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Syndicom, the creator of the Web 2.0 case collaboration platforms, SpineConnect.com and ArthoplastyConnect.com, announced a strategic partnership with Bacterin International Inc, an innovative biologic company and manufacturer of elutive bioactive coatings for medical devices. The alliance aims to implement a surgeon-to-surgeon online collaboration strategy for its surgeons to efficiently expedite their understanding of, and case [...]

For a WOWing and critical look into what may be the future of business organization design, check out David Armano’s blog on THE SOCIAL busines.
He starts off the conversation with an idea:
Imagine if a company like GM, was at the core “social”. Not just participating in “social media”—but through every part of their business ecosystem, [...]

Syndicom, the creator of the Web 2.0 case collaboration platforms, SpineConnect.com and ArthoplastyConnect.com, announced a strategic partnership with Amedica Corp., – an orthopedic implants company focused on silicon nitride ceramic technologies. The alliance aims to implement a surgeon-to-surgeon online collaboration

strategy for its surgeons to efficiently expedite their understanding of, and case discussions about the [...]

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 [...]

Syndicom was nominated for the 2009 Colorado Companies To Watch program earlier this year, and I’m happy to report that we are a FINALIST! We just got the notice in the mail!!!
The Colorado Companies to Watch program energizes the state and it’s communities by recognizing second-stage companies that are developing valuable products and services, creating [...]

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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 [...]

It’s that time again….. Spring time…. and conference time. This week, the Syndicom crew are at the AAOS (American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons) conference in Las Vegas to connect with others about leading edge technologies and techniques; discuss product development; attend demonstrations and collaborate with other companies from around the world. The AAOS annual meeting [...]

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 [...]

“Several weeks ago I started to have sharp pains in my right hip area, descending to the top of my right thigh. It made it difficult to walk without limping. At first I had trouble getting out of bed in the morning because the pain was so great. Over time, the pain has diminished at [...]

Yes, that is right! The team from Syndicom spent some of their time at the Emerging Technologies in Spine Summit, capturing the event in photos, conversation and film for all of you there and those who missed out. It’s a great 5 minutes of conference time and chat introducing community members, presentations and SpineConnect members.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

This past weekend, the folks from Syndicom headed to Nevada to attend the annual SMISS (Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery) conference and catch up with friends there! Did you know that MIS started to take off about 10 years ago?
The conference involved the usual presentations, networking opportunities, exhibitions and an intensive two-day course demonstrating [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Recently we were introduced to a very fine blog by Dr Kenneth Cohn, www.healthcarecollaboration.com, and after reading through a series of his posts, were inspired to consider our understandings of collaboration vs. partnership. As healthcare moves more towards this notion of ‘partnering’ be it between physicians and hospitals as Dr Cohn discusses, or between physicians [...]

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 [...]

Spine surgeons involved on the www.SpineConnect.com network wanted to dig a little deeper and explore the emergence of internet based collaboration in surgical decision making and new technology training. This meant surveying SpineConnect users (Spine surgeons) to explore the impact of how www.SpineConnect.com changed their surgical plan or provided additional information in order to learn [...]

Last week we asked how many people in the SpineConnect community classified themselves as creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators or inactives. Building on the numbers, this week we wanted to discuss the list of Syndicom ‘homes’ listed to the right of this blog. You will notice now that you can join Syndicom and your colleagues [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Syndicom’s first podcast in its 2008 series!
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In this interview, Walker Thompson, VP Sales and Marketing at Syndicom sits down to chat with Dr. Ray Miles from UC Berkeley, author of the book “Collaborative Entrepreurship”. In this conversation, Dr Miles discusses the companies which inspired the book (set in 2010) and [...]

When we think about centers of excellence, what comes to mind?
State of the art buildings and equipment? Innovative research projects and programs? The sharpest minds on the planet? Urban or metropolitan locations? All of the above? These all sound like extraordinary attributes and strengths to house in one place but what could be the [...]

You’ve got a dilemma. You are faced with a challenging case. You can’t decide which instrument to use. Who do you turn to for advice? Do you choose an expert? A colleague? A peer? A friend? All of the above? You call them. Not in their office. Probably in surgery. Where do you turn now? [...]

“In flow we feel totally involved, lost in a seemingly effortless performance. Paradoxically, we feel 100% alive when we are so committed to the task at hand that we lose sight of time, of our interests, even of our existence”
M. Czikszentmihalyi ” Good business: Leadership, flow and the making of meaning.”
When was the last time [...]

Donald Schon in his book, Educating the Reflective Practitioner, argues that in considering professional practice solely as a process of rational problem solving, we ignore the artistic process of problem setting, or how we choose the decision to be made, the ends to be met and how we will get there. This artistic process is [...]

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 [...]