Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the 2011 Health Data Initiative Forum at the National Institutes of Health’s Natcher Conference Center. In case you weren’t able to make it, the hashtag was #healthapps, and here are 5 things that caught my attention at this year’s forum: Ozioma – Ozioma is a site, currently finishing [...]

When we were speculating about “the next big thing” that might launch at SXSW, Chris Hall mentioned Beluga. This group messaging company was recently acquired by Facebook. That caught my interest, but not enough to download the app. The next day, I read Steve Cheney’s blog post about joining GroupMe. I arrived at his blog [...]

When you’re in the midst of an historic moment, you can feel it.  Something is happening that is simply bigger than the immediate. This two day gathering in Dubai is such a moment.  I believe we will look back on the history of global entrepreneurship, which is really the essence of so much of history [...]

This week kicks of the Celebration of Entrepreneurs (CoE) event –#CoE2010.   It is a great honor for HealthCentral and me that I’ve been invited to a historic assembly of entrepreneurs from the Middle East.  Gathered today in Dubai are over 2,500 young, tenacious, brilliant women and men, from around the world, sharing ideas and learning – [...]

Three events in early June spotlighted the pace of change in how new treatments are being created.  The biggest winners from new approaches to drug development will be patients, who hold all the keys to how new treatments are found and tested.  The clearest losers will be policymakers, who will face more worries about meeting [...]

The room was packed (again) at last night’s #Health2Stat meeting, which brings together an eclectic group of people who care about health care to chat about new innovations and cool projects. Topics ranged from global mobile innovation to accuracy in reporting medical news – all presentations under 5 minutes for those of us who can’t [...]