POSTS TAGGED AS healthcare

Panasonic’s North American Healthcare Group

Japan’s consumer electronics giants, which once dominated the world market for televisions, music machines, and cameras, have been losing [MORE]

Grading Medical Apps

Healthcare-related smart phone apps now number in the tens of thousands and, one day, could provide a physician’s prescription [MORE]

Making Money from Big Data

Will “big data” analytics become the basis for a new wave of industrialization, across multiple sectors?  McKinsey & Company [MORE]

Steven Burrill’s 2012 Predictions for Biotech

G. Steve Burill
Burrill & Company, the life sciences investment firm in San Francisco, reviews the biomedical landscape from financial [MORE]

Industrialization of Medicine

Is “evidence-based practice” a fair tradeoff for “clinical judgment?” Does healthcare need to be industrialized and standardized-enabled to run [MORE]

Growing Market for Wireless Patient Monitoring

BP Monitor Wristwatch
Business analyst Kalorama Information (NYC) reports that the fastest growing sector (in terms of earned revenue) for [MORE]

Designing Home Healthcare Devices

Omnipod for Insulin Administration
Lots of indicators suggest that today’s point-of-care devices in hospitals will be tomorrow’s consumer products for [MORE]

Projections on the Healthcare Workforce

A recent planning study on the national healthcare workforce projected job growth in this sector to rise from 10.5% [MORE]

Robots as Half the US Labor Force

“In two years there will be 1.2 million robots working on Earth, that is one robot per 5,000 humans. As [MORE]

Where Healthcare Investors Are Placing Their Bets

Among thirteen “hot” areas for private equity investment in healthcare are hospital systems, ambulatory surgery center chains, mobile health [MORE]

Medically Based Economic Development

Every state and numerous counties have economic development strategists hoping to create clusters of new business around one technology or [MORE]

Hospitals, Comparative Revenue

Want to know where a huge slice of healthcare revenue goes?  Here are two lists, one non-profit and the [MORE]

Desktop Manufacturing

HP 3-D Printer
It wasn’t all that long ago that desktop publishing was a hot topic; now desktop manufacturing, based [MORE]

Disney’s Concept of Healthcare Excellence

In 2004, Fred Lee published If Disney Ran Your Hospital, 9 ½ Things You Would Do Differently, based on [MORE]