Syndicom

It is a mobile world out there… Syndicom will soon release a series of mobile tools designed for medical professionals. The big news today: a pre-release of our new case study iPhone application. Check out the video below:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0JZ0exlHg.
This application would allow a surgeon the capability of compiling case study information and demonstrating results to [...]

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 [...]

As a list maker myself, I applauded the release of the New England Journal’s article this week, and as a patient who has had to endure the redirection of surgeons to my case, I was thankful for it. As we discussed earlier this week though, what is the true effect of this checklist? Some will [...]

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 [...]

A recent study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research detailed the requirements and services available for optimizing how scientific collaborations are established on Facebook. Facebook????? Yes, Facebook. You read it right! The researchers found that beyond expertise…..
1. Compatibility in personality, work style, and productivity were essential;
2. Communication was also central in finding the right [...]

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 [...]