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A pivotal moment in my honest opinion! In a move that underscores the increasingly important role of genomics in medicine, UC San Francisco has appointed Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PhD, as the first Chief Genomics Officer (CGO) of UCSF Health. His…
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Afgelopen week stond in het teken van Dutch Hacking Health event: op zeven plaatsen in Nederland vonden hackathons plaats om zoveel mogelijke innovatieve ideeën te bedenken om de zorg beter te maken. De beste ideeën hoeven niet groots en meeslepend…
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Cleveland — Wouldn’t you like a look inside the Cleveland Clinic’s innovation mindset? Attendees at the HIMSS and Health 2.0 Dev4Health event here this week got just such a glimpse.Teams have spent the past few years focused on developing a…
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As a technology optimist I like to say, “what can be imagined technologically reasonably can be invented” is more true than not and more a matter of time and focus. — Via https://medium.com/@vkhosla/reinventing-societal-infrastructure-with-technology-f71e0d4f2355
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Ict zou een wapen moeten zijn tegen personeelstekorten in de zorg, maar het tegendeel lijkt het geval. Alles moet geadministreerd en afgevinkt. Hoorndol worden de artsen, verpleegkundigen ervan. De chirurg in opleiding: ‘Hoe moet ik zo ooit leren opereren?’ —…
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It’s the stuff disruptors dream of. A group of Seattle doctors and investors had a plan to revolutionize primary care by freeing themselves, and their patients, from the dictates of insurance. They would charge a monthly membership fee for delivering…
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The question is whether they indeed shelved it, or as they do for a couple of years, decide every year if this is the year they are going to engage with it, or not. Amazon Business, which sells bulk items…
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Interesting longread on a “FREE” model of dental care. Last December, we changed dental insurance. The new insurer included in its offering a set of “free” electric toothbrushes, the vibrating “sonic” kind called evocatively “Beam Brush.” One for each of…
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Our organisations are generally bad at innovation. That’s because they are designed that way. Just as your body is designed to fight a common cold, most of our cultures protect the organisational DNA from any foreign antibodies. Add something new and it…
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Great blog by Bart de Witte. Aligns with our vision and mission to ‘use’ space health as a level of global health.It has always been thrilling to see how that Moonshot of JFK booster al kinds of other developments we…
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