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Time to Rethink How We Pay for Medical Care and Healthcare

Today we mostly have prepaid medical care insurance with some co-pays and deductibles – both with commercial insurance and with Medicare. In other words, our insurance covers essentially everything from basic and routine care to the catastrophic. And the insurance pays out based on units of care – a visit, a test, a procedure, a hospitalization, a prescription. This creates a system in which providers (physicians, hospitals, drug and device companies, others) get paid for a unit of activity –… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on July 10, 2010 at 5:22pm — 3 Comments

Weight Loss Expert Panel includes Dietitian Lisa Nelson

Next month dietitian Lisa Nelson with be joining me as part of our expert panel as we cover Weight Loss from A to HCG: An Honest Discussion as part of the Conversations with the Masters of Healing.

Here’s a little background information on Lisa Nelson RD:

Lisa Nelson RD, founder and owner of HeartHealthMadeEasy.com and Health… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on July 8, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Optimal Health Teleseries - Conversations with the Masters of Healing

This year’s Personal Health Telesummit is titled, "Conversations with the Masters of Healing.” This is by no means your usual seminar. It is a rare opportunity for you to listen, learn, change your life, and speak to the most incredible practitioners of healthcare and healing. Here is the link for Personal Health Telesummit’s schedule and speaker lineup:…

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Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on July 6, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Guest Blog...Jon Linkous, CEO, American Telemedicine Association (ATA) ... It’s mHealth, but will it be a Revolution?

Colleagues,

Please see guest blog from MedTech-IQ member, Jon Linkous from his American Telemedicine Association (ATA) blog ...

ENJOY!

CC

The funny thing about “mHealth” is…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 5, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Top 10 Blogs to Boost Your Social Network Savvy

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 4, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Stem Cell Research with Dr. Maharaj

Dr. Dipnarine Maharaj is joining us for Conversations with the Masters of Healing. He'll be providing an in-depth look into stem cell research.

Here’s a little background information on Dr. Maharaj:

Dipnarine Maharaj, MD, FACP, is the Medical Director and founder of the South Florida Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant Institute, one of the few completely outpatient bone marrow/stem cell… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on July 1, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Today’s Health Insurance Has Perverse Incentives

Whether we have commercial insurance through our employer or Medicare, the incentives are poorly aligned to lower costs and improve quality. In fact, they actually encourage greater and greater expenditures. In most instances, our insurance covers everything from prevention to basic routine care to complex care of serious illness. Coverage may not be all that good for some things like preventive care and our primary care physician feels underpaid for routine visits but nevertheless we basically… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on July 1, 2010 at 8:47am — No Comments

Forecasting and Early Warning for Infectious Disease Crises: A Critical Component to Preparedness

Infectious Disease Crises and

Disasters: Statement of the Problem

Any country, including the United States, is exposed to the world's

infectious disease traffic through the air transportation and commerce

grid. Whether infectious disease hazards emerge locally or are

introduced from abroad, pre-event situational awareness is essential for

rapid identification of risk and preemptive mitigation.

Drawing from… Continue

Added by James M. Wilson V, M.D. on June 29, 2010 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Hormone Harmony and Dr. Alicia Stanton

Conversations with the Masters of Healing begins next month and we have Dr. Alicia Stanton joining the amazing speaker line-up. This is a FREE teleseries!

Here’s a little background information on Dr. Alicia Stanton:

Dr. Alicia Stanton is one of the country's leading experts on womens health and hormone therapy. Dr. Stanton practices anti-aging and integrative medicine at BodyLogicMD of… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on June 29, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Kitware's New Approach to Quantify Risk of Developing Lung Cancer published in Academic Radiology

Colleagues,

Thank you to MedTech-IQ member, Rick Avila of Kitware, Inc. for this heads up on early findings regarding a new approach his company is pioneering to quantitatively measure lung cancer risk. Rick, Kitware’s Senior Director of Healthcare Solutions, was the lead investigator on the research. Expect to see press releases similar to below on these… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Conversations with the Masters of Healing - Free Teleseminar Intensive

I’m thrilled to announce the kick off of my inaugural teleseminar intensive – Conversations with the Masters of Healing – starting next month! I’ve wanted to organize this event for quite some time and I so look forward to sharing these amazing individuals with you.

