March 2009 Blog Posts (34)

Study: Social networks overtake e-mail

Colleagues,

As reported in the Washington Business Journal...Propelled by the growth of Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., social networks are now more popular than emailing on the internet, according to a Nielsen study. In fact, Facebook had a 168 percent increase in users, the study said, while Mountain View, Calif.-based LinkedIn had a 137 percent increase. The biggest growth spurt for Facebook has been in the category of users from 35 to 49 years of age.

Read on at:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 10, 2009 at 4:34pm — 1 Comment

Billions in U.S. stimulus money seen for technology

Colleagues,

As reported in Federal Computer Weekly...As much as $100 billion in economic stimulus law funding may flow to technology companies for energy efficiency, broadband, electronic health records and education technology, according to an analysis by TechAmerica.

About half of the $100 billion will be distributed through state governments and agencies, said Olga Grkavac, the organization's executive vice president for the public sector. “We expect about $50 billion… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 10, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Twitter, YouTube, Other Social Media Tools Becoming Popular in Medical World

Colleagues,

As reported in iHealthBeat...Social networking tools -- such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter -- are moving into the medical world. In an iHealthBeat Special Report by Kelly Wilkinson, health care and social media experts discuss the trend.

The Special Report includes comments from:

* Lee Aese, manager of syndication and social media at the Mayo Clinic;

* Russ Cucina, associate medical director for information technology at University of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 7, 2009 at 6:17pm — No Comments

NIH Posts Call for $200M in Stimulus Grants

Colleagues,

As reported in Genome Web News...The National Institutes of Health has put out a call for certain new grants it will fund with money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and it is outlining some areas it will support with the funds.

NIH has kicked off its stimulus package spending with a new Challenge Grants program, fuelled by at least $200 million in fiscal years 2009 and 2010, which is expected to fund 200 or more grants from applicants who get… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 5, 2009 at 7:01pm — 2 Comments

Your Invited Medical Device Exclusive

HELP US CELEBRATE: The Official Launch of e-ZASSI – A DNA Powered Life Science Community

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WHO: e-Zassi – A global organization that specializes in medical device networking and innovation assessment

WHY: If you desire clients in the life-science community in a business network exclusively for the medical device professionals and key members

WHAT: e-Zassi is a medical device exclusive… Continue

Added by James Quinn on March 4, 2009 at 10:49am — No Comments

Intelligent Healthcare Information Integration 3/2/09

Colleagues,

As recommended by MedTechIQ member, Ron Pion, MD, an excellent post from Dr. Gregg Alexander, a grunt-in-the-trenches pediatrician and geek.

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U.S. Healthcare Overhaul? Sure … in 5 Easy Steps!

The unfettered free market system has done about as well for Healthcare as it did for its cousin, Finance. I personally believe in capitalism, but perhaps guided capitalism is necessary… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 4, 2009 at 6:56am — No Comments

HHS Policy Debate

AP reports on a considered change by the Dept of Health & Human Services (DHHS) in the "conscience" clause, which as implemented by the Bush administration, expanded protection for medical providers refusing to perform procedures on "moral grounds". There has been a heated debate between abortion opponents who favor these new rules, and advocates who fear a wholesale denial of services. The Obama… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 3, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Linux Under Assault (By Guess Whom)

It had been at least 24 hours without a new Microsoft law suit. Well, they're at it again in classic Microsoft fashion with minions of attorneys trying legal intimidation to suppress anything NIH (not invented here). This time, they're suing Tom-Tom. The case is interesting, because it calls a lie to company efforts to coexist with the Linux open-source community. Read commentary from open source experts in this… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 3, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Matchmaking 2.0

Although many social networks have abandoned disease-specific groupings to solicit clinical trial candidates, the concept (patient-to-trial matchmaking service) is being resurrected with some new twists. Read about it in this article from eCliniqua.

Added by Clymer/JR on March 2, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Newspeak!!!

SCREED ALERT!!! (Not a typo, although 'SCREWED' may be equally appropriate)

Orwell called it 'newspeak' and 'doublethink', and I'm beginning to feel like "1984"'s Winston Smith. MedTechIQ recently revealed a freshly minted OMB instrument entitled A New Era of Responsibility-Renewing America’s Promise. Is anyone really swallowing whole this offensive drivel? Sadly, I know the answer, and it… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 2, 2009 at 7:30pm — 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

Privacy Lost

An interesting article, exposing PHR vulnerabilities. M. Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, was able to access electronic medical records on computers that had the peer-to-peer programs stored on their hard drives. The medical files contained detailed personal data on physical and mental diagnoses, which a hacker could use to not only embarrass a patient but also to… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 2, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Safer Browsing

Though somewhat technical, this paper addresses growing concerns over browser insecurity. It describes the current climate well: as web sites (have) evolved into dynamic web applications composing content from various sources, browsers have become multi-principal operating environments with resources shared among mutually distrusting web site principals. The paper introduces readers to a Microsoft Research/Univ of… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 2, 2009 at 10:58am — No Comments

Think Virtual

If you think cloud, think virtualization, think large cap companies investing in data center delivery services, think Intel 'Nehalem™' processors, and now think… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 2, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments