Category: Blog Post
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A Woman-less World of Innovation
What if we imagined every day was a day without a woman? What would society have looked like without the contributions of women? More specifically – where would the digital health and healthcare world be without women today? Let us take a trip back in history and look at some of the early women, who…
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Massachusetts Launched A Digital Health Initiative: What Does It Mean for Startups?
Last week, MassChallenge unveiled more details about its Fenway innovation lab during a ribbon cutting ceremony, including – drumroll, please – its name: PULSE@MassChallenge. Also announced was the Massachusetts Innovation Catalyst Fund, a $25.8 million fund that will invest in digital healthcare companies headquartered (or with significant operations) in Massachusetts.
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Innovating from the Front Lines
Last month, several team members walked into our Innovation Lab in the hospital to find a note on our whiteboard (pictured above).In large writing it read: “Lower the cost of goods sold/consumed by using medical staff at every level to help innovate and engineer product and patent creation. Everybody, everywhere, see [a] need, fill a need.”
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iHub Innovates Trauma Care with Stepping Strong
Last month, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide tuned in to see more than 30,000 runners compete in the 120th Boston Marathon. I walked down to Beacon Street in Brookline with my two boys, where hundreds more were there to cheer on the runners – it was a beautiful day.
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Top Ten Reasons Boston is the Ultimate Digital Health Hub
Boston is full of history. It’s home of the Boston Tea Party, the U.S.S. Constitution, the Freedom Trail, and scores of people who’ve made names for themselves here, too. While […]
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Interview with ICD-Nav, iHub’s 2015 BWH Hackathon Winner
Interview by iHub friend and blogger, Ryan Allen, Practice Coordinator at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital. * Recently, I had a chance to talk with a few members of the […]
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The Great Divide: mental health, medicine, and consumer health
It was exciting to attend this year’s Partners Connected Health Symposium and hear people talking about emotion monitoring. Our mental health is the next frontier. Leading up to the conference I wrote this […]
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BWH Clinical & Research News: Winners of the Department of Radiology and Innovation Hub Funding Pitch Session Announced
BWH’s Department of Radiology and the Brigham Innovation Hub (iHub) held part one of a funding pitch session in July to determine which three of five innovative radiology projects would […]
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MedTech Boston – Ask the Experts: Is Innovating Within an Academic Medical Center Really Possible?
Jeff Greenberg, MD, is the medical director of the Innovation Hub at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He also practices medicine part-time at a patient-centered medical home. “It is entirely possible to […]
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Boston Business Journal: Health care giants talk about what they need from local startups
From apps that help diabetes patients track their insulin levels to a program that can manage a person’s medications, innovators are abound in the health care market. But how do these […]