Innovation Opportunities Abound
A new conference has been announced by the NIH: Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation. Speakers incude Tim O’Reilly and ” will focus on the key aspects of…
Healthcare and Technology : Garnering Interest in Your Product
Lessons from a Gardener… Lessons from a Gardener… Every Saturday morning growing up in a sleepy Long Island suburb, I was shuttled off to my grandfather’s house. While I loved…
Uterine Fibroids: Freedom to Wear White
Ladies imagine planning your daily events based around the timing of you menstrual cycle. Some women suffering from uterine fibroids have a menstrual flow so heavy that it can…
Good News: Smokers Pay Their Own Way
It is likely that cigarette taxes are near the external cost level at current rates of taxation. If the goal is for tobacco taxes to simply account for the purely…
Heart Attacks & Hospitalization in CA
A report released by OSHPD on heart attacks & hospitalization in CA reviews trends over 20 years. Some of the highlights (mostly related to the hospitalizations) for me include: A…
Big Defense Contractors Take Aim at Healthcare
The U.S. Defense Department budget experienced a $2+ trillion surge from 1998 to 2010 and was the primary driver behind the growth and sky rocketing valuations of “defense IT” contractors…
Are Women Doctors Contributing to a Doctor Shortage?
About 30 percent of doctors in the United States are female, and women received 48 percent of the medical degrees awarded in 2010. About 30 percent of doctors in the…
How to Sell Your EHR and IT Products to Clinics and Physician Practices
A frequent question I am asked by startups and new product development teams (especially those building EMRs / EHRs) is “what’s the best way to sell my EHR to…
Sex Can Be Dangerous – Consistency is Key
Being a couch potato six days of the week and deciding to ride a bike, work in the yard, go hiking, and/or have sex on day seven - well it…
MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Spotlighted on the CBS Evening News
A story pitched and facilitated by the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation was broadcast on the CBS Evening News on June 12, 2011.Acknowledging that focused ultrasound could be one of the biggest…
