You might recognize Jeff who was recently featured on ABC’s Shark Tank where he turned down the shark’s offer of $500,000 for his guitar idea. In the podcast we discussed the unique opportunities and challenges of medical device development- and innovation in general.
I was immediately struck by Jeff’s unique perspective and vision when I met him. He has innovated in so many different areas and has successfully partnered with physician inventors for blockbuster devices.
Topics We Cover in the Podcast:
What’s unique about medical device development and how the potential returns differ from other industries
Advice for the physician/inventor where to go with your idea–pitfalls, how to protect your intellectual property and how to partner and start a company
Is your idea good enough to form a company?
The dangers of big companies and the opportunities of start-ups
All you need is a fantastic idea and where to go from there
What to look for in a business partner
What’s similar between innovation in any industry-medical, music publishing, and internet?
What is the unique opportunity in today economic climate?
Hope you enjoy and get inspired… All you need is a great idea– and as Jeff says- I believe everyone has one.
You can listen to the podcast below or download it in 3 versions — a single file or split into part 1 and 2.
BREAKING NEWS: First description- full free slideshow with audio of project and podcast
I am honored to share with you on docinthemachine.com my Presidential Report from the CGE of the launch of the Center of Excellence Program of the AAGL CGE. With 38 years leadership in Gyn Minimally Invasive Surgery the AAGL is uniquely qualified to share its educational mission by verifying those Centers that meet these standards.
The AAGL Global Society for Gynecologic Minimally Invasive Surgery Launches Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery Program at Annual Meeting November 16-20, 2009 in Orlando, Florida —dedicated to establish and verify standards at surgical facilities and hospitals.
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The primary objective of the AAGL and its professional interest partner the Council of Gynecologic Endoscopy (CGE) is to promote the adoption of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery with its reduced morbidity, shorter post-operative recovery time, less invasiveness, and reduced costs.
OurAnalysis of patient and provider needs worldwide showed that there are widely divergent qualities of practice and that patients and providers have difficulty in identifying excellence. There is a lack of national standards to improve outcomes. While payors seek to control costs/outcomes patients lack access to the educational resources to direct them to the appropriate center to meet their needs in many cases. As I stated in my address:
We recognize in the modern era of health care we have a unique opportunity as well as an obligation to use our educational resources and multidisciplinary expertise to help promote those systems and procedure which can improve patient outcomes in women’s health while reducing costs to both patient, payor, and society as a whole.
The CGE has therefore launched two new programs to address these needs.
First is an individual registry of physicians based upon peer review of operative experience and complications. The CGE, founded in 1996 has over 1100 individual gyn surgeons who have meet its standards. The new program integrates an evaluation based on today’s complexity of procedures in minimally invasive surgery. It is a tiered system with 3 levels of practice (based on procedure complexity) and 4 areas of proactive experience and specialization (General Gynecology Procedures, Fertility Enhancement Surgery Procedures, Repair of Pelvic Floor Defects & Urogynecology Procedures, Gynecologic Oncology Procedures)
Second is a Center of Excellence Program In Minimally Invasive Gyn Surgery. This is in recognition of the modern notion that to achieve best-in classs surgical outcomes requires not only an expert surgeon, but an integrated multidisciplinary surgical facility with systems and procedures in place to maximize quality cost effective safe outcomes for patients.
9 Requirements: Areas of Review To Qualify as a COEMIG:
Institutional Commitment to MIGS
Director of Division
Medical Staff Physician Qualifications
-Dedicated Educational Program
-Formalized Credentialing Guidelines & Systems to Introduce New Procedures
-Procedures for Minimizing Complications
Sufficient Experience with Procedures
A Full Complement of required Non-Surgeon Consultative Staff
Ancillary Staff
-Dedicated Team-Based Concept
-Dedicated non-physician Educational Program
Equipment Guidelines
-Availability & maintenance
Treatment pathways
-Linked to Peer reviewed Practice Guidelines
HIPAA Compliant prospective Outcomes Data Tracking
In my presentation launching this program at the AAGL annual meeting I shared
The AAGL is extremely excited and totally committed to the concept of Gynecologic Minimally Invasive Surgery Centers of Excellence. It represents a unified vision for women’s health that integrates our entire educational mission and expertise over the past 38 years.
First Ever Global Opportunity for Standards of Excellence:I was equally excited to present the concept to the Affiliated Societies of the AAGL which is made of representatives of National Minimally Invasive Gyn Societies from around the World. Our dedication to this concept and recognition of its value was shared by representatives of Partner Societies from South America, Europe, and Asia. We agreed to work together collaboratively to establish a shared Global Standard and to establish a shared program to advance Women’s health under the AAGL CGE COEMIGS program in cooperation with each Nation’s Society.
I will share further details of the program with you here as they are released!
Here’s the latest installment of the docinthemachine podcast. In this installment I review new FDA device approvals and then present an interview about HD technology for entertainment and medicine with Bob Ott (vice president of broadcast and professional audio/video products for Sony Electronics) recorded at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).
New Podcast Projects: The past two weeks have been a wild ride of fun and excitement! I have two podcast projects undergoing the final edits prior to launcing. The first is the docinthemachine podcast focusing on the new technology and medical breakthroughts of this blog. The second, is a major new medical education project – still under wraps. I’ve had some major breakthroughs in the development of both. First, we have set up a trio of partnerships. The first is with a professional audio studio that will be the home of the podcast recording and production. In conjunction with this we have a pro Jazz musician and his band to provide some cool smooth jazz for the show. My hi-tech upgrade to the studio was adding a digital hybrid the telos one to the setup. (electronics note– if looking into this check out posts on mix-minus set-ups and this great site here for audio podcasting tips). A digital hybrid processes POTS telephone signals splitting the callers into separate audio tracks allowing high quality recording of my upcoming phone interviews. Just as exciting is a partnership with a major medical on-line site that will handle the hosting and outreach to the medical and lay communities. I just back back from the studio where we were recording the last bit of audio and we’ll wrap up some more interviews tomorrow before the launch. The response so far has been overwhelming from people in the medical and tech industries and from sponsors helping out with production costs. More news to comeas we approach launch day!
Grand Rounds 3.25 is up over at Scienceroll. A gret blog I have mentioned before it is run by Bertalan Meskó, a Hungarian Medical Student wit a passion for genetics. Definitely worth checking out there are about 60 posts but excellently organized in categories to make the reading clear and quick. A nice variety.
I am honored that he chose two submissions from docinthemachine (one I submitted and one submitted by somemone else!). There are links to my posts on :
Here it is folks, docinthemachine’s first podcast to play on the site. This piece is near and dear to my heart. The Topic is “Future Vision” – and it’s about the coming radical transformation of surgery. I review how endoscopy allowed us to move from invasive to minimaly invasive surgery. What’s next? The transformation to microinvasive surgery (miniaturized robotic rovers inside the body) and non-invasive surgery (3D reconstructed diagnostic imaging and therapeutics via powerful computers).
This podcast was an interiew I did at the 35th annual AAGL conference in Las Vegas. Coming soon I will post my keynote lecture on this topic with powerpoint and videos along with the entire plenary session on this topic featuring Dr. Chutkin (GI swallowable pill cams), Barish (radiology virtual imaging), and Andy Van Dam (yes the founder of sigggraph on virtual reality data manipulation).
you can read more of my ideas about the future of surgery including alternative visualization (seeing what the eye cannot) here
I hope you enjoy these as much as I did making them!
