

For those interested in learning more about MedTechIQ...a Webspace for Creating, Discovering, Managing & Sharing Information on Medical Technology...the "Big Thinker" Webinar will be available online shortly… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 23, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

T2Biosystems Announces Strategic Investment with In-Q-Tel

As reported in BioSpace, T2 Biosystems, Inc., a company developing the first portable medical diagnostic products which combine nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) technology, today announced a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm. T2 Biosystems’ technology has been validated in multiple published journal articles and has shown to accurately analyze viruses, bacteria, proteins, hormones, DNA, small… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 18, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Risk Capital Co-op Explores New Model of Early Stage Funding

Colleagues,

Interesting article describing a Seattle based hybrid fund - cross between an Angel network and Early Stage VC. Appears they are deftly targeting an underserved niche.

In challenging times, may be a strategy with some long term merit. LP risk is limited. Ideal, perhaps, for med tech start-ups emerging from labs in regional clusters where Risk Capital is relatively scarce, but Medical Technology is excellent, i.e., National Capital Area (MD/DC/VA), Ohio… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 16, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Build a Better Health Care System & Win $10 Million

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Interesting article posted in the Wall Street Journal Blog, http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/10/15/build-a-better-health-care-system-win-10-million/#comment-323079. It appears that the X PRIZE Foundation, the nation’s pre-eminent philanthropic organization focused on innovation through competition & the WellPoint Foundation, are initiating a $10 million bounty to generate new mechanisms to address the health care system… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 16, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Hospitals outsource teleradiology services to India

Colleagues,

FYI. See article from Washington Post transmitted to MedTechIQ "Imaging" Group.

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Hospitals around the world, including some in the U.S., are outsourcing teleradiology services to Bangalore, India, because the city offers lower costs and convenience for institutions facing a shortage of radiologists. Some experts said medical services that do not need direct interaction with… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 15, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Federal Agency - HRSA - Awards $18.9M in Grants for EHRs & Health IT

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $18.9 million in grants to help 25 organizations implement electronic health records and other health IT, Government Health IT reports.

HRSA officials said the grants will help meet the Bush administration's goal for most U.S. residents to have EHRs by 2014.

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Americans Expect Companies to Have Social-Media Presence

An overwhelming majority (93 percent) of online Americans say companies should have a social-media presence, and 85 percent believe these companies also should be interacting with consumers through social media, according to research from Cone, writes MarketingCharts.

The 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study also reveals the depth and breadth of social media interaction with… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 14, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Telemedicine Project Targets Rural Areas in Northern Pakistan

Azhar,

FYI.

The State Department, IBM and other public and private organizations have launched a telemedicine project to treat patients in remote, medically underserved areas of Northern Pakistan, Government Health IT reports.

The Pakistan Telemedicine Project uses wireless broadband technology, video-conferencing and the Internet to connect the project's central coordinating facility at the Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi with a hospital in Attock District… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 11, 2008 at 7:30pm — 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

Top 15 Universities That Turn Research Into Revenue (Forbes)

Excellent Forbes article on what universities are monetizing their research & how. Forbes extracts data from the recent AUTM (Association of University Technology Managers) 2006 report on what universities are most successfully translating academic discovery to market. Your comments?

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 1, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

New Links & Members

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

- As recommended by MedTechIQ members, Chuck Doarn, Editor In Chief, Telemedicine & eHealth Journal and Peter Yellowlees, Deputy Editor, MedScape Journal of Medicine, we've established direct links to those publications. We have also established a link to MedTechIQ member, Bertalan "Berci" Mesko's, excellent medical bolg - ScienceRoll.

- We have also been favored by the joining of a number of interesting… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on October 1, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments