MassTLCHV1 | Opening/Agenda Session

Opening/Agenda Session
Bill Warner, Tom Hopcroft, Antonio Rodriguez

From the Windows via @chrismyles4

Principles of Open Space

• Whoever comes are the right people.
• Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
• Whenever it starts is the right time
• Whenever it is over it is over

Law of Two Feet - Responsibility & Motion

If you are not learning or contributing it is your responsibility to respectfully find some place that you are.

Passion & Responsibility - Be Prepared to be Surprised

MassTLCB1

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MassTLCC1

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MassTLCD1 | Broadband Disruption

From @brough




News/Links

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Ad Hoc Fixed Wireless Networks--Should Carriers Be Afraid? | NetworkWorld.com Community

A 'Freemium' approach to radically improving broadband Internet in America," was the topic of a session at last week's popular MassTLC (Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council) Innovation 2010 unConference in Boston. Driven by curiosity, Rebecca attended the session led by Brough Turner, founder of a newly minted startup called netBlazr (no relation to the Telebit NetBlazer of yore). NetBlazr is a wireless ISP with a grand vision to bootstrap a wireless alternative to today's ISP lineup of telcos, cable companies, and line-of-site wireless providers. Using inexpensive Wi-Fi technology NetBlazr plans to rely on business customers to build ubiquitous, cooperative networks in densely populated urban areas.

via networkworld.com

MassTLCE1

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MassTLCF1

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MassTLCJ1 | Execution Tips

From @iandsmith

MassTLCH1 | The Future of Telemedicine

From Raphael Cariou. Twitter: @realityfrontier

What helps in building up a telemedecine solution?

· A sales team needs to employ the services of a medical doctor as doctors are trusting doctors.
· The solution provider needs to get involved as closely as possible to medical trials.

What are the key contributing factors for the adoption of a telemedecine solution?

· Facilitate the relationship between doctor and patients.

· Move data collected remotely where it belongs.

What are the barriers to adoption?

· Cost of entry for following up with some categories of patients such as diabetics, obese, etc.

· Cost of putting a solution together as it involves the participation of medical practitioners and technology providers. Seen from the medical team standpoint, it often costs less to work with college students.

· Reticence of medical professionals to adopting new technology as it is perceived as getting in the way of caring for patients.

How to get into the telepresence market?

· Understanding the re-imbursement mechanism is a key factor as it drives the incentive for medical practices.

· A solution provider would have to build a model of a medical practice cash flow that would account for the new technology cost.

· Identifying the right buyer is critical and may require some consolidation. An individual doctor may not buy in.

· Understanding the end-to-end care scenario is also critical. The reason why a black box is useful for home healthcare is that nurses are working on a prospective pay where additional visits are not paid for.

What are the key metrics?

· Improving the quality of care

· Reducing the cost of care

What are examples of technology that best fits telemedecine?

· SMS is preferred as there are not that many Smartphones in use.

· It does not need to be real-time for some fields, such as dermatology.

· Any technology that helps in submitting measures for bonuses in the field of evidence-based medicine.

· Help in collecting enough data to define a norm for a particular scenario, and in identifying when there is a variation from the norm.

· Note: HIE is orchestrating the anonymous collection of data.

What is evidence-based medicine measured on?

· Primarily focused on processes rather than medical data

· Currently more used to compare performances of medical practices

· There is no mechanism currently that would be close to a consumer report

MassTLCG1 |The Idea SuperCollider

The Idea SuperCollider - Where MindMapping Meets Social Networking
B.Zimmer/ E. Peters

Brainstorming has evolved into powerful mindmapping tools that allow real time collaboration over the net. Really useful stuff, but we think it is only the beginning

For many of us, the process of bouncing ideas back and forth is an important part of our social interaction. This idea bouncing has been around for centuries. 17th century coffee houses were the catalyst for ideas as well as a social meeting ground. I suspect examples go back to antiquity.

It is still important today, we are constantly collecting ideas facts and stitching them up later into different conclusions In fact, the unConference is a good example of a similar activity.

In a more modern example, an English mathematician (Timothy Gowers) posted a challenge to the readers of his blog to develop an more elegant proof of a theorem. The process took 6 weeks and was the result of many people building on each others comments until ideas gelled into a solution. A collaborative effort

This was done with nothing more than a stream of comments to a blog.

We have realized social mindmapping is not constrained by the bounds of brainstorming or blogs, it needs some of the properties of both along withcollective intelligence and other techniques.

So we have decided to build a social application to support collaborating on ideas and we have named it the Idea Supercollider. Our goal is to augment the creative process supporting discussions, capturing results and providing a forum for continued work across geographies and timezones.

We will start with something simple, and make it available. We will augment it over time to incorporating what we learn.

We are here today to enlist your help develop our ideas. We have put a lot of thought into the design, but we don’t want to start with that, we want to hear from you. Tell us;

How you might use it?
What does it need to do?
What should it integrate with?

MassTLCL1

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MassTLCM1

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MassTLCO1 | Does your product provide VALUE?

Everybody has a Value Problem

(photo by La Capoise Galerie)

At the MTLC Innovation Unconference last week, I proposed the topic: "Does your product provide VALUE? (and how to find out)." This was a variation of sessions I've done in the past. Once again I was impressed at the level of interest. About a dozen individuals sought out a distant conference room during the first session at the World Trade Center to discuss this topic. As before, the hour quickly flew by -- we could have easily spent another hour or two. I felt badly that I didn't really deliver on my promise of sharing some best practices (see below). 

via blog.leveragepoint.com

MassTLCN1

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MassTLCP1

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MassTLCQ1

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MassTLCR1

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MassTLCS1

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MassTLCT1

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MassTLCV1

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MassTLCY1

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