April 19, 2013 7:08 am by Chris Seper | 6 Comments
TEDMED 2013 wraps up today. When it was at its best, TEDMED included a series of gut-wrenching patient stories, blunt challenges to the orthodoxy of the profit margins of non-profit ...
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April 18, 2013 5:15 am by Chris Seper | 2 Comments
Sally Okun delivered one of the best talks of TEDMED 2013′s first full day. She also achieved a TEDMED milestone. Okun, the vice president of advocacy, policy and patient safety ...
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April 17, 2013 9:52 am by Chris Seper | 3 Comments
TEDMED 2013 is now in full swing. The ambitions of the event are as big — if not bigger — than ever with a series of rock-star attendees from the ...
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A smart new component of TEDMED this year will put the multi-disciplinary attendees face-to face with the next wave of innovators. The Hive, hosted in conjunction with the StartUp Health ...
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With less than a month to go until the annual rendezvous of creativity, medicine and technology that is TEDMED, the event’s organizers have revealed the final list of presenters, and ...
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Taboo topics. Novel ideas. Thought leaders willing to take risks. Candid conversations about problems.That’s what we need more of in healthcare. It’s also the beauty of TED talks. In the ...
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January 11, 2013 12:58 am by Stephanie Baum | 1 Comments
The biggest challenge of innovation in healthcare is not so much in coming up with great ideas. It’s coming up with ideas that can fit into the systems for how ...
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January 4, 2013 9:58 am by Chris Seper | 0 Comments
Jay Walker’s TEDMED has started to unveil what 2013′s Davos of Healthcare will look like. The first 10 TEDMED speakers have been revealed. The list shows TEDMED 2013, which is ...
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This week the nonprofit TED is celebrating 1 billion video views with a series of playlists put together by celebrities like Bill Gates and Ben Affleck.The organization’s entire offering of ...
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September 12, 2012 4:57 pm by Veronica Combs | 1 Comments
Much like President Obama's call to citizenship in his convention speech, TEDMED is asking everyone to join an informed and constructive discussion about some of the country's biggest health problems. ...
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Life science current events this week include creative TEDMED exhibitors document talks with cartoons, a vaccine for Alzheimer's gets licensed and St. Jude pulls Medtronic into its Riata mess. ...
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April 13, 2012 3:22 pm by Chris Seper | 1 Comments
TEDMED organizer Jay Walker closed out the 2012 conference with a mild bombshell. He told the remaining attendees that he is forming an exploratory committee to explore the viability of ...
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April 13, 2012 12:01 pm by Chris Seper | 0 Comments
The TEDMED conference ends today. But – like TED itself – the organizers will post many of the presentations made over these last few days for anyone to see.TEDMED aspires ...
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April 13, 2012 9:09 am by Chris Seper | 1 Comments
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) spent a lot of time talking partnerships at the 2012 TEDMED conference. And a company executive said that if there’s one approach the company would look ...
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April 12, 2012 1:09 pm by Chris Seper | 1 Comments
This week’s TEDMED conference is more than just talk. Attendees and those participating nationwide are casting votes for the 20 big health challenges that need solving. There are 51 candidates.The ...
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