As a child growing up in Ethiopia, John de Souza witnessed the grim reality of poverty — families wishing for rapid death for their sick children because a cure was out of reach socially and financially. Fast forward a number [See the full post…]

“If Amazon can personalize book recommendations, if we can get digital prescriptions of drugs nailed down with Walgreens, why can’t the two come together so that physicians can give personalized prescriptions for healthy eating?” wonders Dr. Jason Langheier, the CEO [See the full post…]

Announcing our 3rd edition of Tech Tonics, the Podcast. Today’s show features an interview with long-time digital health entrepreneur Michelle Snyder. Michelle is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Welltok, a company that works with health plans and other population health [See the full post…]

Lisa Maki’s unexpected journey took her from the outskirts of Puget Sound (where we discovered she grew up, in her words, a “Seattle Hillbilly”), to Silicon Valley. Today she is CEO of a company that helps people find profoundly useful [See the full post…]

Business Solutions for IT Managers: The introduction of a complete system and Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel processors has helped in the conversion of the Ludwik Rydygier Regional Hospital in Suwa?ki into a modern, competitive, and well managed medical facility.

Business Solutions for IT Managers: Huelva Hospital Complex identifies time and space saving benefits of Intel Core i5 processor-powered tablets for clinicians.

Researchers around the world are searching for ways to help seniors remain healthier and live independently in their homes for longer. Intel is working on new sensing devices that can feed data to a central hub that infers whether a [See the full post…]

Deals in health care M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of health care M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. [See the full post…]

Charles Ditkoff is managing director and co-head of the global healthcare services group with Banc of America Securities. In this podcast, from the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium hosted by The Deal in New York City, Ditkoff speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez [See the full post…]

Gnanesh Dholakia, senior product marketing manager at CA, and Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates, look at network management issues in the health care industry.

Venture capitalist Andy Kessler says silicon is going to do to the health care industry what it has done to portable devices and the Internet. Where will it start? With diagnostics, according to Kessler, who delivered the lunch keynote at [See the full post…]