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Retail clinics look to boost business - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “Colleagues,As reported amednews.com ... Retail clinics, whose growth has failed to live up to their initial hype, are seeing an opportunity to expand, thanks to health system reform......The nation's largest retail clinic chain, CVS-owned MinuteClinic, said it could double its locations in five years, while Walgreen-owned Take Care Clinics said it expects to grow as well...... Health care reform is a positive development for retail clinics, because there are about 30 million people who are curre” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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shelbylaneMD Doctor, Internist, and Physician
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Transforming Primary Care! - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “Colleagues,Over the last few weeks, I have had an opportunity to interact with providers and health information technology experts on the front line of deploying Electronic Health Records (EHR) into the U.S. healthcare system. Fermenting with great velocity ... among providers, technology providers, payers and policy makers ... are an astounding number of ideas that fundamentally re-think traditional healthcare delivery ...Please see from today's New York Times, some of the issues facing primary” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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Cut Health Care Costs With Prevention - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “On May 12, 2010 the Harvard Business Review ran this post of mine on their web site. The original is at http://tinyurl.com/2vnpato Prevention is the key to both better health and lower health-care costs over the long haul. This is where the nation " and each of us as individuals " needs to put energy and resources. In the long run, it is more important than addressing the high cost of new technologies and drugs or their inappropriate overuse. Today, the U.S. basically has a medical care system r” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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Clay Christensen: How to Bring Disruptive Innovation to Health Care - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “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 customers with products that do less (but just enough) and are much, much ch” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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Aetna Foundation Announces 2010 Grant Program ... Up to $250,000 - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “Colleagues,The Aetna Foundation seeks to improve the quality and delivery of health services and to drive toward improved health status for the American public ... The Foundation is seeking national and regional partners with the vision to make these goals a reality... Please see excerpts from their recently announced Request For Proposal (RFP) below. The link to the full RFP is at the end... ENJOY!CC----------------------------------------------------For 2010, the Aetna foundation will focus it” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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10 Innovations That Will Transform Medicine ... Harvard Business Review - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “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!CC------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Checklists Health care is catching on to something pilots have known for decades " that by taming complexity, checklists can save lives. In his best seller The Checklist Manifesto, surgeon Atul Gawande describ” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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HIMSS 2010 ... Chillmark Says Nothing New ... What do you think? - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “Colleagues,Let me preface this blog post with a statement of admiration for the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) team for pulling off anot--” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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RT @EMRstimulus: HIMSS 2010 ... Chillmark Says Nothing New ...: This is particularly important as HITECH Act ... http://bit.ly/d9QfE9
Telemedicine Connects Earthquake-Ravaged Haiti to the World - MedTech-IQ
medtechiq.ning.com — “Colleagues,As reported in MedScape Today ... Just days after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, medical volunteers from the University of Miami in Florida arrived and set up a tent hospital in Port-au-Prince. Along with drugs and other medical supplies, the healthcare personnel brought a vital link to the rest of the world. Everything was destroyed over there, and in the first days there was no Internet in Port-au-Prince, team member Antonio Marttos Jr, MD, assistant professor ” View full resource at medtechiq.ning.com
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