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...
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...
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...
MedCrunch Partnering with TEDMED 2012
MedCrunch will be an official media partner of the TEDMED 2012 conference being held from April 10th to April 13th at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. Over 50 speakers and 1,000 leaders from the fields of medicine, the arts, technology, academics, business, and government will come together in...
The Elephant Man and The Medicine of Disability
We discuss often the ways in which medicine prolongs life: controlled infections with antibiotics, life saving organ transplants, vaporized tumors and the like. Just as important are the ways in which medicine improves quality of life or gives explanation to the things we fear: the disabilities we can see. A friend of mine who teaches freshman...
Smartphone, MD – A Doctor At the Tip Of Your Fingers
This ist part I in a series of posts about how technology interacts with the modern patient and physician. I have always considered myself as a technology junkie and I thank my father for that. He always had the newest, fastest and amazing computer (back in the day it was a Gateway 486 – moo!)....
The Internet, Information And What It Means For Physicians
Professor Gunter Dueck, is a calm and eloquent german mathematician who’s also the CTO of IBM Germany. He studied mathematics and philosophy and eventually turned out to be a great writer and speaker. Unfortunately he only does so in german, which is why it doesn’t make much sense to post a video of him here....
Social Media and Medicine – a Match Made in Heaven?
Over the past few years, the only topic worth discussing in the technology town has been social media. This is hardly surprising given that this new form of communication has the attractive element of immediacy...
