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Lessons in Failure – Why 3M’s Post-It Notes Almost Didn’t Happen
These days, there is hardly a household, business, or even computer screen that isn’t covered in some variation of those popular little yellow adhesive notes. How many households and businesses today...
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The Oil Industry Preventing PE? – The Story of the Greenfield Filter
Faced with a common postoperative problem, preventing thromboemboli (blood clots) without using blood thinners, Dr. Lazar Greenfield had to look outside of healthcare for a solution. He considered...
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MedStar Inventor Forums – A First Hand Account
A diverse crowd filled the True Auditorium at Washington Hospital Center on June 14, 2011. Associates in scrubs, suits, lab coats, and street clothes, representing every part of the MedStar family...
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Good Design, Poor Design
We see them every day… Or do we? All around us, in every nook and cranny of healthcare, there are opportunities for improvement and opportunities for outright innovation. It may not be a new device,...
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Another Cool Example of Biomimicry in Healthcare Innovation
Biomimicry comes from bio- and mimesis, literally “to imitate life”. Biomimicry is a structured look at how the natural world has solved problems or created opportunities and attempting to apply those...
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Health Innovation Adoption Curves – From Scurvy To 2025
It took consuming citrus fruits for the prevention of scurvy 264 years from discovery to widespread adoption. Today, the time from discovery to implementation is estimated at 17 or 18 years. How much...
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3 Transformative Effects of mHealth and 3 Colliding Phenomena
Mobile Health, or mHealth as it’s commonly called, is helping transform healthcare, with three effects— Improving Outcomes Reducing Costs Extending Access. There are, according to Research2Guidance,...
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Activity Tracking, Part 1 of 2
Fitness Tracking, along with Diet and Exercise, is a Top 3 category in Health & Fitness on smartphones and tablets in America today. Losing weight is thought to be a two-sided coin, portion control...
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Blending with the Cloud
Kevin Maloy, 3 March 2015 During today’s JAM Session we began to integrate the Internet of Things into our physical lives. Using IFTTT we created recipes to help people be more mindful, use the...
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Tablet shipments dropped. Are we witnessing the death of tablets?
Mike Gillam, 2 April 2015 Tablet shipments slipped dropping 16% last quarter. Already some are predicting the death of the tablet. But is that really the predictable fate of the tablet? Documents have...
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What Could “Big Brother” Listening do for Healthcare?
Mike Gillam, 8 April 2015 Until recently, voice recognition was a function we manually invoked. A stream of new hardware is entering the market that listens for voice commands continuously. Google’s...
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How Close is Medicine to an AI doctor?
Mike Gillam, 21 April 2015 Companies have been pushing the state-of-the-art of building clinical algorithms into computer systems with impressive results. Anvita Health instantiated over 20,000...
View ArticleOptimal Design for Home Health Monitoring Given the Gray Tsunami (Part 1 of 4)
Brittany Weinberg & Pete Celano, 3 June, 2015 About one-fifth of the U.S. population will be 65 or older by the year 2030, and a major goal of older adults is aging safely and comfortably in place,...
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