Hard truth: Even the most promising startups are one calamity away from completely shutting down. Self-inflicted wounds are hard to escape from. But there are increasingly a number of options when a competitor, customer or would-be investor puts a company on the brink. Lee Ducker, one of the founders of Lake Whillans, sees the horror […]
Join us Sept. 1-2 in Philadelphia at the healthcare industry’s must-attend innovation event, MedCity CONVERGE. CONVERGE gathers the entire B2B healthcare ecosystem to talk in real-term, actionable ways about healthcare’s biggest challenges and opportunities. We’re excited to announce the following keynote speakers: Daniel J. Hilferty, President and CEO, Independence Blue Cross Hilferty will kick off […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Do you want control? Or do you want to win? It’s a decision many entrepreneurs have to make early on, and the answer often determines what problems startups will have down the road, said Fahd Riaz, a partner at the law firm DLA Piper. Riaz is one of four panelists taking the stage at MedCity […]
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Some of the speakers at CONVERGE offered a few different takes on what healthcare would look like in the future. Medtronic’s director of IT Innovation, Paul Thompson, talked about the hospital of the future and Jefferson CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko illustrated what teaching hospitals will look like and how they will function in 10 years’ […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A healthcare startup that made its debut at StartUp Health Weekend and went on to win has rebranded. The service that seeks to reimagine house calls for physicians and nurse practitioners has backed away from the all-too-common name, “OnCall.” Curbside Care gives users the power to order a physician or nurse practitioner visit to their […]
Hospitals and health systems can use patient satisfaction data and carefully calculated outcome-focused metrics to both improve the patient experience and achieve the best possible health results, according to Vivian Lee, CEO of University of Utah Health Care. Speaking at MedCity News’ CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia, Lee detailed how Utah’s biggest health system has built […]
Personalized medicine will be expensive in these early days of pioneering and planning. But individual genomic testing is not going to be exorbitant forever – and the ROI is gonna be big, both in patient outcomes and dollars saved, said a panel of speakers at MedCity’s CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia. “Because pharmacogenomics is rooted in the pathobiology of disease, […]
Is a strategy that’s been in practice for at least two decades really innovative? Telemedicine has been a bit of a tortoise among health information technologies, making its way slowly into practice since the 1990s. But some think the industry is past the tipping point. As an encouraging sign, participants on Converge’s telemedicine panel offered […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
One way hospitals are treating patients experiencing cardiac arrest is targeted temperature management, a procedure that lowers the body temperature of the patient to reduce the risk of tissue damage because of reduced blood flow. Mobile health startup Resuscor has developed an iBook, and it will soon be available for purchase at an online store, […]
You might have to risk your job, but pushing innovation through in an otherwise stifling corporate environment is certainly possible, said Paul Thompson, director of IT innovation at Medtronic, at MedCity’s CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia. Speaking on the architecture of innovation, Thompson used the medical device giant’s “Hospital of the Future” as a platform to discuss how even large companies […]
MIT Hacking Medicine is much in demand as hospitals look for new ways to solve long-standing problems with a diverse group of brainstormers keen to share ideas. A few weeks ago it hosted a session at the BIO conference and even as I caught up with co-director Andrea Ippolito after her keynote at CONVERGE, she […]
A health system CEO imagined what education and care will look like in his system in 10 years. Investors explained how new models of early-stage funding are paving opportunities for healthcare startups. Insurance executives shared what innovation looks like in the payer sector. And a medical device giant illustrated the challenges of disruptive thinking in […]
Insurance carriers can become a key distribution point for emerging technologies such as wearables, which in turn can play an important part in emphasizing primary care over costly specialty care as payers seek to drive healthcare costs downward. So said a host of insurance experts speaking at MedCity New’s CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia, among them: […]