Healthcare is a dynamic and constantly changing practice. The various ways medical professionals approach and treat diseases are evolving as quickly as ever, especially due to advances in biomedical technology. But it’s not just technological innovation that is revolutionizing the medical field – it’s the ideas from which these innovations are born. The future of […]
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 hospitals, and discussions on how medicine looks at patients and itself. It was very much a 2.0 version of last year’s TEDMED (2012 was owner […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
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 for PatientsLikeMe, was the first nurse to ever speak at the event. In some ways, the way it took nurses awhile to arrive at TEDMED […]
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 worlds of academia, arts and medicine. What TEDMED ultimately becomes will be decided by this year’s performance. I still have my doubts it can reach […]
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 Network, will run in tandem with the conference and feature 50 innovators – from government programs to accelerators and startups – who will put their […]
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 it’s loaded with familiar faces. In its third year under Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, TEDMED is shaping up this year much like in years past […]
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.
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 five clips below, physicians step outside the realm of comfortable and deliver presentations about biased research, death, errors and politics in medicine that left […]
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 providers are reimbursed and demonstrating they can improve patient outcomes. On the other hand, innovation can be as simple and cost effective as providing small, […]
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 set for April 16 through 19, will stick with its theme of mixing hot-button current events and 50,000-foot thinking with medical rock stars and creatives […]
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 videos contains some fascinating talks on science, medicine and running a business. Below are just four of the ones we would put on our […]
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.
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.
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.
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 a “world’s fair” for medical innovation that would be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The announcement was almost a throw-away few sentences […]
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 to be the Davos of Healthcare. And the speakers addressed everything for gaming, disruptive approaches to regulating cutting edge medicines, entrepreneurship, lessons from patients […]
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 to duplicate in the future, it would be its approach to AIDS. “In terms of how we look at our business today and the investments […]