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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research
Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media. Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers. To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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MindReader, Matched Flicker, and 8 More Cool Startups at the Healthcare Innovation Summit
In addition to all the smart, insightful speakers talking about innovation in healthcare and all the entrepreneurs in the startup showcase at CONVERGE last week, there were more than 50 other startups at the event. Here are a few of the most promising ideas and growing companies we heard about in Philadelphia. Read More »
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MIT Hackathon Tackles HIV, CHF, Parkinson’s With Open-Source Technology
It seems counterintuitive for those who proudly wear the “hacker” label to seek ways to work with established industry players rather than being disruptive in a healthcare sector badly in need of radical change, but that was what happened at Health and Wellness Innovation 2013, the recently concluded 11-day event better known as MIT Media Lab’s Health and Wellness Hackathon. Read More »
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New VA Innovation Center To Build On Success Of VAi2
The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that it is establishing a new VA Center for Innovation, or VACI, that will build on the three-year track record of the VA Innovation Initiative, known as VAi2. Read More »
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Open Development And Social Impact Bonds: Rethinking Healthcare Delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services Read More »
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Park, VanRoekel Seek Next Class Of Change Agents
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is again looking for top innovators and entrepreneurs from the private sector, non-profits and academia to collaborate with government officials for 6-month to 12-month tours of duty focused on developing solutions to nationally important issues. Read More »
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Problem Solving at FrontlineSMS
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m a bit obsessed with words. Not just words themselves, but how we use them, what that shows us about how we think, and what it means when their definitions creep. [...] Either way, it’s gotten me thinking about something. We have to change the way we talk about solving problems. Read More »
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RFP-EZ Delivers Early Value
RFP-EZ has been touted as a faster, easier way for tech companies to compete for the federal government's IT contracts, and now data suggests the pilot program also has the potential to save big taxpayer dollars. Read More »
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Singing A New Tune: Redefining Innovation In The Medical Device World
In the world of medical devices, innovation has traditionally been defined as the invention of a new device or a new technology that can be packaged into a device, expanding the number of possible medical procedures or at least replacing old ones with those that are new, improved and lemon-scented... Read More »
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Smart Disclosure Makes Consumers Happier And Markets Better
The government collects reams of information that might benefit citizens, but just opening that data up to the public isn’t enough, according to a task force report released Thursday. Read More »
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The Future According To Megan Smith
Women 2.0 conference keynote speaker and Google[x] VP Megan Smith gives us a glimpse of her 2020 vision — and it’s pretty inspiring. Read More »
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The Internet? We Built That
Like many of the bedrock technologies that have come to define the digital age, the Internet was created by — and continues to be shaped by — decentralized groups of scientists and programmers and hobbyists (and more than a few entrepreneurs) freely sharing the fruits of their intellectual labor with the entire world... Read More »
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The Law That Gave Us The Modern Internet—And The Campaign To Kill It
Ever heard of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? It gave birth to the social web. Here's why we need more laws just like it. Read More »
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Todd Park Speaks At IFE INFO Public Policy Roundtable On July 11, 2013
United States Chief Technology Officer, Assistant to the President and “entrepreneur-in-residence” Todd Park was IFE’s honored guest speaker at the June 11th INFO Public Policy Roundtable. [...] Read More »
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Top 5 Things Investors Look For In A Fundable Digital Health Startup
Dr. Saif Abed shares his top five key investment criteria when reviewing a digital health startup. Read More »
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