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University of California wins $4M Gates grant to plan School of Global Health

Colleagues,

As transmitted to members of the "International Health & Humanitarian Assistance" Group earlier...

A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of International Health & Humanitarian Assistance on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

As reported in San Francisco Business Times...The University of California said Tuesday it got a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support planning for a potential… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 3, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

DOD, VA to migrate health records to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

Colleagues,

Retransmission of message sent earlier to members of the "Bio-Medical Informatics" Group...

Colleagues,

As reported in DefenseSystems Information Technology and Net-Centric Warfare...The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments will migrate their respective electronic health record systems to a service-oriented architecture to enhance the interoperability of outpatient clinical data.

Stephen Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 3, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

June 2008 NAE/IOM workshop on harnessing Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care

A message from Proctor Reid to all members of Systems Engineering on MedTechIQ!

All, You might be interested in a recently posted prepub summary of a June 2008 NAE/IOM workshop on harnessing Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the MHS. To read the summary or download a free pdf version go to the National Academies Press website at ttp://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12504

Proctor

Visit Systems Engineering… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 2, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Effort to link EHR databases proclaimed success by DoD & VA

Colleagues,

This message was transmitted to the BioMedical Informatics Group earlier today. You may find it of interest...If indeed it is accurate, it may set the stage for much wider collaboration, data mining, ect., going forward...

A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of Bio-Medical Informatics on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

As reported by the Armed Forces Press Service...During a press conference last week, Dr. Gerald Cross, the… Continue

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GE Healthcare to lead $5.3 million telecare services project for Hungarian elderly

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You may find this of interest...A major new collaborative research programme to transform the care of elderly citizens was announced in Hungary today. A broad consortium of private and public sector organisations, led by GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), has secured HUF 895 million (US $4.2 million) from the Hungarian government to research and develop new ways of monitoring the health of elderly citizens in their own homes. GE Healthcare will… Continue

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New Member Update - Part 4

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

There have been a rash of new members joining MedTechIQ. And now, New Members not previously noted (if we have missed you, we will get you on the next update):

Industry:

Bob Waddington: Interactive Media, Simulation, Serious Games, ADL. USA

Phillip Singerman: Tech… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 2, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Part 3

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

New members not accounted for on previous 2 updates include:

Industry:

Shabri Moore: Financial Advisor

John Hotchkiss: Software & Audio/Visual Technology to support Patient Safety & improve care in Critical Care Environments

Ed Ponatoski: Health & Health Facility Planning, Strategic Planning, Organizational Development

Roger Bagwell: Active motion medical… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

New Member Update - Part 2

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

New members not noted on previous update:

Industry:

Susan Zelicoff: Technology transfer & commercialization; Strategic planning; Market research/Marketing; How to do business with Dept. of Defense labs

Dan Loague: Early stage & innovation technology investing

Jonathan Barker: Clinical research and clinical trials software technology

Brian M. Park: Medical… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 1, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

New Member Update

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

We hope MedTechIQ members in the United States had a great Thanksgiving.

The MedTechIQ community now numbers over 280 experts, executives, policy makers & enthusiasts of medical technology.

Some new members include:

Industry:

Kate Eltzroth: Consultant, Medical Technology Development/ Investments & Congressional Policy

Raj: Health Information… Continue

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New Member Update - Part 2

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New Member Update

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John Wilbanks, MedTechIQ Member, Featured as 2008 "GameChanger" in Seed Magazine

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

John Wilbanks, MedTechIQ Member & Executive Director, Science Commons, is featured this month, December 2008, in the award winning "Seed...Science is Culture" magazine as a "Game Changer" in the State of Science Report, 2008.

See Seed at: http://seedmagazine.com/magazine/

The December 2008 issue of "Seed" features Craig Venter in a cover story on where science is headed, and feature articles on… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 30, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Report: Army to spend $50M on video games

Colleagues,

(This was sent earlier to the Medical Modeling and Simulation Group)

As reported in Washington Business Journal...

The Army is finally getting with the program ...They are getting serious about games!...

The Army plans to spend some $50 million over five years on combat video games to train soldiers, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.

To oversee this investment, the Army created a game-training unit named, as military… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 25, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Progress at MedRed, LLC

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

I have asked MedTechIQ member, Dr William K. Smith, if I could share this update on work being done at his medical informatics & technology company, MedRed, LLC, with the MedTechIQ community. I thank him for granting his permission to do so. Read on: ...

MedRed recently has launched a pilot of its DiagnosTX system at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as part of an effort under a Memorandum of Understanding… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 25, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Do Federal Agencies Belong in Cloud Computing Networks?

Colleagues,

As reported today in eWeek.com...Given the current state of the economy and the yawning federal deficit, the efficiency and cost-savings associated with cloud computing are prompting U.S. federal IT agencies to flirt with the cloud platform. Slowly, of course, since it is the government, after all.

Cloud computing has become so pervasive in the enterprise that even federal agencies are moving—slowly, of course—in the direction of on-demand computing. Given the… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

In Praise of Senator Ted Kennedy For His Contributions to Biomedical Science

William,

If you haven't seen this, I thought you might find this interesting...

As reported today in Xconomy/Boston, commentary by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor at MIT, and formerly the director of the Institute's Center for Cancer Research, the head of its Department of Biology, and the founding director of the McGovern Institute. Dr. Sharp won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on "discontinuous genes" in mammalian… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Call For Papers - PERSUASIVE 2009 - Fourth International Conference on Persuasive Technology

Colleagues,

Dr Samir Chatterjee & Dr Parvati Dev (MedTechIQ Members) Announce:

Call for Papers

PERSUASIVE 2009

The Fourth International Conference on Persuasive Technology

April 26-29, 2009

Claremont, California, USA

Submission Format/Additional Information: http://www.persuasive2009.net/

(Proceedings to be published by ACM and available in ACM Digital Library)

Persuasive Technology is about using Information and… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

"Who Killed Healthcare?"

MedTechIQ Member Oliver Lubin writes...

...on the subject of publications, not sure if i mentioned but just finished Regina Hertzlinger's "Who killed healthcare?" i know im new to the group so im sure this has already been touted before, but in case it hasn't, its a great read with a lot of practical thoughts. highly recommended.

-Oliver

Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure

See:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

New $75,000 Funding Opportunity Announced by MedTechIQ member, Dr. Timothy Gerrity

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

MedTechIQ Member, Dr Timothy Gerrity, announces a new Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology (CCAT) Solicitation.

The CCAT at California State University San Bernardino will fund new opportunities to support commercialization of advanced military health technologies. The CCAT will accept applications from industry, academic research organizations, and government laboratories beginning Wednesday,… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 24, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

ITSI-Biosciences Gets SBIR Award

A message to all members of MedTechIQ

Colleagues,

Congratulations to MedTechIQ member, Dr Richard Somiari, CEO, ITSI Biosciences. ITSI-Biosciences has received a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) award from the National Cancer Institute to support the firm’s ongoing breast cancer biomarker program. The Johnstown, Pa.-based firm is developing a biomarker-based blood test to detect and classify breast malignancies.

Read on at Genome Web Daily News...:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 23, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments