We like to think that our events at Aging2.0 NYC are pretty well put together, but Jewish Home Lifecare have just raised the bar. Their first Himan Brown Symposium on Advances in Senior Health brought together some serious heavyweights to tackle the future of healthcare, smooth organization and an incredible venue – the shiny new Alexandria Center, [...]
[This post is from Aging2.0 team member Wen Dombrowski, MD] The first ever Health 2.0 Chicago Local conference was held this past weekend. It brought together entrepreneurs, clinicians, technologists, and investors to foster health tech innovation in the Midwest and beyond. One of the recurring themes I heard was the importance of entrepreneurs having first hand [...]
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[This is a guest post by Ryan Frederick, founder and Principal of Point Forward Solutions, a strategic consulting and financial advisory firm dedicated to Seniors Housing & Care and related Health Care Services industries. Prior to founding Point Forward Solutions, Ryan was Senior Vice President at Erickson Living. Ryan can be reached at rfrederick@pointforwardsol.com and @ryanefrederick.] This past week San Francisco [...]
[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0 (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]
Pfizer has made a bold marketing move with a glitzy site called GetOld that talks about, er, getting old. This is presumably one of a string of deliverables that are the result of the company reportedly making aging one of its top strategic priorities. I like a number of things about it: They’re taking the initiative. [...]
Source: AP/Charles Dharapak. This feels like a day to remember. In a surprising decision, the Supreme Court managed to steer between a rock and a hardplace, giving the greenlight to Obamacare. By calling it a tax they made the Dems happy that very little was struck down, and the Republicans happy (ish) that they have [...]
Wen and I are in DC participating in the Healthca.mp DC session at Kaiser Permanente. The unconference is an excellent concept – a group of interesting people with session and an agenda that is created organically – and this version applied to healthcare, pioneered by Mark Scrimshire, works particularly well. Regina Holliday presenting at Healthca.mp [...]
Source: Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Spotted in Springwise, what seems like a fairly extreme solution; this new concept electrocutes patients every few minutes to stop them having pressure ulcers. Humorous imagery aside, pressure ulcers and bed sores are a huge issue for long term care, so this alternative approach with its cute name - which [...]
