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And 200,000 is the low estimate. Medical errors will take 200,000+ lives in the U.S. this year. It's 3 million lives worldwide. I attended the World Patient Safety Forum this weekend and learned: - Medical errors are the third leading cause of death....
The Product Portfolio Management Benchmark results are in. 46% of product development organizations have challenges getting accurate data to make portfolio decisions. Do you? Have you missed a time-to-market window or revenue target as a result? C.R....
Privately held Theranos, valued at $9 billion, got a one-two punch of FDA visit and negative WSJ coverage this week. "This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden...
We discussed the 21st Century Cures Act last week at http://bit.ly/21cures and linked to a US Energy and Commerce Committee (ECC) paper which included this passage: "In a perfect world, R&D dollars would flow toward the areas of highest need where th...
From Bloomberg: The U.S.’s biggest health insurer is considering pulling out of Obamacare, a month after saying it would expand its presence in the program. UnitedHealth Group Inc. is scaling back marketing efforts for plans it’s selling this year un...
As originally asked by Joerg Schulze-Clewing. Friday I quickly needed info about susceptibility standards for pacemakers. Quickly as in "right now". So I went to the AAMI web site, found the respective standard, whipped out my credit card but then de...
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We had a discussion, "Got a $10-million idea? Who cares!" at http://bit.ly/10MM-whocares nearly two years ago. At the time I asked a panel of VCs, "What about the guy who has the $10 or $20 million idea, where does he go?" Serial entrepreneur Danny S...
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At last week's annual Exponential Medicine program from Singularity University, futurist and Google Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil said, "I'm developing these neocortical models. We don't perfectly know how the neocortex works but we have enoug...
