Tag: Harris Communications
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BIO INTERNATIONAL 2023: A Lively Life Science Gathering
On June 7, 2023, I was privileged to cover the convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) International Convention–my first time attending the meeting since 2018, when the 25th anniversary of the gathering was held here in Boston. The excitement was back–with 9144 companies registered to attend, many with booths, tables or pavilions–and, according to…
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Vietnam Vet & author Dick Pirozzolo says vets are good hires
For Veterans Day, 2018, author and Air Force Vet Dick Pirozzolo explains why people who have served in armed forces make great employees–and urges employers to hire them.
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part III: Apps, Devices & Roadblocks
In her final report in a three-part series, writer Anita Harris reports on digital innovations aimed at improving behavioral and population health through new models for insurance and state systems. She also discusses roadblocks to change.
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Georgia O’Keeffe Inspirational at the Peabody Essex
Cambridge writer Anita Harris felt inspired by the Georgia O’keeffe show at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA–which exhibits the work of a groundbreaking artist who lived and worked into her late 90s, and whose work remains impactful, today.
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Wearables & Robots: Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part II
Health Science writer Anita Harris reports on digital innovations aimed at transforming a troubled US health care system. In this blog, part II of a series, she describes wearables, robots, monitors, and several startups with IT to improve and cut costs of long term and health caredelivery systems.
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…