Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have formed a $3 million strategic alliance in an attempt to address three “major challenges” that persist in healthcare: improving diagnoses, developing new approaches to prevent and treat infectious diseases and developing more accurate methods of diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. The alliance, officials said, will add further […]
A new attack ad in the 2014 elections links cuts to budgets at the National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control to the spread of Ebola.
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Startup Founder Testimonial: Vitruvian from LaunchPad Central on Vimeo. There have been 2 or 3 courses in my entire education that have changed the way I think. This is one of those. For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close […]
We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial […]
A pilot program to build the next generation of biotech and medical device entrepreneurs at the National Institutes of Health is looking for a few good biomedical researchers. A National Science Foundation initiative that equips scientists with business training to help them transition from academia to the business world has been expanded to biomedical researchers, […]
In this series, Dialogues+ is taking a look at innovation brought about through collaborations between physicians and biopharmaceutical/medical technology companies. Today, we look to potential future innovations and recent developments from the National Institutes of Health. Accelerating Medicines Partnership In February 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new public-private partnership, the Accelerating […]
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
The National Institutes of Health has quite a bit of patented work sitting on the shelf and not enough biotech companies willing or able to take on the risk of trying to commercialize them. Universities, meanwhile, have lots of motivated and engaged students and faculty eager to get some experience with real-world research projects and […]
With help from a health IT firm, the NIH’s Undiagnosed Disease Program hopes to make the sophisticated genetic analysis methods it developed to identify underlying causes of challenging diseases available to other institutions. UDP has seen some 700 patients in the NIH’s Bethesda, Md., facility since it started back in 2008. These are patients with […]
Cancer research, some FDA plant inspections, and the annual flu tracking program have all stopped due to the federal government shut down.
Congress failed to pass a budget so the federal government shutdown started today. The lapse in funding affects many health programs from the research at National Institutes of Health to enrollment in clinical trials to the Women, Infants and Children nutritional program. The Washington Post has a detailed list of who went home this morning […]
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
To spark translational research in heart, lung, blood and sleep-related diseases, the National Institutes of Health is doling out $31.5 million to three multi-institution “centers for accelerated innovations.” Specifically, the grants are meant to speed up the commercialization of inventions that would help diagnose, treat, manage or prevent those diseases. Centers in Ohio, California and […]
On Monday, the sequestration cuts are set to touch down on Medicare and cause a 2 percent drop in reimbursement payments made to doctors, hospitals and other providers. Dr. Paul Keckley, executive director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, wrote in a memo earlier this month (PDF) that providers should expect the reductions to […]
Sequestration spares Medicaid and almost all of Medicare, but automatic cuts to other federal health care programs will make it more difficult for low-income Americans to get maternal and infant care, vaccinate their children, and receive treatment for...
Given the profit motives and market consolidation occurring amongst the purveyors of these EMR systems and the potential for lethal EMR errors both from software and human interface issues, doctors and patients must especially question the ethics of the movement to deploy untested, novel technology on our patient population under restrictive covenants
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