Health 2.0 Spring Fling – Interview with founders Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt
After wrapping up a second day of hearing so many ideas about start-ups in health care, Health 2.0 Spring Fling in Boston left me wanting to start my own company and join all the entrepreneurs that attended. As a small representative sample of the groups of entrepreneurs that form the Health 2.0 space, who better...
How to become the medical advisor of a cool health startup?
This is the health-tech revolution and you can be part of it. Find out about the concrete steps you could take in order to become a medical advisor to a startup.
MedCrunch to cover Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston
MedCrunch has been an official media partner of the Health 2.0 Europe conference for some time now. But now, starting next monday MedCrunch will also be covering the Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston. This conference will be held at the Boston Marriott – Copley Place on May 14-15, so if you like to stay on...
5 Elements Of A Pharma Company 2.0
In various posts we have been calling for a change within the pharmaceutical industry. Much of that is not new, yet still nothing seems to change on a bigger scale. Sure, the iPad is becoming an essentiell tool in sales, eDetails have emerged, biotech startups are being bought instead of inhouse R&D, but especially with...
Speak To Me: Speech recognition with Nuance Healthcare’s Nick van Terheyden, MD
With the introduction of Apple’s Siri in the last year, free-form speech recognition has exploded in the mainstream. The technology around Siri, however, has been used in the medical field for some time for documentation with programs like well-known Dragon Medical™ by Nuance Healthcare. Nuance’s CMIO, Nick van Terheyden, MD was willing to speak with...
MedCrunch ‘Combined’ Interview with Jacob Scott and Sandeep Kishore at TEDMED 2012
At TEDMED we also had a a very interesting conversation with Jacob Scott whose impressive background was strong enough to throw us out of concentration a couple of times. But behind all this great history there is a very simple and cool guy who we befriended along the conference social gatherings and with whom we hope...
MedCrunch Interview with Marc Triola and John Qualter at TEDMED 2012
During TEDMED we had the opportunity to meet, talk with and interview many interesting people and learn about what advances they are bringing to healthcare’s future. Among the most interesting ones was our interview with TEDMED speakers Marc Triola, M.D. and John Qualter creators of the Biodigital Human, a very detailed and web-based 3D model of the...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 2
This is part 2 of our previous post. Take a look at part 1 here. Session 6: “You Get What You Select For” Frances Arnold a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at CalTech amazed us by explaining how she is evolving proteins by making them “have sex” (these TEDMED talks really spice things...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 1
Like children who were suddenly forced to go home after spending three and a half days in Disney World, the delegates slowly made their ways towards the exit of the J.F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts as one of the greatest conferences for healthcare innovation concluded. Following the format of the original TED Talks,...
MedCrunch Interview with Seth Cooper at TEDMED 2012
Alejandro and I sat down for an interview with Seth Cooper, the Creative Director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington. Dr. Cooper spoke during TEDMED about the power of play and the role that games can play in dealing with scientific challenges. Seth is a co-creator and a primary developer...
Live from TEDMED 2012
After two sessions of an incredibly large flow of new ideas, meeting people from around the world and from every corner of healthcare’s scope and finally taking a night tour of Washington’s most amazing monuments, I don’t think my mind and body can take it anymore… and there are 9 more sessions!!! Wow! TEDMED is...
The Chopped Physician
Think about how the role of the physician has changed during the last thousands of years. From the greeks to ancient egypt to modern medicine, which again, within it again has evolved extensively. In general, medicine has gotten a lot more complicated. The role of the physician has also changed rapidlly and radically. While the physician...
