Many people think they know what the founder of a tech start-up looks like: a 20-something man who spent his childhood playing on computers in his basement and who later dropped out of college to become a billionaire entrepreneur. That describes Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and...
To listen to cybersecurity experts talk shop can be akin to watching a horror film: It’s scary but you can’t seem to turn away. They use terms such as “the dark web,” “takers,” “buyers,” “key strokers” and “memory dumpers” to describe a world where hackers, who...
July 4 is upon us, and with that also comes “Data Independence Day,” when consumers are supposed to start asking en masse for copies of their medical records, in hopes of demonstrating to providers, IT vendors and healthcare policy-makers that there truly is wide demand...
The sprawling field hospital that springs up in rural southwest Virginia every summer has been called the largest health-care outreach operation of its kind. This year, the event will host another first. Unmanned aerial vehicles — drones — will deliver medicine to the Wise County Fairgrounds in...
Streamlined blogging platform Medium rolled out a new login process Monday that throws the trusty old password out the window. Instead, you simply enter an email address or phone number, and a temporary login link lands in your inbox or phone—just like password reset or...
'Finance departments will need to prepare to manage these challenges and have better systems to measure performance' As healthcare providers shift away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment models, they're hitting some serious roadblocks – one of them being that the majority of them lack sophisticated IT...
Exact Sciences’ ambitious plan to commercialize molecular diagnostic tests for several of the deadliest cancers is starting to come into focus. Fresh off announcing a partnership with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to co-develop multiple blood-based diagnostic tests for lung cancer,...
If you're intent on going the VC route then what you do say in your pitch is just as important as what you don't. While venture capital isn't right for the vast majority of businesses, if you've decided to go that route then I'm going to...
Think healthcare data security is a bigger problem now than it was a year ago? Insiders would agree. In a newly released survey from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 87 percent of health information security officers and other health IT professionals said that cybersecurity...
My recommended reading list for this summer includes 10 books with very different approaches to innovation. In some cases, these books take you inside the thought process of a top innovator, whether it’s a Silicon Valley entrepreneur (Elon Musk), a Hollywood filmmaker (Brian Grazer) or...