Niamh O’Mahony is Applications Engineering Team Leader at Shimmer in Dublin, where she has worked at providing tools to make sensed signals easier to interpret. Niamh’s work on biosensors is bringing about changes in access to information for health professionals and patients alike.
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 On June 24, 2014, Philips introduced their latest platform for providing patient care with eCareCompanion and eCareCoordinator. “Can you make it scalable to millions and millions of patients; can you make it secure; and finally, can you make it adaptable?” More importantly, “how can we make an […]
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 […]
Health Data Consortium, a non-profit advocacy and membership organization dedicated to mobilizing health data to transform the U.S. health care system, today announced the formal release of Health Data All Stars, the first-of-its-kind directory of the top domestic health data resources publicly available at the federal, state, and local levels. The 50 plus All Stars […]