The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest event that ties technology to consumers in the US. Over the past 3 years, the section covering health, fitness, and health care has exploded. Everyone wants to have control of their own bodies and health. We are all looking for ways of monitoring, analyzing, and improving our health – whether it is through better communications with our doctors and medical support, our personal fitness, or …
Have you ever attended a health hackathon? If you haven’t, you should give it a shot, especially if you have caught the “entrepreneurial bug”. I attended MedHack last Saturday in San Francisco, at UCSF’s McLaren Hall. MedHack is an event produced by Prebacked, a health accelerator located in San Francisco. Before letting anyone code wildly […]
Last week I attended the first ever MedicineX workshop event on the Stanford campus. It surpassed my expectations (which were frankly pretty high, given the source) regarding the content, the caliber of the speakers and the general attendees/networking. I only wished that I had more time to meet people by the end of the day. […]
Yes, we’re comparing all of 2013 to only Q1 and Q2 of 2014 (that’s how explosive digital healthcare is!) … Here are the categories that scored highest in funding in 2013: – Payer administration – Digital medical devices – Analytics and big data – Healthcare consumer engagement – Population health management – Personalized medicine If […]
The Wall Street Journal predicted five medical Innovations that would be on our radar screen in 2014. Watch the 3 minute 32 second video to see what it looks like now as the second half of 2014 is unfolding. Last December (2013), WSJ Informed Patient columnist Laura Landro joined Lunch Break with five innovations in […]
A great stories of a successful startup, SmartThings is being acquired by Samsung. The internet of things is the next big thing. SmartThings started as a Kickstarter campaign in 2012, obtained $12.5million in funding November 2013 and now with the development of a smart lineup of connected consumer devices to smart phones, they hit the payday with a price tag of about $200 million, according to Re/code (citing anonymous sources).