POSTS TAGGED AS innovation

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]

Trends in Population Health

One implication of healthcare reform is that not-for-profit “community hospitals” will demonstrate a greater mission role by keeping people [MORE]

More Thoughts on “Disruptive Innovation”

Probably no one since Edwards Deming and his “14 Recommendations” has had better insights into the technical economy than [MORE]

Robert R. Miller to be Keynote Speaker at Medical Automation Conference 2011

Robert R. Miller currently heads the Communications Technology Research Department at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, N.J.
He helped [MORE]

Healthcare: What Needs Fixing, Patient Insights

The patient forgot to mention that her father died of an aneurism; the print on her medication instructions was [MORE]

Home Grown Innovation at Cleveland Clinic

Many hospitals prefer innovations that derive from their own experience, and the ones that actually promote this do the [MORE]

NSF’s I-Corps for Start-Up Business Development

The National Science Foundation has created a new grants program that will award $50k to 100 recipients for turning [MORE]

Desktop Manufacturing

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

IBM Making Medical History, 1911-2011

Last month, IBM celebrated its centennial, and over that time span, it has made remarkable developments in biomedical technologies: e.g. [MORE]

IBM’s “Smart Camp”

As part of its Global Entrepreneur Initiative, IBM has created a “Smart Camp” in Austin, Texas where innovators of [MORE]

Institute for Pediatric Innovation

The Institute for Pediatric Innovation (Cambridge, MA) is a consortium of public, private, non-profit and for-profit members that seek [MORE]

Open Innovation

UC-Berkeley business school professor Henry Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” in his 2003 book with that title.  In [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic and MedStar’s Innovation Collaboration

Cleveland Clinic Innovations (the Clinic’s new technology development group) and MedStar’s Institute for Innovation have started a three year [MORE]

Healthcare Innovations-Mainly for Poor Countries

The McKinsey Quarterly surveys healthcare payer and provider services around the world, mentioning Mexico’s “Medical Home” telemedicine service that provides [MORE]

Bluetooth Innovation World Cup

Early this year, the sponsors of the Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, including Nokia, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, et al, [MORE]

Business Model Innovation in Healthcare

Rapid technological advances, regulatory reform, and the new science of personalized medicine are the three primary factors driving [MORE]

We Love Automation, As Long As It’s Nothing New

OBJECTIVE: To explore and understand the common institutional impediments to innovation.
DESCRIPTION: Based on the observed behavior of many large organizations, [MORE]