Tom Caruso
I'm an entrepreneur interested in technology, particularly related to biomedicine and information. I'm building a Biomedical Informatics Think Tank (tm) that you can find out about it on the Facebook page about it at and on my blog. You can find more about me on my LinkedIn profile at
Red Hat's ripple effect on local economy goes beyond jobs - Triangle Business Journal. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh.
Some of Raleigh's biggest technology players - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS), Ipreo, Bandwidth, Allscripts and LexisNexis - have a huge ripple effect on entrepreneurship. It’s not a surprise that the high number of tech jobs downtown at giants such as Red Hat and Citrix boosts the economy, but tracing that ripple effect is slightly mind-blowing. On Monday I had a conversation with Derrick Minor, the City of Raleigh's chief innovation and entrepreneurship manager, who is convinced that having these companies doesn’t just bring jobs - it brings startups. “One of the things in looking at various startups that are already here is looking at, what is their origin?” He explains. But large companies are another trigger for entrepreneurship. Think about it: Red Hat spawns Lulu which spawns Spoonflower and New Mind Education. And that’s just off the top of his head. Have any other good examples of a startup’s family tree?
Health 2.0 Attempts to Understand the ePatient of the Future. Get a peek at the 6 best TEDMED 2013 talks (video) TEDMED 2013 wraps up today.
When it was at its best, TEDMED included a series of gut-wrenching patient stories, blunt challenges to the orthodoxy of the profit margins of non-profit hospitals, and discussions on how medicine looks at patients and itself. It was very much a 2.0 version of last year’s TEDMED (2012 was owner Jay Walker’s first try at his vision of a Davos of Healthcare in the nation’s capital). This year has a different feel. “The Hive,” which is the organization’s vendor and expo area, is peppered with early-stage startup companies along with some of healthcare’s biggest players.
On stage, there was everything from the weird – health guru Richard Simmons wins that description in spades – to the aggressive: athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush gave the conference a new dimension by challenging many in healthcare (even some of his customers). Many of TEDMED’s talks will be shared online later. “Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?” Copyright 2014 MedCity News. mHealth-As-A-Service Could Change Mobile Health. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) when it comes to cloud computing is often talked about, but what about mobile healthcare-as-a-service (mHaaS)?
In a recent article, written by John Sung Kim, CEO of San Francisco based DoctorBase.com and published in PhysBizTech, the case is made that mHealth apps for medical provider organizations will soon evolve into app platforms whose functions can be ‘rented’ as a cloud-based service instead of building them as ‘one-off’ IT projects. Sung Kim goes on to say that mHaaS is the only way the mHealth industry will grow. Sung Kim, who runs a mobile healthcare 2.0 company, believes the benefit of mHaaS is that it significantly decreases the costs and risks for medical provider organizations. Sung Kim says that mHaaS is an obvious pathway for mHealth provision.
All one has to do is look at the cost and pricing structure of mHaaS versus building them internally as standalone apps, he says. Www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00286ED1V01Y201002HCI010.
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