Milt Capps reported on the Nashville Medical Trade Center and the proposed Nashville Entrepreneur Center here. Given today's technology I'd like to suggest that instead of building a PLACE it would be more strategic to offer a slate of SERVICES; specifically, those which would concentrate on the nexus of bioinformatics, …
Computer World/Network World – Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina may be launching a run for the U.S. Senate. Fiorina, a Republican, “filed for a tax identification number Tuesday and registered a campaign committee named ‘Carly for California,’” allowing her to raise money for a 2010 Senate run, according to …
<ed.note>I've learned about a decade ago if you want to know where the world is going to be 5 years from now in terms of technology that affects the average citizen you watch Andy Abramson, Ken Rutkowski and Jeff Pulver. Jeff watches and creates all things telephony and he recently sent this …
<ed.note>It occurs to me I need a post to record the tools I cite again and again. I hope to expand this over time.</ed.note> Today's entries sponsored by the letters "B", "C" and "W": Wave (Preview) http://wave.google.com/ Web Conferencing http://www.DimDim.com http://www.gotomeeting.com http://www.webex.com Wikis MediaWiki with PurpleNumbers Examples http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ (fedgov) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ …
We invite submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demos and welcome contributions and participation from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data for e-science and e-research. …
July 28th-30th, 2009, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA What's New with Summit at Stanford on 6/1: The Era of Banner Ads may be fading, but the Gold Rush to online advertising is far from over. New winners in this race emerge daily, and we're thrilled to welcome innovators to our …
Internet2 uses our meetings to showcase advanced networking video streaming technologies. Below are links to generally available streams, and streams that require high-performance networks. Please visit the downloads section before the event to test your network’s streaming capabilities. Note: Multicast works only if your network supports multicast. For more information …
The local FOSS revolutionaries in Houston, TX have decided that it is time to restart hosting a conference/unconference focused exclusively on FOSS in healthcare. DOHCS ( http://www.dohcs.org/ ) is awesome, but there is only so much that you can accomplish in a single day. We also feel that Californians should …
After two years of work from more than 175 companies around the world, Continua Health Alliance is proud to announce the formal release of its Version One Design Guidelines and the Continua Certification Program. These guidelines encompass connectivity for vital sign devices (pulse oximeter, blood pressure cuff, thermometer, weight scale, …
Lake Oswego, OR – February 9, 2009. The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council has issued a Call for Papers for its 8th annual conference to be held from September 27-October 1, 2009 in Houston, TX. The 2009 FTTH Conference & Expo is the only gathering of its kind dedicated …
Los Angeles Westin LAX (Don’t forget to also check out the SCALE Open Source conference taking place the 21st and 22nd) Time Presentation Speaker(s) 9:00-9:30 AM Event Check-in & Registration Open 9:30-10:30 AM Industry Leaders Take on Open Source Healthcare Panel Discussion Akaza Research (OpenClinica), ClearHealth (ClearHealth & WebVista) , …
<ed.note>Ignacio edits LinuxMedNews.com, where he is also posting on this meme.</ed.note> 'Rockefeller Amendment' for Studying Open Source in Stimulus Bill About page 701 of thehttp://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/020209%20complete%20legislative%20text%20of%20American%20Recovery%20and%20Reinvestment%20Act.pdfstimulus bill is a provision for studying Open Source: "…(A) thecurrent availability of open source6 health information technology systems to Fed7 eral safety net providers (including …
I replied at the DNJ link saying (after seeing the Venture Nashville blog post): One thing we need to consider is making a Results-Only Work Environment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE ; http://www.culturerx.com ; http://caliandjody.com/blog ) the DEFAULT work condition in both schools and businesses. One should have to make a business case for …
<ed.note>Note: 1) China and India DO NOT emphasize junior high and high school athletics (because the chances that that will bring one out of poverty are amazingly low). 2) When a child shows an aptitude for a subject the parents hire a tutor (FWIW: South Korea sometimes hires from the …
over at http://vcafrica.ning.com/ Her post: This is all great, but the hurdles are still huge. I went to a Corporate Council on Africa Health Forum in November and was listening to a talk by a South African CEO of a pharmaceutical company. He said something astounding: he refuses ever to …
11th December 2008, Wireless HealthcareAMD Global Telemedicine & Cherokee Health Systems collaborated to help launch a telemedicine program in 17 schools in Sevier County, Tennessee. In addition to this new technology, all Sevier County schools from grades Kindergarten through eighth grade now have a registered nurse.
2008, December 9 Kristof Van Tomme Video: In this demo Kristof Van Tomme explains how articles from PubMed can be integrated in a Drupal site. First he focuses on the end-user perspective (e.g. adding RSS feeds for specific PubMed queries). Afterwards he talks about how you can implement this on …
Kim Solez posted these comments in response to Internet2: Full Speed Ahead by Roger Smith, 11/22/2008, InternetEvolution.com Hi Roger, Great report! Just a few more links to engage the readership a bit more directly: The Internet2 Detective (many people are connected to Internet2 and don’t know it!) Presentations from the …
take place May 15 – 17, 2008. Presentation videos here.
Milt Capp’s has these two posts concerning healthcare’s ignored "Innovation Plantation": Special Report: Nashville ‘doesn’t exist’ in minds of many healthcare, technology investors VCs: Investors overlook Nashville’s claim to fame