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Crowd-Funded Asthma Inhaler Sets Out to Make Pediatric Asthma Therapy Fun
Learn how an MIT spinoff wants to change the way children approach their own asthma therapy.
INTERVIEW: Tim Ringrose of Doctors.net.uk
Dr. Tim Ringrose is the CEO of Doctors.net.uk the leading independent network of medical professionals in Europe. MedCrunch met up with Dr. Ringrose at the Health 2.0 Conference in Berlin. MedCrunch: Dr. Ringrose could you please explain to our readers what Doctors.net.uk is. Tim Ringrose: Doctors.net.uk is an online professional network, free for doctors to...
Join MedCrunch & Europe’s Health 2.0 Scene in Berlin on Nov 6 & 7 2012
On November 6-7 2012, the long-awaited 3rd annual Health 2.0 Europe Conference will take place in Berlin, Germany. MedCrunch will, once again, be one of the official media partners attending this important and exciting event! For the third consecutive year, entrepreneurs, tech geeks, physicians, and other leaders in the field, will be showing the world...
HealthBox Is Coming To Europe – Applications Open
Healthbox, a startup accelerator dedicated to founders who want to build something in and for healthcare, is coming to Europe. Until now, the initiative had only been open to US based entrepreneurs, which major events happening in Boston and Chicago. A so-called “accelerator” is a great idea. An Entrepeneurs problem in the early days if...
An Intimate Interview With Jeff Tangney, Founder ePocrates & Doximity
We’ve sat down with one of the most seasoned and respected entrepreneurs and thinkers in healthcare these days. Jeff Tangney, who not only co-founded ePocrates and brought it to the NASDAQ, but who has recently also founded Doximity, a startup that hopefully will eventually replace the physician’s fax machine. Enjoy! MC: When you started your...
Segway + Wheelchair = Whill
Wheelchairs have been a tremendous help for handicapped people, yet little innovation has happened, except for chunky, big motorized versions of traditional wheelchairs. A Japanese company has introduced something that looks a little like the Segway®, but built for the handicapped – They are calling it Whill It is still a concept, but it...
Interview with Podmedics Founder, Ed Wallitt
Podmedics, founded in the UK in 2007, got started as a way for founder and former family practitioner Ed Wallitt to make use of travel time by recording his medical notes by dictaphone. The notes became popular among classmates prompting his desire to release the notes to the general public through his website and itunes...
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...
