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SpineConnect’s new features were designed with you in mind – to improve overall usability, and make posting cases faster and easier. Want to learn more? Read about the enhancements and additions to our case creation process in the latest release of SpineConnect.

Streamlined Case Creation…
means the time it takes to submit a case [...]

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 [...]

Do you know what the difference is? I read an interesting blog post this week from Collaborative Thinking in which the author, clearly defines the difference:
Is a CoP the same thing as a (social) network? There is often some overlap. A network is the collection of connections and relationships between people. Right now, “social networking [...]

Do you know what the difference is? I read an interesting blog post this week from Collaborative Thinking in which the author, clearly defines the difference:
Is a CoP the same thing as a (social) network? There is often some overlap. A network is the collection of connections and relationships between people. Right now, “social networking [...]

Collaborations are often very productive, and important for the learning organization. Collaborators will lend expertise and improve the impact and reach of your organization’s projects and initiatives. However, not all organizations are the same, nor are the collaborations. Launching a collaborative project with the wrong collaborator could damage an organization’s initiatives and projects, and could [...]

Depending upon your vantage point, the topic of health care can be a complex issue, or a question of simple and immediate need. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of separate entities participating in the American health care discourse, all jostling to place their interests as paramount, most representatives of industry.
While it is easy to [...]

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Building on our goal of expanding notions of collaboration and healthcare teams, this week we had the very distinct pleasure of speaking with Scott Capdevielle, CEO of Syndicom to gather some of his thoughts on collaboration, innovation and healthcare. Scott’s expertise and experience with software, collaboration, web 2.0 media and entrepreneurship is [...]

We have recently returned from AAOS (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons) in Las Vegas. There we connected with others about leading edge technologies and techniques; discussed product development; attended demonstrations and connected with others from around the world. In light of being back, we thought we’d highlight a couple things that may be of interest [...]

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 [...]

“A way of seeing is a way of not seeing.” -Poggi, 1965
Dr. Clay Shirky, an insightful thinker on technology and its effects on business and society recently sat down with Radar and spoke about the effects of low cost coordination and group action as well as where to find the next layer of value [...]

Over a year ago now e-patient Dave finished reading a white paper about the nature and status of the e-patient and its connection to participatory medicine. The white paper offered up several main conclusions — that patients are valuable contributors and providers should recognize them as such; that the art of empowering patients is [...]

Last week, we wrote about the issues of posting, participation and presence in online communities such as SpineConnect. Recently I was commenting on a blog post about crowdsourcing and participatory medicine and raised the question — what is the difference between crowdsourcing and collaboration? I did so, because over the last few months, I had [...]

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, [...]

Sensibility: The ability to feel or perceive stimuli; a keen intellectual perception; mental or emotional responsiveness toward something, such as the feelings of another.; receptiveness to impression, whether pleasant or unpleasant; acuteness of feeling; refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling; the quality of being affected by changes in the environment.
Last week, I wrote [...]

As I wrote earlier on this blog, one of the most liberating facets of web 2.0 technologies is their disruptive influence on the time-space continuum. This facet of their nature, coupled with the need to reach patients where they are, how they are, in remote, rural or just dispersed locations gave birth to the [...]

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This week we were fortunate enough to speak to Gary Ghiselli, MD, moderator of the Young Surgeons Group on SpineConnect. Gary is a board-certified, fellowship-trained spine surgeon specializing in cervical, thoracic and lumbar surgery with a subspecialty interest in complex deformity and degenerative conditions of the cervical spine. He works with Denver [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After the successful health 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, there have been several different “where to next?” discussions across the blogosphere. Accompanying these discussions are articles such as the one in Newsweek recently on web 2.0 and the coming of health 2.0, emphasizing “health as a social concept” and therefore, its commitment [...]

Just as they got back from Toronto, Syndicom’s CEO Scott Capdevielle, and Walker Thompson, VP of Sales and Marketing, went a-roving once more…this time to the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week. Walker’s been texting and tweeting all day to bring us live news from the conference which is dedicated to innovations in [...]

Camaraderie = from the French, camarade or comrade, circa 1840, meaning a spirit of friendly good-fellowship.
Ah yes, the first years out of school are always the hardest and you find yourself screaming silently ‘they never told me that during my training!’ But in all fairness, they couldn’t because the diversity of the ‘real world’ and [...]

Susannah Fox, an associate director with the Pew Internet and American Life Project and founder of e-patients.net recently completed a research study focusing on e-patients and estimates that between 75% and 80% of Internet users have looked online for health information. More importantly perhaps, people who have a lot at stake, or who live with [...]

RNcentral released this week their list of Top 50 health 2.0 blogs. As I read through the list, I was interested in its diversity and also the youth of some of the major players. But I was also interested in how this blog intersected with several others I have read recently heralding the demise of [...]

When we consider how work gets done in the medical realm, we very often focus solely on ‘the physician’, ‘the nurse’, or ‘the surgeon’ and consider them as individual actors. But is this a fair representation of the work they do and the people they are? Should they act as solo professionals or are those [...]

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 [...]