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“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.” Milton Glaser.
What better way should I start a posting about design and its influence on our lives/shopping/communication/emotions/ETC. than a quote about it. But ahhh, design has come so far. Remember when we could all purchase something designed by engineers for [...]

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 [...]

There’s been a lot of talk coming out of the health care reform debates around issues of comparative effectiveness assessments for treatments and the high costs associated with particular devices (and therefore health care in general). I was just reminded of this fact yesterday as we received a call from a representative from the hospital [...]

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 [...]

As an avid follower of health 2.0 and medicine 2.0 news, I was inundated last week with reports, tweets and blogs from the Medicine 2.0 conference in Toronto. Medicine 2.0 is an international gathering focused on web 2.0 technologies and their impact on health and medicine. It is organized and co-sponsored by several journals and [...]

One of the cruxes of business process today is the quandary regarding innovation: in a time where true innovation seems fleeting, as if its all been done before, from where do the true quantum leaps emerge? Images of a CEO with a very large, pulsating brain sitting in a locked room with a chalkboard, a pot [...]

There are good things coming out of Harvard these days. I’m not just taking about the, well, everything that they do. If you listen to their content creation machine HarvardBusiness.org then you know. One of their most recent podcasts, described how Hollywood has been one of the longest running innovators. But, at times, has been [...]

Where does innovation come from? Look left. Now look right. Check above you. What about near your feet? Did you see innovation? You did…
Innovation is your users. And, guess what? You’re a USER. Of something. What are you passionate about? If you have passion, then perhaps you have innovation. Now imagine tapping that passion from [...]