Remember back in the fall of 2011 when GE committed $1 billion to cancer research and development? A new video put out by the GE Global Research Center commemorating National ...
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What should a patient portal for a statewide health information network look like? That’s a question New York eHealth Collaborative has been considering for awhile. If the interface characteristics of ...
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A neurologist has started a healthcare social network called HealthKeep that he describes as the inverse of Facebook. Everyone is anonymous but their information is public.It was developed to help ...
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When it came time to test the first version of its new mobile app for people with migraines, the team at Ubiqi Health assumed that physician referrals would be the ...
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Employing user-centered design hasn’t exactly been easy for Global Research Innovation & Technology (GRIT), a social enterprise startup that emerged out of the MIT Mobility Lab last year. The team ...
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Life as a venture capitalist isn’t always as glamorous as some people think it is. It’s also not something that necessarily comes naturally.“I learned the venture business over 10 years; ...
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As the telemedicine industry matures in the US, there’s a job that at least one provider anticipates will grow in demand in the next few years: telepresenters.They are a bit ...
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Doing more with less is one of the more derided phrases in a world where cost-cutting and downsizing have been the go-to strategy for many segments of corporate America.But that ...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has set a goal of reducing the amount of antipsychotic drugs that are prescribed to residents with dementia at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) ...
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Healthcare startups in fundraising mode occasionally break the rules to get an investor’s ear. Sometimes it works, but it can generate a collective cringe from onlookers.That was the impression left ...
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This picture shows just one of the intriguing element of a tiny, needle-free drug delivery patch being developed by a startup jointly based in Australia and Cambridge, Massachusetts. That, of ...
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Just a couple of weeks ago I got to witness a great healthcare discussion between venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Stanford University Medical School professor Dr. Abraham Verghese at the ...
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Providing consumers access to their data without overwhelming their health literacy threshold is probably the biggest challenge for companies developing patient portals to provide access to electronic health records. Too ...
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April 30, 2013 9:30 am by Chris Seper | 0 Comments
The medical device sector is ravenous for fresh capital. But they’re not desperate enough to trust crowdfunding.That was confirmed at this week’s 10x Medical Device Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during ...
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A group of former employees from electronic medical record vendor Epic have launched a website to address the myriad of questions that pop up in health IT. Its website,BreadcrumbsQA, crowdsources ...
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