Tag: health
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Launching Today…The Institute For Block Chain Innovation
You can always tell when a new technology vertical starts to mature and to organize itself as an industry. In 2018, the block chain industry began that transition. In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, many of the official sessions and off-site events were about bitcoin, crypto currency and block chain. It…
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Is Regulation Killing Innovation In Health Care?
Innovation is the cornerstone of business, but in today’s era of ultra-fast evolution, governmental regulation can create unfortunate drags on innovation. As someone working in the app space with my company InList, a VIP nightlife booking app, I’ve had to keep an eye on possible regulations that could conceivably affect our operations. The elephant in…
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RESEARCH FUND EMBRACES INNOVATION
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a $3 billion endowment funding scientific research programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has helped finance life-changing scientific innovation, from human embryonic stem cell treatments to the processing technologies that underpin modern computing. An equally bold and experimental ethos underscores investment strategy at the fund. A risk parity strategy with…
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France Creates $13 Billion Disruptive Innovation Fund, Hopes To Become The Next Startup Republic
France is gaining momentum in its quest to become the next great producer of technology startups. Last year, it outstripped the UK in the overall number of technology startup investment deals for the first time in five years. Although the total amount of money invested in the UK’s tech sector was over twice higher than France,…
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Price Controls Will Reduce Innovation and Health Outcomes
Abraham Kaplan famously noted that if you, “give a small boy a hammer, he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.” Put differently, solving problems requires the right tool, not the convenient tool. Congress should remember this wisdom in its upcoming deliberations regarding the cost of prescription drugs. The convenient tool when it comes…
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Startup de saúde Healthtech recebe aporte de R$5 milhões
Com foco em um atendimento solícito e rápido, a Beep Saúde utiliza a tecnologia para cuidar da saúde e bem-estar de pacientes através do agendamento de consultas. No aplicativo você escolhe a especialidade e marca a consulta médica ou o serviço de vacinação onde você estiver! Precisando de um atendimento de excelência na comodidade de sua…
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Canada’s innovation Budget 2017
Justin Trudeau’s government has talked a good game on innovation and skills development, but this year’s budget looks like more of the same In some ways, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget is a vanilla-flavoured budget—generally acceptable and unlikely to offend most people. The government stays the course of Budget 2016, expanding on areas like…
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UK Gov’t unveils £86m package to support SMEs
14th July 2017 Health minister Lord O’Shaughnessy has unveiled a new package of support worth up to £86 million to help innovative UK businesses develop medical breakthroughs that are then used across the NHS. The funding marks the first step in taking forward recommendations made in the Accelerated Access Review (AAR), which aim to accelerate…
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Couple donates $20 million to encourage innovation at Sutter Health
Do you have $20 million to spare to give to a cause you love? Michael and Judith Gaulke apparently do. The Silicon Valley couple has donated that amount to create the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sacramento, California-based Sutter Health. It’s the single largest donation in Sutter’s history, and it’s geared toward breathing air…
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Manchester is the winner of Innovation award for wearable medical
A wearable medical device that monitors kidney function and could reduce the time spent by transplant patients in hospital has won a prestigious innovation award. IF Sensing has claimed the Merseyside Innovation Award (MIA) for April 2017. The company was founded in 2012 as a spin-out from Central Manchester University Teaching Hospital Trust and University…
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