Posts Tagged ‘NASS’
posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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 [...]
posted on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Hopefully everyone has recovered now from your journeys to and during the annual NASS conference just past in Toronto. During the meeting, NASS recognized three of its members for their extraordinary contributions to the field of spine care. Eugene J. Carragee, MD, of Palo Alto received the Leon Wiltse award for excellence in leadership and [...]
posted on Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Recently Jane Sarasohn-Kahn over at HealthPopuli posted a blog about a new report on the Medical Device Industry by Ernst and Young, entitled Pulse of the industry: US medical technology report 2008.
The report argues that while the medical technology sector is one of the most innovative within the US economy, it too could suffer at [...]
posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Yes, that’s right…. more news from Syndicom and SpineConnect(TM) about to hit your email inboxes as we prepare for the upcoming NASS conference in Toronto next week (October 14-17)! Hope to see you all there - remember it is booth 1311!
In more news, the COLLABORATIVE CASE OF THE QUARTER was posted by Alpesh Patel and [...]
posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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 [...]
posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008
In one of the final chapters of Groundswell, Li and Bernoff describe the future where the social media of web 2.0 are embedded in every activity on mobile devices and into the real world, where social networks maintain our connections, feeds inform us constantly of any new information, all transactions will be rated and reviewed [...]
posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2008
As a followup to last week’s discussion of the annual conference of the Scoliosis Research Society last week in Salt Lake City, I thought we would get a report from Syndicom’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Walker Thompson on his experiences at the conference!
K: Walker, you recently attended the annual conference of the Scoliosis Research [...]