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Mammograms as a Stalking Horse for Issues in Healthcare Reform

As we watch the reform movement in Washington, we see and hear so many misconceptions. A current one relates to mammography. A few weeks ago guidelines were published in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine stating, in effect, that women between ages 50 and 75 with no history of breast cancer in their family and normal mammograms to date could probably switch from annual to biannual exams. And women between ages 40 and 50 probably did not need to get mammograms as had been previously… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on December 7, 2009 at 9:44am — 2 Comments

Company issues 2nd recall for tainted beef

For the second time this year, a Fresno beef company is recalling thousands of pounds of ground beef contaminated with a drug-resistant strain of salmonella.

Beef Packers Inc., owned by Cargill, announced the recall Friday. It covers 22,723 pounds of ground beef products that were sent to stores in Arizona and New Mexico.

WHY: Recall didn't include school… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 7, 2009 at 3:34am — No Comments

U.S. saddened by Russian nightclub blaze

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The United States said on Saturday that it was "deeply saddened" for the deadly fire in the Russian Urals city of Perm, in which at least 109 people were killed.

"Coming on the heels of the recent attack on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg train, this significant loss of life and multiple casualties are especially painful," said… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 5, 2009 at 7:06pm — No Comments

The game we've been waiting on

ATLANTA -- No more waiting. It's here.

Alabama vs. Florida, for the SEC championship and the right to play in the BCS National Championship Game.

Thank goodness for the Georgia Dome, too. The weather in Atlanta is nasty. It's bitterly cold, and the wind is howling.

But inside, it's heating up as a few of the fans are starting to file in. The first player on… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 5, 2009 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Can you have a real Christmas with a fake tree?

It's December. Time to get real for Jodi Yorke.

Late last week, Yorke, her husband, Brendan, and their 2-year-old son, Owen, went to the Christmas tree lot at Broadway and Montrose to pick out a tree -- a real tree.

Although Brendan grew up grabbing presents under an artificial tree -- Jodi's family went the real route.

"There's definitely something… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 5, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

Alabama, Florida braced for clash of the titans

ATLANTA — After another season of crunching numbers and grinding teeth over the gilded lean-to that is the Bowl Championship Series, this half of the equation, at least, is child's play.

Once again, Florida, ranked No. 1 in the BCS standings and the defending national champion, plays No. 2 Alabama today at the Georgia Dome for the Southeastern Conference championship. The winner will play in the BCS title game Jan. 7 against, in arguable order of probability, Texas, Cincinnati or… Continue

Added by bloglist on December 5, 2009 at 9:37am — No Comments

Leapfrog

There is no dearth of hospital "scorecards" being distributed annually; some are more credible than others by way of their reproducible and rigorous methodology. The Leapfrog Group is a serious participant in this analytical space. Today, Leapfrog released its 2009 selections for best US hospitals. Their survey (found at www.leapfroggroup.org) is the only… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on December 4, 2009 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Cancer Survivor

On April 2009, my sister's belly seemed to grow larger and larger by the day. She could feel sharp pains on her stomach. So we recommended her to go see a doctor. And when the tests were finished she was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer. We were so shocked. The doctor told us to prepare quite a lefty amount of money for the 6-month chemotherapy. We did all we could for my sister. When her chemo session started, she experienced nausea, headaches, lack of appetite, and more. It was… Continue

Added by Lacey Cormier on December 3, 2009 at 9:19pm — No Comments

FORA.TV: Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It

Summary

Ken Auletta talks about Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. Auletta tells the story of…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on December 3, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

What Intel "Really" Wants in the Healthcare Market?

Colleagues,

See this link to excerpts of a fascinating article written by veteran health information and technology analyst,

Dana Blankenhorn, in ZDNet Healthcare ... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

... the Intel Digital Health Group is as serious as a heart attack, and the Intel Reader is part of it. The device is actually a specialized… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 3, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Which Investors and Licensees Are On Your Wish List?

The WBTshowcase is the only event that allows you, the presenter, to invite up to 10 investors and licensees to attend the WBT2010 as your guest, at No Cost

Get selected to present at the WBTshowcase and you may invite up to ten investors and licensees to receive a complimentary registration. Our team will help you to connect with your top 10. Only know the organization? Don't have complete contact information? We'll help fill in the blanks.

Past invitees who attended… Continue

Added by Amanda Radovic on December 2, 2009 at 4:00am — No Comments

2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare ... Now Accepting Letters of Intent

Colleagues,

Please see message below from MedTech-IQ members at CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) in Boston...

The 2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare online submission site is now open to accept completed letters of intent.

Deadline to submit a letter of intent is January 17,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

New MedTech-IQ Affiliates ... Executive Search Online.com & Basecamp Online Project Management

Colleagues,

Now joining our list of MedTech-IQ Affiliates we are adding:

.... Executive Search Online .com ... Specializing in executive searches in the $80,000 to $500,000 range, and

.... Basecamp Online Project Management ... A very useful PM system gaining momentum in Silicon Valley

Check Them out ... Both can be found on the homepage.

These new affiliates join our incumbent affiliates… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 30, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

The AllHumanity Group: A Global Humanitarian Network

AllHumanity Video

The AllHumanity Group is leveraging state-of-the-art social networking technology to achieve significantly improved connectivity…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 30, 2009 at 7:22pm — No Comments

7 top technologies to watch in 2010

Colleagues,

Genetic testing and electronic medical records are top of the ECRI Institute's 2010 technology watch list for health plans.

ECRI officials said the list represents important technologies and technology-related issues that private and public payers should pay close attention to in 2010.

The trends as listed are:

1. Genetic testing

2. Electronic medical records

3. Premium CT and ultra-high-field MRI

4. Radiation… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 30, 2009 at 6:33pm — No Comments

Is Peer Review Broken?

Colleagues,

As published in GenomeWeb News please see excerpts from this provocative and thoughtful essay on the counter intuitive nature of using a "subjective" peer review system to judge the most important elements of an "objective" field such as science ...

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.... It is a fundamental irony of science that a field created for and by people who… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 30, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

BfA blog: Broadband Adoption is Critical for Healthcare Advances

While most of the discussion over public health these days surrounds the Congressional debate over health care reform, there are a number of advances in health care that have already been made, and could be further implemented with an increase in broadband access and adoption.

High-speed Internet access creates several advantages for both doctors and their patients. Patients can create a personal health file online that can be accessed by their primary doctors, specialists or… Continue

Added by Christine Stineman on November 30, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

BOOK OF THE WEEK

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

by Gregg Jaffe and David Cloud.

The book is a fascinating insight into today's Army, written by Gregg Jaffe and David Cloud. Jaffe is the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and… Continue

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 30, 2009 at 10:53am — 1 Comment

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/goo...

A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There ...

Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 29, 2009 at 12:01pm — No Comments

How to Quantify Connectivity & Networking “Success”

Please see the link below for one example of how to measure the impact of an individuals publications, scientific collaborations, partnerships, scholarly output, quality of work, etc. The criteria used here is based on the network of collaborations that result, how many people one works with or brings into his or her specific arena of research (“Integrated semantic community platform). Clearly, the impact of a scientist’s work is more than simply the number of Google “hits”!.…

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Added by Eric K. Noji, M.D. on November 28, 2009 at 10:15pm — No Comments