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I wanted to revisit one of my favorite presentations/studies on physician and web2.0. Manhattan Research has more than just documented the desires of phycisians and web2.0, but they added insight into why… In their paper, they mention five important trends on phycisian communities:

1. This isn’t a “new internet”, just an evolved one…
Here it is all [...]

“Most research is collaborative…” At least that’s Sir Paul Nurse’s view as presented on this Vanderbilt University video series. And who could disagree? Sharing ideas, information and resources enables intellectual capital growth, which means efficiency. But is the concept of collaboration too distant for most researchers? In other words, is it Practical, Professional and Programmatic?

Practical:
It [...]

The web these days seems to be full of the talk around EHRs, health IT and the stimulus bill – you can tell by our blog posts that this question over whether more technology is really the cure for an ailing health care system and improving patient care is indeed controversial. There is also a [...]

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 [...]

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” (William Blake, poet).
If I was to ask you what it meant to be a surgeon [...]

The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently released a report on the impact of web 2.0 on what they describe as ‘participatory medicine’. According to the authors of the report, Susannah Fox and Mary Madden, the inroad web 2.0 technologies have made in the health arena as well as their transformative potential will result [...]

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 [...]