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 [...]

Last week we discussed how surgical communities draw in innovators, an insight gleaned from our discussions with Dr Paul Slosar and his own involvements with innovation and mentoring within the Spine Connect community. The Syndicom team have just returned from the Emerging Technologies in Spine Summit where they hosted an afternoon session on Surgeonuity and [...]

Innovation happens through connection. As such, we are on the road again with an exciting conference schedule!

First, Emerging Technologies in Spine Summit will be held February 4-7 2009 in Steamboat Springs for the Summit’s 5th anniversary! On the first day of the conference, Syndicom is holding a meeting with Surgeon Experts from 1230 to discuss opportunities [...]

Yes, it’s that time again — the Emerging Technologies in Spine Summit is being held from February 4-7, 2009 in Steamboat Springs!
It’s the Summit’s 5th anniversary so we hope to see many of you at the Steamboat Grand to discuss the most current thinking and evidence-based medicine in new technologies related to spine care from [...]

Last month Jane Sarasohn-Kahn posted about how medical technology is the #1 factor driving up health spending in the US according to the Center for Studying Health System Change and their recent report, High and Rising Health Care Costs: Demystifying U.S. Health Care Spending.
It seems that these pieces of hardware used by surgeons in curing, [...]

In the last blog, we discussed the impact technology has on participatory medicine and ended with the idea that what was lacking to really bring health 2.0 into full force were the networks of networks. Alongside concerns around technology expressed in the end session of the conference, were concerns about people. As Clay Shirky writes [...]

This week Syndicom and Titan Spine announced that they will be working together to implement an online surgeon-to-surgeon collaboration strategy to enhance surgeon understanding and implementation of Titan Spine’s Endoskeleton (R) TA Interbody Fusion Device.
The idea here, Walker Thompson, VP of Sales and Marketing for Syndicom states, “…is to connect experts to surgeons who are [...]

When we think about centers of excellence, what comes to mind?
State of the art buildings and equipment? Innovative research projects and programs? The sharpest minds on the planet? Urban or metropolitan locations? All of the above? These all sound like extraordinary attributes and strengths to house in one place but what could be the [...]

In 2003, Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs wrote that particular technologies radically reorganized the ways in which individuals cooperated in societies. Rheingold, one of the first scholars to discuss the rise of virtual community in his case study of The Well, is considered an authority on the ways in which society is [...]