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NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010 - seeking 2 advisers by 4/11/09

To MedTech IQ members:

Here’s an opportunity to advise a Health IT Top 10 Finalist or Top 3 Grand Prize Winner for the upcoming

NEW ZEALAND HEALTH INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2009-2010.

Website launch - April 14, 2009

Media launch - April 21, 2009

Volunteer description:

4 hours of Health IT business development and promotion consulting services tailored to US Markets.

If you are interested, please forward a BIO/CV to me… Continue

Added by Lance M. on April 6, 2009 at 5:13pm — 5 Comments

EMR...Soon???

HIMSS Analytics announced its findings which portray a far more optimistic picture regarding EMR implementation, than an analysis reported in the 29Mar09 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, which, in marked contra-distinction, concluded that a nation-wide deployment of hospital based electronic records was still in a rudimentary stage. Both studies… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Big Apple: 'Welcome PHR'

The famous Frank Sinatra song goes, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere". Well, "The Grey Lady" is now reporting that the New York-Presbyterian Hospital System (accountable for ~20% of all NYC healthcare) has inaugurated its consumer-controlled health records for patients under its care. This large-scale PHR implementation will be… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on April 6, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Infrastructure Rock Stars - April 28th - The Historic Pennsylvania Infrastructure Summit

The Historic Pennsylvania Infrastructure Summit

April 28, 2009, Harrisburg Hilton

(Harrisburg, PA) - - Through the efforts of many Infrastructure Group members the 2009 Summit offers industry-leading presentations, including:

Kim Prizzingrilli, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission

Joseph Markosek, Chairman, House Transportation Committee

Allen Biehler, Secretary, PA Department of Transportation

Rob Wonderling, Chairman, PA Senate… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on April 5, 2009 at 11:50pm — No Comments

21 April 2009 Deadline for Additional Funding Requests on NIH Exisiting Grants ... "Competitive & Administrative" Supplement Programs

Colleagues,

The NIH deadline of 21 April 2009 is rapidly approaching for those with existing grants to request more funding to expand the scope of work or include comparative effectiveness research. This includes SBIR and STTR awards. See announcements below...

ENJOY!

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Notice Number:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 5, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

NIH Announces Procedures for Requesting Funds for Proposals Falling Below Pay-Line in FY 2008 & 2009

Colleagues,

NIH (National Institutes of Health) announced Friday that it will re-consider meritorious proposals that fell below the "Pay-Line" in Fiscal Year 2008 and 2009. See below the details...

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Notice Number: NOT-OD-09-078

Release Date: April 3, 2009

Issued by

National Institutes… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 5, 2009 at 1:14pm — No Comments

Building the Best Foundation for Pennsylvania Health IT - By Kelly Lewis klewis@tccp.org www.techquestpa.com

With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the federal government will invest billions of dollars in health information technology, broadband, workforce development and job training.

To maximize the ARRA investment and help state organizations become ARRA eligible, Pennsylvania's strategy -- ARRA/PA -- needs to be a well-funded, well-coordinated, interagency and cross-industry.

Health IT has improved patient safety and quality of care while… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on April 5, 2009 at 1:09am — No Comments

MedTechIQ member, Walter Greenleaf's...Virtual Worlds Featured in Scientific American

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

A message from Walter Greenleaf, https://medtechiq.ning.com/profile/WalterGreenleafPhD...

ENJOY!

CC

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Hello to my friends --

Our VR and behavioral therapy project has appeared in Scientific American -

I'm proud of our team, and our work!

Here’s the link to the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 4, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Intel, GE Form Home Health Care Alliance

Colleagues,

As reported in Investor's Business Daily ... The world's No. 1 chipmaker is teaming up with industrial giant General Electric (GE) in a five-year, $250 million health care alliance to design and sell devices to help the elderly and people with chronic illness who live at home.

The companies didn't detail how they plan to spend the money or divide research efforts.

But as leaders in their respective industries, they may have an advantage as they bet… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on April 3, 2009 at 6:52am — No Comments

Best of FOSE'09

For those interested, an article in GCN summarizes the awards for Best of FOSE'09. These awards are in multiple categories, and include both hardware and software solutions available under government contract.

