Category: Health, Science, Tech
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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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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…
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Ranger Jean Posts Fresh Pond “Rules of the Road” Signs
Writer, photographer and wunner (someone who walks and runs?) Anita Harris thanks Ranger Jean Rogers for posting “etiquette” signs for Fresh Pond, Cambridge–and confesses to occasional lapses.
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Fresh Pond’s Ranger Jean on rules of the road
After someone gives Cambridge writer Anita Harris the finger at Fresh Pond (and, to be honest, Harris responds in kind), Ranger Jean Rogers explains rules of the road and etiquette for Cambridge’s public spaces. “We all matter and we all make a difference,” Rogers says.
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Art, science, engineering intersect at Koch Image Gallery 2017
Cambridge writer and photographer Anita Harris was wowed by the new exhibit of arty science images at MOT’s Koch Institute. The display, at 500 Main Street, is free to the public. It’s on until March, 2018.