"Conversations with the Masters of Healing" is a rare opportunity for you to listen, learn, change your life, and speak to the most incredible practitioners of healthcare and healing.… Continue

Added by Cynthia Shelby-Lane, MD on June 25, 2010 at 2:50pm — 1 Comment

A Disease Industry vs. A Healthcare System

Today America does not have a true healthcare system that focuses on wellness and disease prevention. Rather it focuses on disease diagnosis and treatment paid for on a unit basis. Each visit, each procedure, each test, each drug, each hospitalization is charged for. The result is more and more units of care are given rather than a focus on how to give good preventive care and how to coordinate the care of those with complex chronic illnesses. As long as we have a disease industry – driven by… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 24, 2010 at 5:36pm — 3 Comments

A Roadmap to Broadband Adoption Conference - TODAY LIVE coverage

Broadband for America, NextGenWeb, Net Literacy, and USIIA have partnered to host "A Roadmap to Broadband Adoption Conference" taking place today in Washington, DC.

Follow coverage of the conference on the Broadband for America blog here, tweets by me here using #BBRoadmap and watch the speakers via livestream… Continue

Added by Christine Stineman on June 22, 2010 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Technology & Innovation can check rising health costs

Technology & innovation can check rising health costs

By Joel White, Executive Director of the Health IT Now Coalition

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06/21/10 10:38 AM…

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Added by Christine Stineman on June 22, 2010 at 9:40am — No Comments

Guest Blog: Don Jones, Qualcomm ... We're Shaping the Future: World Economic Forum on Advancing mHealth

Colleagues,

Please see first blog post from a good friend of MedTech-IQ, Don Jones, Vice-President of Business Development in Health & Life Sciences, Qualcomm ...

ENJOY!

CC

Don Jones, Vice…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 19, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

MedTech-IQ ... Who Are You? ... Where Are You From? ... What Do We Do?

Colleagues,

Every so often we have to take time out, take stock, and ask ...

Who are we? Where do we come from? What do we do? Does it matter? ....

So let's look at the MedTech-IQ community ....…

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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on June 15, 2010 at 10:45am — 2 Comments

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

Telemedicine & mHealth in Haiti: Applying Global Lessons to the Development of Solutions

EVENT SYNOPSIS:…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on June 10, 2010 at 9:41pm — 9 Comments

Turbulence Ahead in Health Care

The decade ahead is one likely to be full of turbulence. How everything will shake out is anybody’s guess.

But we can be sure that technology advancements will slow for no one. The rate of medical technology advancement now is very fast and the speed will only accelerate. One big problem is that technology advances so fast that there is no time for a purchase – say new CT scanner or diagnostic device in a clinical laboratory – to create any return on the investment before a new or… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on June 10, 2010 at 4:26pm — No Comments

WBT2011 Enlists MedTech - IQ

The WBT2011 will begin accepting on-line applications in July. However, we want to hear from you, the MedTech-IQ Community.

Innovators - What are the top innovations emerging in your industry sectors?

Strategic Partners - What are the technologies of tomorrow that WBT can bring to market today?

Added by Amanda Radovic on June 8, 2010 at 3:39pm — 1 Comment

Blue Oceans

Wow. Who would have thought that Apple would dethrone Microsoft in the category of market capitalization. They did just that! For Apple 'followers', who have always seen Microsoft through some Manichean prism, this event takes on religious proportions. For the rest of us Apple admirers (who don't rely on anti-psychotic meds to get through the day), however, this is noteworthy for what it reveals about… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on June 7, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments