Syndicom

Case, cases and more cases = orthopedic collaboration. Syndicom.com has done it again. We have launched ArthroplastyConnect.com, a Community of Practice (CoP) for orthopedic surgeons to collaborate on difficult, unique, teaching, novel, research, innovative, design-oriented, clinical, (and more) cases. Already the membership has taken off and so have the collaborations. Hundreds of images, case commentary [...]

Recently, I was in an appointment with my physician and she was cursing about the spell check or lack thereof on her computer. The first time someone has actually ‘presenced’ my EHR in an appointment, and after reading about EHRs and a lot of technology over the last several months, I started to interrogate her [...]

It’s that time again….. Spring time…. and conference time. This week, the Syndicom crew are at the AAOS (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons) conference in Las Vegas to connect with others about leading edge technologies and techniques; discuss product development; attend demonstrations and collaborate with other companies from around the world. The AAOS annual meeting [...]

As a list maker myself, I applauded the release of the New England Journal’s article this week, and as a patient who has had to endure the redirection of surgeons to my case, I was thankful for it. As we discussed earlier this week though, what is the true effect of this checklist? Some will [...]

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, in his book Weaving the Web, claims that his original vision of the web was one of collaboration. He wanted people to participate in two-way sharing of information and decades after the web was born, web 2.0 is breathing life back into his original vision. Medicine has always [...]

Earlier this month, Businessweek published a major story on Health 2.0 and the rise of patient power in reforming the way health is practiced. Drawing extensively on their case of Patientslikeme, they discussed how members of the social network had enrolled themselves in their own clinical trial for lithium treatments of ALS, issues surrounding Pharma, [...]