Michael Pereira, Ximedica's Vice President of Program Management, recently spoke at the Plastics in Medical Devices 2010 conference held earlier this month in Ohio.

Entering medical market requires investment, planning

From the design stage through product trials to full-blown manufacturing, the lucrative medical device market is one fraught with difficulties for companies that don’t do their due diligence before starting out.

Several experts at the Plastics in Medical Devices 2010 conference, held April 12-14 in Westlake, reinforced that in their presentations.

Read the full article:  http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?id=18492&channel=136

The American Academy of Family Physicians’ Future of Family Medicine Project last month identified group appointments as a trend to watch.  (see Washington Post Article from 3.9.10: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030802945_pf.html)

I saw this article on a process visualization tool called Spaghetti map.  The process is relatively intuitive and is a systematic way to visualize the physical space in which processes occur.  We have used it at Ximedica on processes that end up literally looking like a bunch of tangled spaghetti!

http://www.sixsigmaiq.com/columnarticle.cfm?columnid=10&externalid=1874&WT.mc_id=EM4780M&WT.dcsvid=79568473

For another interesting resource on the latest innovations in health care delivery, check out Harvard Business Review’s web page: “Insight Center”: it’s a growing collection of new articles and opinions that reflect the informed thinking on how to redesign and deliver top-quality health care.  Also included on this site are a few “classics” that provide an excellent foundation for anyone interested in how some top business thinkers understand the American Health Care delivery system.

This new technology seems pretty interesting…the implications are kind of mind-blowing.

Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets. The Skinput system makes it easy to control gadgets by tapping on the arm.

US researchers have found a way to work out where the tap touches and use that to control phones and music players. Coupled with a tiny projector the system can use the skin as a surface on which to display menu choices, a number pad or a screen.