Colleagues,
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…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2010 at 3:00pm —
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Taking care of two aging parents, or having too much idle time ... feel…
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Milan, Italy March 19, 2010 - What if lowering your stress level was as easy and as much fun as playing a video game? What if all of the work was automated for you, with reminders on your mobile phone? What if the system that achieved this was so smart, it changed the program the second you changed your behavior?
This is the vision of a new project funded by ICT for Health, European Commission. Called Interreality in the Management and Treatment…
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Added by James Cullen on April 1, 2010 at 2:11am —
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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 —
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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…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 26, 2010 at 9:00am —
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Colleagues,
As reported in US News and World Report ...
To see full report:…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2010 at 9:33am —
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Smart phones and small hand held devices are making medicine safer and faster. They are being used to provide information, administrative and patient management services.And predictably, their use is shooting up.…
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Added by Dr.Neelesh Bhandari on March 22, 2010 at 2:48am —
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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 —
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I went to my Orange County tooth extraction dentist yesterday. In my seven years as his patient, I thought I already know everything there is to know about teeth. Much to my
surprise, there are still things I don’t know about them.
For…
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Added by Robert J. Turner on March 19, 2010 at 3:24am —
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Colleagues,
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" ...
ENJOY!
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 8:00pm —
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March 16, 2010
Rural Haiti Struggles to Absorb Displaced
FOND-DES-BLANCS, Haiti — Before the earthquake…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 16, 2010 at 5:36pm —
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Broadband for America (BfA) Responds To National Broadband Plan
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Added by Christine Stineman on March 16, 2010 at 12:31pm —
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Colleagues,
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…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 16, 2010 at 9:00am —
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Colleagues,
It is our privilege to announce to you that registration for the 15th Annual CyberPsychology and CyberTherapy Conference (CT15), the official conference of the International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, & Rehabilitation (iACToR), is now open!
Please visit
www.e-therapy2010.org to begin your registration process to this groundbreaking conference! Early Registration ends on May 15, 2010 and space is…
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Added by James Cullen on March 15, 2010 at 5:46pm —
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Folks-
Attached are pdf versions of a few recent talks from the FDA workshop on PGx. Also I recommend that those people that don't have a basic understanding of PGx go to the web site from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology ("The Future of Medicine: Pharmacogenomics - http://user.accp1.org/index_new.html).
Thanks - Gerry…
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Added by Gerry Higgins on March 15, 2010 at 9:14am —
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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…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 15, 2010 at 8:00am —
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Video of presentations from the Jan 25-27, 2010 workshop on Medical Device Interoperability have been uploaded:
Workshop slides:…
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Added by Julian Goldman on March 12, 2010 at 12:13am —
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In Haiti’s Hour of Need, Texting “4636” Became a Lifeline

A boy uses a cell phone in Leogane, Haiti, January 20. The…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 11, 2010 at 10:47pm —
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Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Appoints Board of Directors and CEO
New York, NY – The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF), established by
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to raise money for Haiti relief and
recovery efforts after the January
earthquake, has appointed a Board of Directors and Chief…
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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on March 9, 2010 at 7:48pm —
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Colleagues,
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…
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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 9, 2010 at 8:21am —
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