MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'business planning'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:53:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3100926&cid=t_178474_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fdentists-prepare-for-2010%2F One Simple Step to Success for 2010 Do you have a strategic plan for your dental business in 2010? Most businesses that don’t have a plan fail to become successful. Don’t enter into a new decade blindly…make sure you have a plan. Have you ever heard the saying “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”? Well this holds true for your dental business as well. You can not start a business and proceed blindly and just expect that everything will work out and you will achieve great success. It rarely will happen that way. Each year, in the very beginning of each year you need to sit down outside the regular dental office atmosphere and make a plan. This plan needs to include the entire team. It starts your practice off on the “right tooth”. Well, it is one way to keep... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3100926 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:08:35 +0100 3100926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958943&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2FwX_DhLS28_M%2F From what I have observed over many years, Hospitals have historically approached medical device connectivity projects as a tactical issue to be dealt with. Up until relatively recently, technology alone could be used to solve the connectivity issue (i.e. getting data from point A to point B) with little to no negative impact on clinical workflow. Further, the scope of connectivity projects has been mainly departmentally focused and deployments have been relatively basic. By basic, I refer to projects that have focused on connecting one or two bedside medical devices to a single CIS application or EMR. Evidence of all of this can be found by looking back at the past 10 or more years and examining typical implementations of biomedical device connectivity to information systems. •    Mo... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958943 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:32:52 +0100 2958943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348777&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2FFvbo_iijQWw%2F The Big Picture Medical device interoperability and standardization is a hot topic, and with the efforts surrounding adoption of the 11073 standard, IHE and patient care device frameworks, and the drive towards implementing electronic medical records, the field has become essential to the future of the healthcare industry. Yet, as we look to realign medical devices and their communication mechanisms away from proprietary intercommunication and towards standards-based communication, we should think “outside the box” to other fields, technologies and technical disciplines for inspiration and guidance on best practices. Perhaps an obvious one that comes to mind is the USB 2.0 standard. The simple idea being proffered is the ability to plug a medical device into a computing platfor... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348777 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:37:52 +0100 2348777 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2321569&cid=t_178474_127_f&fid=38263&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fdeepesthealth%2FBMCc%2F%7E3%2FvCIFH-1u1SU%2F Hey folks, For a short time, I was running another blog called Natural Medicine Business Success - but I found that compartmentalizing my life like that just didn’t work.  Someday perhaps I’ll have more time to run a whole separate project.  But, now, it doesn’t feel right.  So, today, I migrated all of those posts to Deepest Health.  They’re melded with the other posts, so I wanted to highlight a few here.  Most of them can be found by searching through the “Business” or “Business Planning” tags. The Power of Networking in Natural Medicine (by Amanda Barp, LMT) I’m an Acupuncturist, Not a business Person! (By Bonnie Koenig) 1/3 in a series Where do you find help getting started with your Natural Medicine practice (BK) 3/3 in that ... Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2321569 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:51:17 +0100 2321569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2267105&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2FPbrg56bhPfM%2F A growing number of organizations — large and small, within health care and outside of it — are facing regulation by the FDA. Those potentially affected fall into 3 camps. All of the examples I’m going to talk about deal with multi vendor systems (or systems using lots of off the shelf components) that become the regulated medical device. Just what is a medical device? The legal definition of a medical device is, an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is: recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them, [i.e., a drug] intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other con... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2267105 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:03:05 +0100 2267105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258300&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2F9wOu5HvjhzU%2F This is another installment of a series on selling connectivity. You can read the first installment, with links to subsequent posts, here. There is no one product that best fits every customer’s requirements, yet the goal of product management is to develop product requirements that addresses the greatest portion of the market possible. Of course, it is neigh impossible to create a solution that is optimal for every customer. This raises a couple interesting questions. For any given project, how much of the addressable market’s requirements can be met? How are such trade-offs made, and what is the role of sales in all this? Security As a Requirements Trade-off Example A good frame of reference for requirements trade-offs is wireless security for medical devices. There is a plethora of ... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258300 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:50:09 +0100 2258300 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1924444&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F10%2F31%2Finteroperability-barriers-to-adoption%2F There’s been some great comments on the recent post about the announcement of MD FIRE. That plus some other activities I’ve been involved in have inspired some thoughts on barriers to adoption for medical device interoperability. For this discussion, interoperability refers to the ability of a medical device to be controlled by another medical device or third party information system. Medical device systems from a single vendor frequently include interoperability between the medical devices and applications running on general purpose computers, but since all the components are from the same vendor I’m excluding them from this discussion. Like everything else, medical device interoperability will walk before it runs. In a recent comment, JimW suggests that MD FIRE’s ... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1924444 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:54:58 +0100 1924444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1615939&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F07%2F11%2Fhealthcare-unbound-2008%2F This week was the Healthcare Unbound conference. Between the considerable innovation in this market, and the openness with which presenters and attendees share information and ideas, this is always a terrific conference. The following are some notes from some of the more interesting presentations - be sure to keep scrolling, this is a long post! I’ll follow this up with a post on my presentation at this year’s conference, “How the Network Effect Impacts Adoption of Healthcare Unbound Technologies,” and a wrap-up post. At 8 am Monday morning, Teri Louden kicked things off. She started her career at Baxter Travenol in the 1970s. Referring to The Graduate, Baxter’s innovative technology of the day was plastic IV bags. Today, things have come a long way from plastics ... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1615939 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:25:41 +0100 1615939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543107&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F06%2F24%2Fmedical-device-start-ups-and-connectivity%2F Entrepreneurs are all about commercializing their novel technology, getting to market, driving adoption and realizing an exit strategy. Yet with the incredible focus on transforming their novel technology into something customers can buy, few startups take connectivity requirements into account until too late in the process. The consequences frequently result in revised go-to-market strategies, like going to market without important features or shifting to niche markets with lower connectivity requirements. Customers Want More than the Box There are many barriers to entry in health care: regulatory hurdles, entrenched competitors and gatekeepers like group purchasing organizations (GPOs). Increasingly, connectivity is becoming a barrier to entry - or perhaps a new price of admission. There... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543107 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:11:47 +0100 1543107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1466007&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F05%2F23%2Fselling-connectivity-strategy%2F Selling anything starts getting serious when it comes to qualification. For you non-sales types, qualification is an assessment of the likelihood of making the prospective sale. This assessment includes the following basic questions: Is the potential buyer or prospect really going to buy anything - from anybody? Will my product be a serious contender for the sale, or am I simply cannon fodder to help justify a sales process with a foregone conclusion? And if I am a serious contender, how does my product match up against the competition relative to the specific needs of this prospect? Who all is involved in making the decision of what to buy? (More on this in a future post on Selling Connectivity) A common problem in markets where connectivity is new or dramatically innovative is avoiding... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1466007 Fri, 23 May 2008 20:58:03 +0100 1466007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1377934&cid=t_178474_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicalconnectivity.com%2F2008%2F04%2F16%2Fselling-connectivity-a-series%2F I’ve written much in the past about the technical and product development issues of connectivity. Just as important are the issues that revolve around successfully selling your connectivity solution. (If you’re a provider reading this, this should provide a bit of insight into how to buy connectivity, and why sometimes vendors to the crazy things they do.) You can place to seemingly identical medical devices side by side, with the only visible difference being that one has an Ethernet connector and the other does not. That “small” change makes a world of difference when it comes to selling these two nearly identical devices. Here’s my list of the areas where adding connectivity to a medical device changes almost everything: Required new knowledge Qualifying p... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1377934 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:40:57 +0100 1377934