Though often painfully awkward, the corporate embrace of innovation may still be a good thing. Read More...
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The legacy of Steve Jobs appears to be following the inevitable adoption arc from bleeding edge to Successories; today’s WSJ describes managers’ often excruciating attempts to channel their inner Steve Jobs, and apply his management secrets to their parochial situations. As the authors note, “Mimicking...
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A few quick impressions from last night’s FutureMed extravaganza put on by Singularity University at the Museum of Computer History, a stone’s throw from ’s Mountain View headquarters. The event featured an exhibition session where emerging digital health companies (with some others) demo’d their initial...
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3600 people and I went to the mHealth Summit earlier this week in Washington, DC and, having spent the better part of 48 hours listening, I am still not sure what to make of this emerging healthcare sector. read more Read More...
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As has been well documented here and elsewhere, Apple’s devices have seen impressive adoption among healthcare professionals. iPhones, iPods, and iPads have — along with other mobile devices — served as useful mobile platforms for health-related apps and services for general consumers...
There is a great forbes.com article by Matthew Herper titled Why Steve Jobs’ Magic Doesn’t Work In Medicine on the Forbes website. In the article the Mr. Herper takes the position that there have been as many wonderful innovations in healthcare technology as there have been in consumer technology...
In a post I wrote for Friday’s Atlantic.com (“America’s healthy infatuation with entrepreneurs”), I discussed the appeal of the entrepreneur ideal, and contrasted the persona of the representative entrepreneur (exuberant, brash, emotional, excitable) with that of the typical Fortune 500 CEO (measured...
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It’s simply amazing that Apple iPhones and iPads continue to dominate technology conversations, despite the impressive advances of competing Android smart phones and tablets. Further illustrated in the wake of Steve Jobs’s unfortunate death last week, Apple has done a masterful job of producing...
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When I was at ASHHRA 2011, a Human Resources Manager revealed she just learned a member of their management team had suddenly passed away. Not only was she upset because she knew and cared for this person, but she also unexpectedly had a position to fill. At the time, it made me wonder what that must...
From Ashton Kutcher to NASA, many are paying their respects on Twitter about the death of Steve Jobs. With over 12 different trending topics dedicated to the Apple co-founder, Twitter struggled to keep up with the news feed. Thousands of users reported seeing the "Fail Whale," a cartoon sperm...
When I was at MIT, a postdoc heard I had just picked up a brand spanking new Compaq 386 with dual 5.25″ and 3.5″ floppy drives. He wanted my computer bad for he needed it to do some robotics programming. This being my brand new computer with all the bells and whistles, I was very [...]
We have much to be thankful for about the life of Steve Jobs and with the news of his far too early passing I can’t help but reflect on some of those things. As I drove into the office today I was listening to an audio book that was played from an iPhone. When I [...]