What Healthcare Organizations Can Learn About Innovation from Startups, Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we touched on embracing failure, becoming more nimble and increasing transparency with customers throughout the product/service development process.  What other ideas can healthcare organizations borrow from today’s entrepreneurs to stay competitive and innovative? One concept that builds on stronger connections with customers throughout the process is the “MVP”, which […]

Philips & SalesForce: Combining Technologies for Patient Care

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Trending Now: Digital Health Summer Summit, San Francisco

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Money Trends: Physicians Realty Trust IPO enters the $3 trillion health care segment

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Boots to Business Education Program for Transitioning Military

Boots to Business is a three-step training program developed to introduce and train transitioning service members to business ownership. Boots to Business helps ensure that every transitioning service member has access to a standardized entrepreneurship training track and small business resources in their local communities. In an effort to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in our […]

Tiny Ultrasound Camera Images Blood Vessel Interior in 3-D

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) have developed a prototype ultrasound camera capable of transmitting image data from within a blood vessel or a heart at 60 frames per second. The forward-looking 3-D images produced by the device will provide significantly more information than existing cross-sectional ultrasound.

Novel Drug Cocktail May Improve Clinical Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer

Novel Drug Cocktail May Improve Clinical Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. and has the lowest overall survival rate of all major cancers (~6%). With current treatment options being met with limited success it is anticipated that pancreatic cancer will move up to the […]

Zinc Supplementation Shows Promise in Reducing Cell Stress After Blasts

Zinc Supplementation Shows Promise in Reducing Cell Stress After Blasts Each year, approximately 2 million traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) occur in the USA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number includes troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, for whom TBI is considered an invisible wound of war, one that has few […]

What Healthcare Organizations Can Learn About Innovation from Startups, Part 1

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Large, established organizations everywhere are struggling with innovation – but few face more hurdles more than healthcare organizations. The added challenges of regulatory issues, HIPAA compliance, EMR system integration, sky-rocketing costs, the need to increase transparency with consumers and other constituents, among other factors, make innovation in healthcare organizations nearly insurmountable (at least it can seem that way).

Calcium and Mitigating Genetic Risk for Diabetes.

Higher Calcium Intake May Reduce Body Fat,
Mitigating Genetic Risk for Diabetes
Study shows calcium intake mitigates genetic risk for increased body fat in African-American children, a population with historically low calcium intake and high risk for diabetes