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Walter De Brouwer
Time "serial entrepeneur", The Sunday Times "collateral thinker", Financial Times "Ubernerd". Walter De Brouwer is Involved in 2 international IPO’s (Stepstone [LSE: sso], Eunet-Qwest [nyse:Q]).
Why Doctors Need to Embrace Their Digital Future Now | Magazine
Medicine has certainly progressed in the past 50 years, but the day when tricorders diagnose every ailment instantly and treatments are tailored to our DNA seems as far off as ever. Eric Topol is trying to bridge that gap. In his new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine , Topol—the chief academic officer at Scripps Health—calls on patients to demand true digital medicine now.
The ethics of brain boosting - University of Oxford
The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to consider the issues the new technology could raise.Every year, the biggest ideas in health care are presented at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference in Rochester, Minnesota.
The Five Biggest Ideas On The Future Of Health Care Design | Co.Design
The center's research and development origins trace back almost a decade — to Mayo's early SPARC Innovation Program (See-Plan-Act-Refine-Communicate).
Clinic Center for Innovation: The Center for Innovation
Over the last 15 years, nine Maggie’s Centres have sprung up around the U.K. to support people affected by cancer. Rather than administering medical treatment, these facilities provide comforting environments for those coping emotionally and psychologically with the disease, and their unique approach is matched by their commitment to innovative architecture.
Snøhetta To Build A Cutting-Edge Cancer Clinic, For Healing With Humanity | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology - NYTimes.com
The answer is yes at the New York University School of Medicine , which is using 3-D technology to update a rite of passage for would-be doctors: anatomy class. In a basement lab at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan last month, students in scrubs and surgical gloves hovered over cadavers on gurneys, preparing, as would-be doctors have for centuries, to separate rib cages and examine organs.