Health Start-Ups! – What Makes a Great Startup Incubator?
A successful university business incubator has lots of engaged mentors, is run like a startup and generates buzz and benefits for its local business community.Those are some of the high-level…
Healthcare Social Media: Optimize for Better Results
Noticing that your posts on your Facebook, Twitter, or other social media outlets sometimes don't do as well as they normally do? Then, the next day you post something else…
Few Psych Meds Coming Our Way
There’s nothing wrong with the size of the field. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that nearly one in four adults in America suffers from a diagnosable mental order in any given…
FCC Names New Director of Healthcare Initiatives
At a time when mobile health initiatives and mobile apps are flooding the market, the Federal Communications Commission has shown enough interest to appointMatthew Quinn as Director of Healthcare Initiatives. …
Nine Out of Ten Hospitals Have No Plan to Achieve Patient Satisfaction
There’s a huge gap “between hospital management and frontline clinicians with respect to improving patient satisfaction,” according to a study out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston. There’s a…
How to Control Healthcare Costs: Lessons from Singapore
Americans pay more for their health care than residents of other high-income countries, but have greater health disparities and worse health outcomes. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in…
Steady as She Goes or Down With the Ship, a Parable for Healthcare
Last week I was visiting Microsoft customers and partners in Stockholm, Sweden. Today’s blog post starts with a story that reminds me of the challenges and opportunities for healthcare systems…
Sales Reps Not Included: On e-Commerce Site, Device Firms Discount Routinely Used Implants
The movement toward price transparency that’s sweeping various parts of the healthcare system has now reached medical device sales via a new e-commerce startup that connects medical device companies with…
Writing Safety Critical Software
I first started using and mentoring developers on agile software development techniques like eXtreme Programming (XP) and Scrum over a decade ago. Often called “lightweight” methodologies, agile software development lifecycles…
From WhiteBoard to Business
Next Wave Health’s mantra is that it wants to grow the next big idea in healthcare, even if it only exists on a whiteboard. Next Wave Health’s mantra is that…
