Tag: health
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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…
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Bid on lunch with pharma exec; benefit Water-Aid, developing world
UK/US Life science consulting firm Alacrita launches benefit auction for lunch with pharma exec to benefit Water Aid in developing world.
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Bio-IT World Review: BIG Data; BIG Promise; BIG CHALLENGES.
New Cambridge Observer’s Anita Harris on BIO-IT World 2012, describing the promise and problems presented by burgeoning of health care data.
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Lab tests for a dime at the convenience store?
I asked when and how these groundbreaking technologies will affect the costs and structure of US healthcare–and whether those who make and market our costly technologies will try to keep these new testing devices from our marketplace.