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Suddenly It’s All About The APIs
[...Turns] out I’ve got a number of events coming up where I’m on tap to discuss the emergence of “APIs” in Health and what it might mean for interoperability and adoption. The first of these is tomorrow at ITdotHealth at Harvard; great to follow-up the meeting that kicked off so much of the “Health Internet” movement back in 2009! Read More »
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Summary Of “ITdotHealth II” – The 2012 Harvard Health IT Meeting
The following is an overview of the conference, held September 10-11, 2012. In several weeks, we will post a complete executive summary, as well as videos and slide presentations from the event. Read More »
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Support Material: How One Company Built The 3-D Printer Market Layer By Layer
Upstart 3-D printer companies have captured the attention of makers, but a 30 year old company called 3D Systems is having a record year on Wall Street. The company just announced an 81 percent increase in sales of their 3-D printers, catapulting their market capitalization over $4 billion. [...] Read More »
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Take Long View On Health Reform
Americans, especially the press, seem to be obsessive regarding the Affordable Care Act — or the sobriquet "Obamacare," as it has been dubbed. At first I was slightly disheartened by this, but, given further thought, it is only natural. For far too many years, we had no cohesive "system" for our health care, and now everyone, so it seems, is looking at a real system. Read More »
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The East African “Miracle Grain” That Could Become The Next Quinoa
There’s a huge business opportunity hiding in the fields of East Africa. Teff, a golden, wheat-like grain, has quinoa-like potential. It’s gluten-free, and boasts all kinds of highly marketable health traits that have made quinoa such a hit in countries like the United States: high in calcium, protein, iron, and amino acids. [...] Read More »
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The Future Of Big Data : Open Source v. Proprietary |#BigDataSV
In last week’s companion to SiliconANGLE’s #BigDataNYC, theCUBE broadcast live from Silicon Valley, highlighting the ongoing maturity of Big Data for 2014 and beyond. John Furrier welcomed theCUBE alumni Bruno Aziza and Rishi Yadev for one of the more interesting conversations centering on the method and business model that will further advance the adoption of Big Data in the Enterprise. Read More »
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The Holy Grail Of New Drug Development
The announcement by Zydus Cadila in early June that their new drug to treat diabetics who also suffer from high cholesterol has passed all stages of clinical trials is an important landmark for the Indian pharmaceutical industry. [...] Read More »
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The Internet Radio Fairness Act: What It Is, Why It’s Needed
The 2012 campaign is almost over, which means Congress may soon be able to get back to business. One of the things it should prioritize is fixing a longstanding tax on innovation that most folks don’t know about, but they should: the unfair legal treatment of Internet radio. Read More »
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The Irresistible Rise Of Android
In the wake of the news that Android sales now represent around 75% of the global smartphone market during the most recent quarter, there's still some surprise that this has happened. After all, this was a sector that Apple absolutely dominated just a few years ago. Some find it hard to understand how Android has pulled this off in just five years. Read More »
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The Largest Payment Platform On Earth Can Reach 2 Billion People–So Why Haven’t You Heard Of It?
When Jana co-founder Nathan Eagle needed to connect to a cell carrier in the developing world, he’d come to meetings with a duffel bag full of cash and say that he wanted to buy airtime. For carriers who were taking on more customers than ever, but struggling with declining revenue per user, it was an irresistible sales pitch. The result, two years later, is that Jana is now the largest payment platform in the world. Read More »
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The PC Market Hasn't Been This Bad Since IBM Released Its First PC
When Microsoft released Windows 8 last fall, a lot of people thought it could be the PC's savior, a hip-looking new thing that made those clunky IBM-compatibles cool again. In fact, it's quite the opposite... Read More »
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The Prospects Of The HTML5-Based Firefox OS
With the fast expanding reach of the Internet and the approaching of the era of cloud computing, the HTML5 open platform enables quick development of cross-platform applications, easing concerns that there may be different user experience on different connected devices. [...] Read More »
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The Story Behind The CommonWell Story
Arguably, the biggest news story coming out of HIMSS last month was the announcement of the CommonWell Health Alliance – a vendor-led initiative to enable query-based, clinical data sharing. So much has been written about CommonWell that there is little need to rehash what has been said before. Read More »
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The Sun Is Setting On Dollar Supremacy, And With It, American Power
A serious alternative to the dollar is still a long way off, but the latest shenanigans on Capitol Hill have given the search for them renewed momentum Read More »
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These Graphs Show How Fast Hospitals Are Adopting Computers -- And How Far They Have To Go
On Monday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published its annual report on health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
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