Global Trauma Care continues to be a challenge in both industrialized and developing countries. The benefits to governments in improving law enforcement as well as medical care have a tremendous impact on the reduction suffering, the cost of care and the wellbeing of a society. Tom Fullan has written an article addressing this topic which appears in the Bone and Joint Decade newsletter for Q4,2009 and the November issue of Communiqué by the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (CCHSE).
Click here to read the full article.

October 5, 2009 / -- Six Sigma proves its staying power in a crowded field of performance improvement alternatives.
Read the full report here.

October 7, 2009 / -- mySmartHealthcare (MSH) has been developed by professionals to assist all levels of the healthcare community with global learning and knowledge transfer.

MSH provides a complete learning distribution platform which allows universities, colleges, schools as well as doctors and allied health professionals to create and post training and educational content. They can either create the content themselves with the complementary elearning authoring tool or MSH can develop it for them. Once the content is complete the MSH learning platform will allow them to distribute the knowledge around the world.

Dr James Waddell, Professor of Orthopaedics; University of Toronto, and Member of the Educational Committee SICOT will be presenting his Trauma Course at the Association’s meeting in Thailand in October. This will be a global first. Dr Waddell is an active member and publishes for ARTOF.

Dr Waddell praises the seamless method it takes to develop a course with mySmartHealthcare. He recently explained “The mySmartHealthcare professionals have made my work easy and more importantly, it is even easier for my colleagues around the world to access it.”.

Bill Cornelius, President of mySmartSimulations®, Inc. indicated that “this full service training/education platform will help everyone in healthcare. mySmartHealthcare enables all healthcare stakeholders around the world to share content and transfer their knowledge leveraging a very easy to use and proven process.”.

Tom Fullan, the visionary of the broad based learning and knowledge transfer platform also reminds doctors that the ‘meetME at mySmartHealthcare’ conferencing services will open more doors for online meetings and live surgery events within a HIPAA compliant environment around the world.”

To view the MSH site please go to www.mysmarthealthcare.com

About Fullan Consulting: Fullan Consulting has been assisting senior healthcare providers with business initiatives for over three decades in numerous countries. Fullan Consulting is also a key strategic alliance partner of companies such as Stryker, mySmartSimulations, Inc., Gallup, CBIZ, Creative Healthcare, EDCO, Plenary Group and Esphera. www.fullanconsulting.com

As a nationally recognized pioneer and leader in simulation training, mySmartSimulations®, Inc. has developed and deployed computer based interactive training and education solutions for applications in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Government and Corporate Training. In addition to the custom development of instructionally sound training and education curriculums, mySmartSimulations®, Inc. offers a powerful software application to aid in the development process of on-line learning called Worldwide Interactive Learning Designer (WILD). mySmartSim brings their experience and technology to provide the technical backbone for the MSH platform. www.mysmartsim.com.

September 23, 2009 / -- EDCO announces a partnership to amplify electronic access to patient records at The Ottawa Hospital. The partnership includes the implementation of Solarity technology to quickly digitize paper records along with the installation of EDCO's electronic health record system, Solcom.
Read how Fullan Consulting helped implement this solution here.

August 13, 2009 / -- When stories of outbound medical travel—also known as medical tourism—began making news roughly a decade ago, most of the coverage focused on wealthy patients who sought cosmetic procedures and experimental treatments outside of the U.S. But as healthcare costs and the number of Americans without medical insurance have skyrocketed, much of the medical travel industry's growth has been attributed to patients seeking more affordable high-quality care outside of the country.
Read the full report here.

August 13, 2009 / -- Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or the economic stimulus program as it is better known, billions of dollars are being made available to support computerizing the mostly paper-based medical records system in hospitals. Electronic Health Records (EHR) are viewed by many as a way to save money and improve healthcare quality by streamlining the access to patient information throughout a healthcare system.
Read the full EHR report here.

July 17, 2009 / -- View the Fullan Consulting Capabilities Statement

July 17, 2009 / -- View the Fullan Consulting Speakers Series List

July 17, 2009 / -- Fullan Consulting has published a series of Case Studies demonstrating significant costs savings for hospitals.

June 30, 2009 / -- View the May/June 2009 issue of the Bone and Joint Decade Infoletter

July 17, 2009 / -- What do you do when you have exhausted all options for improving performance in an environment that is determined to protect the status quo? What do you do when your organization has reached the presumed limit of potential performance and has grown all too comfortable with its market lead? Is there a common set of methodologies to shake up both market laggards and leaders? How about subjecting your organization to the rigors of Six Sigma, the manufacturing-oriented methodology now sweeping through service industries? But take heed, warns John Desmarais, CEO of Commonwealth Health Corp., when you start a Six Sigma initiative, “you learn some things about your organization you didn’t necessarily want to know.”
Read the full Six Sigma report here.

October 12, 2007 / -- Professor Lars Lidgren, Chairman of the Bone and Joint Decade, and Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Lund, Sweden said: I am pleased to announce that Tom Fullan has been named to this role. Mr Fullan’s work for the past several years in Canada has been influential in building broad based teams of orthopaedic surgeons and integrating this focus with government and healthcare administrators.

View the entire Boint & Joint Decade Press Release

KALAMAZOO, Feb. 19 / -- E3I is a broad based Integrated Healthcare Group founded on the principles of 'Patient Focused Care". Currently operating in several international markets, E3I encompasses all aspects of a partnered care health approach including operational transformation to optimize the design, resource management and financial operations of healthcare. E3I and its channel partners enjoy a combined total of a 25-year relationship with Stryker Corporation along with 25 years experience planning, building, and developing healthcare facilities and maximizing operations. E3I has emerged as a global development business with the strength of its channel partners in banking, investment, real estate, management operations, and training.

According to Tom Fullan, a consultant to E3I and the Stryker Corporation, "Partnered Care Health, Operational Optimization and MySim2Learn are the focus areas that demonstrate an enduring legacy in assisting doctors, nurses, and allied health workers in the quest to raise the quality bar in healthcare. E3I has been developed to work collaboratively with Stryker Corporate Clients worldwide and to focus on quality delivery and patient safety." Esphera3 International has launched an expanded, redesigned website on February 19, 2009 at www.esphera3i.com. There you will find the broad base of capabilities comprised of Education, Operations Optimization and Infrastructure. For more information on E3I contact Tom Fullan at (877) 269-0788 or visit www.esphera3i.com.

About E3I
E3 International (E3I) is an entity that balances healthcare facility design, construction, and development. Owned by M.W. Vander Veen (development), Eckert Wordell (medical planning, design and equipment), and CSM Group (construction) all from Kalamazoo, Michigan, E3I enjoys a cumulative 25-year relationship with Stryker Corporation and also 25 years of experience planning, building, and developing healthcare facilities in the United States and Canada. For more information on E3I, visit www.esphera3i.com.

About Stryker
Stryker Corporation is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies with the most broad-based range of products in orthopedics and a significant presence in other medical specialties. Stryker works with respected medical professionals to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives and to reduce healthcare costs. The company's products include implants used in joint replacement, trauma, craniomaxillofacial and spinal surgeries; biologics; surgical, neurologic, ear, nose & throat and interventional pain equipment; endoscopic, surgical navigation, communications and digital imaging systems; as well as patient handling and emergency medical equipment. For more information on Stryker, visit www.stryker.com