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Rather than isolating doctors, emerging technologies promise to be fundamentally enabling, allowing doctors to redefine and strengthen their relationships -- with patients and with colleagues. The result: a new sense of connection and meaning. Read More...
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Sun, Apr 14 2013
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Effective, actionable healthcare solutions will require the creativity, imagination, and dedicated efforts of many different people encompassing a range of backgrounds and talents. Not last on this list should be those who have already committed themselves and their careers to the treatment of disease...
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Tue, Apr 2 2013
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Medical product companies that figure out how to embrace and most effectively apply emerging analytic and digital health technologies, and think creatively about new risk-sharing business models, will be best positioned to deliver impactful medicines to patients, durable health to populations, and long...
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Sat, Mar 23 2013
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Other industries have mastered customer service; now it's time for medicine. Read More...
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The principles driving the development of the Obama campaign's data platform can also guide our approach to digital health. Read More...
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Sun, Nov 18 2012
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Does digital health need to create robust, stand-alone enterprises in order to be successful, impactful, or funded? Read More...
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Wed, Oct 10 2012
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Digital health can redefine medicine -- but will benefit from a wider ranger of investors, including those with deep healthcare expertise. Read More...
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Big data may be the future of health; should biopharma invest in this capability now or continue to wait? Read More...
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Fri, Jul 27 2012
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Profound change is far more likely to originate not from a process-laden organization leveraging scale but rather from an impassioned, narrative-driven company, formed around a compelling idea that’s engaged the mind and spirit of small number of highly motivated people, viscerally driven to pursue this...
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Thu, May 17 2012
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A fascinating article by today in Bloomberg discusses the efforts by ’s to catalyze the discovery of a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease, a condition his mother suffers from, and for which genetic testing reportedly indicates he may be at relatively high risk. This article discusses at least three important...
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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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Fri, Mar 30 2012
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If you don’t think this is a dispiriting time to be in Big Pharma, you obviously haven’t spent time with anyone who works there, laboring in the trenches. I have – in fact, I’ve spent the last several days at a professional workshop with a number of colleagues from a range of companies – and [...] Read...
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Fri, Mar 16 2012
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Reid Hoffman’s talk this week at Stanford (podcast and video available here) touched on several themes that collectively seem to comprise the Silicon Valley innovator ethos; most are relevant to healthcare and biopharma, and I agree with all his assertions except one. (Hoffman, for those tuning in late...
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Thu, Feb 23 2012
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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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Sat, Feb 11 2012
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