For those of us of a certain age, a "Kodak moment" connotes a special event that should be captured by a photo, presumably on Kodak film. For younger generations, the term probably doesn't mean anything, because they don't know what Kodak is and have never seen film. That's why, for some, "Kodak moment" has come to suggest a turning point when big companies and even entire industries can become obsolete. Health care could soon be at such a point. Anthony Jenkins, a former CEO of Barclay's, recently warned that banks could face a Kodak moment soon...
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Nanotechnology to Achieve Cost Efficiencies within Global Medical Devices Value Chain (TechVision) - Leading the Way Forward for OEMs - Research and Markets
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Research and Markets |
November 16, 2016
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology to Achieve Cost Efficiencies within Global Medical Devices Value Chain (TechVision)" report to their offering. Development of nanotechnology-based medical devices enables major cost reduction across the medical device value chain, as it offers very high bargaining power to suppliers of medical device OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). This research service (RS) analyzes the need for adoption of nanotechnologies in the medical devices industry, which are poised to enable creation of innovative medical device technologies that boost the overall quality of life for patients, and care providers...
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A Connected Garden Can Reap More Of What You Sow
Lauren Orsini | ReadWrite | November 4, 2013
You don't have a green thumb, but your devices might. [...] If you find yourself accidentally killing your plants, maybe it’s time to hand over the controls to somebody else. Make that something else—connected devices that use quantified data to nurture your plants into their most verdant and fruitful selves. Read More »
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European Nanotechnology Project Compiled Open-Access Nanotoxicology Database
Staff Writer | Nanowerk News | October 7, 2013
Nanotechnology has led to advances in many diverse areas, including medicine and health care, information technology (IT), energy, household and consumer products. An EU-funded project has set up a web-based information system to provide information on impact of nanoparticles on health, safety and the environment. Read More »
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Health Care's Kodak Moment
By Kim Bellard | July 24, 2017
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Is "Modern Medicine" Indistinguishable From Magic?
By Kim Bellard | December 27, 2016
Evidently, most of health care's technologies are not yet sufficiently advanced. For example, just think about chemotherapy. We've spent lots of money developing ever more powerful, always more expensive, hopefully more precise drugs to combat cancers. In many cases they've helped improve cancer patients' lifespans -- adding months or even years of life. But few who take them would say the drugs are without noticeable side effects -- e.g., patients often suffer nausea, vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, appetite loss, sexual issues, or a mental fog that is literally called "chemo brain."...
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Living in a Retro Health Care System
By Kim Bellard | January 24, 2017
EHRs are a perfect example of how we took something that should revolutionize health care, and turned it into something that not only no one is happy with but that many feel often impedes care, to the point some want to go back to paper records. That's not retro, that's just stupid. We didn't do the wrong thing with EHRs, we just are doing it wrong. As I've written before, we should be thinking big and bold about how we want our health care system to work in the 21st century. We should be setting tough goals for how effectively it works for us -- and expecting to achieve them. We should be looking forward, not backward...
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Malaria Detection Device To Be Field Tested A Year Ahead Of Schedule
Greg Slabodkin | FierceMobileHealthcare | April 29, 2013
A European Union-funded mHealth project to develop a mobile device using nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance will be ready for field testing in 2013--a year ahead of schedule--according to a university announcement. Read More »
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Nanomal Smartphone-Like Malaria Detection Device To Be Field Tested One Year Earlier Than Scheduled
Staff Writer | St. George's University of London | April 25, 2013
A pioneering mobile device using cutting-edge nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance will be ready for field testing this year, one year ahead of schedule. Read More »
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Open Science Leaps Forward In 2014
Marcus D. Hanwell | Opensource.com | December 23, 2014
We have had quite a year of open science at Opensource.com in 2014! I couldn't hope to cover every article we published over the year, but I will highlight some of my favorites...
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Print Me a New Arm, Please - Bionics and 3D Printing add to a Revolution in Medicine
By Kim Bellard | April 6, 2016
I just realized that I hadn't ever really written about two hot trends in health care: bionics and 3D printing. I better get to it before they become mainstream, or are superseded by something even newer. Let start with bionics. According to Merriam-Webster, bionic means "having normal biological capability or performance enhanced by or as if by electronic or electromechancial devices." Bionics is the science of this...Bionics is estimated to be an $8b market (2014), with a projected 13.2% CAGR that would bring it to $20.5b by 2020. The artificial kidney market is said to account for some 60% of the market, with livers expected to be the fastest growing segment over the period.
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Quora Response: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Kori Schulman | Whitehouse.gov | July 31, 2012
On the Q&A platform Quora today, Chief Technology Officer Todd Park answered a question about President Obama’s efforts to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship. Read Todd's response below, or join the conversation on Quora. Read More »
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Sticking It To Big Pharma With Crowdfunded Nanotech
Laura Hood | The Conversation | July 16, 2013
Students at the University of York are challenging what they see as the closed worlds of nanotechnology and healthcare by crowdsourcing funds to produce a new type of treatment for cancer using magnetic nanoparticles. Read More »
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The Web Is in Danger, Copyright Reform Can Break the Internet
Nino Vranešič | El Nino Blog | September 15, 2016
Basic copyright laws and enforcements have been in effect for hundreds of years.
Let’s go back in the history: First Industrial Revolution was based on water and steam power to mechanize production. The second was all about electricity which helped create mass production. The third, connected electronics and information technology to automate production. Now we live in “Fourth Industrial Revolution” which we also call the digital revolution...
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Top 10 Malaria Innovations
Anna Scott | The Guardian | April 29, 2013
Last week we asked readers to send in the best innovations they had seen that help eliminate malaria. Read More »
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Visualizing Nanotechnology in 3D with Open Source Software
By Robert Hovden | September 27, 2014
The new open source project tomviz is helping the 3D visualization of nanotechnology...In this user-friendly, cross-platform application, large volumetric datasets can be rendered, animated, sliced, and analyzed. The platform provides a robust graphical interface where multiple datasets, colormaps, and other visualization settings can be used in combination and these objects can be saved as image or animated video files...
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