Added by Clymer/JR on April 1, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Congressional Testimony...Raynard Kington, Acting Director, NIH on "Stimulus" Funding Programs

Colleagues,

Excerpts from 26 March 2009 Congressional testimony from Acting Director of the NIH. In the testimony Dr Kingston explains precisely how the $10 billion NIH "Stimulus" (ARRA-American Recovery & Reinvestment Act) biomedical research program will be funded & managed...

"My testimony will be different from testimony that NIH presented in past years, because we facing unique times ... We are moving expeditiously to identify the best science and support it… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 31, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

On MedTechIQ: See the Best Video Yet in Our Library!

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

If you really want to understand Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, University/Government/Industry partnerships and the Military-Industrial complex check out this Google video - The Secret History of Silicon Valley, https://medtechiq.ning.com/video/strategy-the-secret-history-of.

Stick with it ... the best part is toward the end!

ENJOY!

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Visit MedTechIQ at:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 31, 2009 at 9:12pm — No Comments

Cloud Manifesto

In an earlier blog, I posted an analysis of the "open standards" effort in cloud computing, and the opposition coming from Microsoft. Yesterday, 30Mar09, IBM, Sun Microsystems & other collaborators released specifics on a proposed interoperability architecture which they dub the… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 31, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Innovation Economics - Kelly Lewis

Innovation Economics

Kelly Lewis, JD/MBA

President & CEO, TECHQuest Pennsylvania

klewis@tccp.org

Don't you cringe when you read or hear the political word, "reform?" Simply put, "reform" carries a tinge of protectionism, wrapped with an elitist stigma of fiercely defending an old status quo. Many reformists fervently wave their magic wand at a bad person or poor legislation, playing Clockwork Orange to erase and will-away all things bad. Ah, the world… Continue

Added by Kelly Lewis on March 30, 2009 at 2:46pm — No Comments

National Science Foundation (NSF) Stimulus Spending Taking Shape

Colleagues,

As reported in Genome Web News ... The National Science Foundation is preparing the details of how it will parse out much of the $3 billion it received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will include funding for standard grants, cutting-edge research, some previously declined proposals, and research infrastructure.

These will be awarded swiftly in order to maintain the jobs preservation and creation mandate of the ARRA package. All of the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 29, 2009 at 5:15pm — No Comments

New Video Resources @ MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

In our continuing quest to deliver you the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration", please see below the new video titles now available at the MedTechIQ "VideoLibrary",… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 29, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

VideoWebCast...Congressional Testimony...DOD Health Information IT - AHLTA is “Intolerable,” Where Do We Go From Here?

Colleagues,

In a remarkable Congressional hearing last week entitled, AHLTA is “Intolerable,” Where Do We Go From Here?, Department of Defense (DOD) senior medical officials spoke frankly of the challenges and opportunities they face in securing the full power of health information technology (See:Tuesday, March 24, 2009 – 10:00 am –2118 Rayburn –… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 29, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Change You Can Believe In?

Shakespeare's Hamlet utters..."the lady doth protest too much, me thinks". In a remarkable statement, Microsoft (arguably the archetype software predator) is complaining that "Cloud Computing" standards need to be more open. Though on its face, some may see this as the very height of hypocrisy, others now believe that reality has forced a change in azimuth for this behemoth. Could Microsoft's apparent embrace of open standards and interoperability be genuine. Read this interesting… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 27, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

NIH Announces New Grant Category... "GO" Grants ... $1m minimum

Colleagues,

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established a new program entitled Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” hereafter called the ”GO” grants program.

This new program will support projects that address large, specific biomedical and biobehavioral research endeavors that will benefit from significant 2-year funds without the expectation of continued… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on March 23, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Harvard CTSA Grants

The Harvard Clinical & Translational Science Center announced that it has completed its first round of Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grants funding. Harvard's Center is part of the national CTSA initiative managed by NIH. You can read more about the 62 grant recipients… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on March 23, 2009 at 1:07pm — No Comments