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I do, and I asked my wife the same thing as we watched "The Immortalists," a documentary about Doctors Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, who want to "live forever or die trying." It was a mind-expanding film. See http://medgroup.biz/the-immortalists P...
In 2014, the Medical Devices Group swelled past a quarter-million members, we hosted the second annual 10x Medical Device Conference, and many of you met in person, talked here, and made valuable business connections. Here are the most popular discus...
As originally asked by Giovanni Lauricella. Having worked with numerous startup medical device companies, I have come across companies that have the executive team all remotely located, all centralized, or a blend. Furthermore, I have run into compan...
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...
IBM's Global Medical Device Business Development Leader Stephen Pierce joined last year's 10x Conference with thoughts on wireless and wearables' impact on healthcare. See the replay at http://medgroup.biz/IBM-health (transcript also available) "A gr...
How do you alert everyone on your development team about product risks? In an email? A shared drive? Verbal communication in a team meeting? A recent study of 500 employees working on Class II or Class III devices (see http://medgroup.biz/managing-ri...
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...
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...
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...
Hi All. I was wondering if anyone can point me to documentation that says it is either legal or not to collect a credit card from a patient with insurance or medicaid for a deductible at the time of "purchase" with insurance to cover a remaining bala...
