O Health Business Summit, maior encontro de empreendedorismo em saúde da América Latina, atingiu seu objetivo principal de trazer conteúdo e formar conexões com o ecossistema de empreendedorismo e inovação em saúde. Realizado nos dias 08 e 09 de Abril, em Belo Horizonte, pela Health Business Org em parceria com a Biominas Brasil, o evento […]
What can big data do for health care? And does it hold the same promise of new insights that it holds for other industries? A new Optum™ infographic shows what big data is and isn’t. And it shows that by making big data actionable, the result will be insights that improve patient care, reduce risk […]
In a new approach to reducing the scourge of hospital-acquired infections, a team of scientists has been testing thousands of microbe samples from a Chicago hospital to learn how a medical building might make patients sicker. Data from the three-year Hospital Microbiome Project are still being analyzed. So far the team has found factors including […]
2015 began with the publication of new rules in healthcare area that will contribute to the emergence of opportunities for industries in the sector and in the country as a whole. The enactment of Law No. 13,097, on January 19th, 2015, has brought more flexibility to ANVISA’s actions, so that these actions are directed to […]
I am in Vancouver this week attending the TED conference. I just gave a brief talk on a subject that I’ve been learning a lot about lately—epidemics. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a tragedy—as I write this, more than 10,000 people have died. I’ve been getting regular updates on the case counts through […]