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ArthroplastyConnect.Com And You Have A Friend In Collaboration Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 

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 [...]

Orthopedic Care -- Transforming Pain Through Collaborative Procedures Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 

“Suffering – whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or as often the case, all three – can be a doorway to transformation. As we move to the end of this century and millennium, our personal suffering is sometimes worsened by the lack of communication and community…Telling stories can be healing. We all have within us access to [...]

Surgical communities: The pull of innovators, not imitators Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 

Last week, we had a terrific discussion with Dr. Paul Slosar about his involvement with SpineConnect, among other things. He spoke meaningfully about innovation, mentorship, and interdisciplinary interaction as means to enhance patient care. Even more, he suggested spine communities help physicians, administrators, and medical device companies come to a shared vision to serve their [...]

Surgical Checklists – A Panacea or Just A Way to Get People Talking? Monday, January 19th, 2009

posted on Monday, January 19th, 2009 

There is much talk these days about the recent yearlong study revealing that surgeons following a 19-step checklist in the operating room can reduce the rate of deaths and complications by one-third. But what does the checklist mean for our current understanding of communication and collaboration in the clinic?

The yearlong, eight-nation project lead by Atul Gawande, [...]

Syndicom's DesignEdge -- Collaborating Across Medical Borders Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 

What does it mean to be a surgeon? And what does it mean to do surgery?
Do you love being in the operating room? Do you like the art of medicine? Do you like the technical side of medicine? Do you like the challenge of medicine? Do you love helping people, perhaps saving people, through [...]

Happenings in the health 2.0 world..... Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 

I read a lot of health 2.0 related material and recently three things have caught my eye which I think are relevant to changes we may begin to see in healthcare soonish. First, the number of health 2.0 consumers has jumped; second, I wanted to share a recent entrant into this space — icyou – [...]

SpineConnect in the news! Monday, November 10th, 2008

posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008 

I have been meaning to catch everyone up on the news this month so this week I have two tidbits to share in the digest…
First up, as you may know, a couple of weeks ago, while on a whirlwind conferencing tour, Walker and Scott jetted out to San Francisco to attend the Health 2.0 conference [...]

How Can Executives Support Collaboration? Monday, September 8th, 2008

posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 

“The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.” Said Tim O’Reilly, arguably the Godfather of web2.0. But how to bring about the amazing effects of collaboration with all these tools? Oh, what is a manager to do?
With new products, innovative marketing programs and “business as usual” comes teams [...]

Web 2.0 technologies and collaborative communities: The future of medical education? Thursday, September 4th, 2008

posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 

One of the health 2.0 bloggers I follow, Bertalan Mesko at ScienceRoll, recently uploaded a presentation on Slideshare– The impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare, demonstrating the difference web 2.0 technologies are making to medical education and medical practice.
One of the main components of this revisioning of medical education involves web based communities, [...]

Web2.0: Collaboration IS The Next Big WEB Thing... Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 

A recent post on www.ceoforum.com by Les Williamson, Managing Director CISCO NZ and AUS, highlighted what all CEO’s should know: collaboration is web2.0. The post goes on to illustrate the past, present and future of the internet. The breakdown was significant, because Williamson was able to highlight what a lot of us web-people already know: [...]

The Great Gunny Gorge Goof- Collaboration to the Rescue Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 

Last weekend I joined up with some of my favorite people in the world to run the Gunnsion Gorge- a black rock canyon filled with clear, cold, tumbling water. The pools and rapids make for excellent fun in a boat, and river otter, big horned sheep, and other families of charismatic megafauna frequent the scene.
My [...]

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