BY KIM BELLARD I’ve given DNA a lot of love over the years — DNA as a storage medium, as a computing platform, as the basis for robots, as the tool for synthetic biology/biohacking, even used for the DNA-of-Things (DoT). DNA is the basis for all life as we […]
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By KIM BELLARD Not familiar with Schumpeter’s gale? You may be more familiar with the term “creative destruction.” Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is the inevitable “process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” We […]
By KIM BELLARD I recently watched some of the recent Congressional hearings on cryptocurrency, and, boy, if there’s anything funnier than watching experts try to educate most members of Congress on anything crypto-related, it’s probably me trying to explain it. I don’t own any digital assets, still don’t see the […]
By KIM BELLARD General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently expressed grave concern about China’s reported test of a hypersonic missile: “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it’s very close to that. It has all of our attention.” Maybe […]
By KIM BELLARD You know we’re living in the 21st century when people are 3D printing chicken and cooking it with lasers. They had me at “3D printing chicken.” An article in NPJ Science of Food explains how scientists combined additive manufacturing (a.k.a, 3D printing) of food with “precision […]
By HANS DUVEFELT IT GUY: Hey, Doc, don’t make up workarounds, use the EHR the way it was designed. DOCTOR: Listen, your whole EHR is a workaround itself – around the way medicine is practiced. – Hans Duvefelt, MD This was a tweet I posted a while ago. I expected […]
By MIKE MAGEE “People might not treat you the right way or they may stare at you. But the way that you treat people is going to go way further than anything else.” Carson Pickett, NWSL/Orlando Pride/NC Courage In the summer of 2017, Colleen and Miles Tidd were told that […]
By KIM BELLARD When I think of elevator operators, I think of health care. Now, it’s not likely that many people think about elevator operators very often, if ever. Many have probably never seen an elevator operator. The idea of a uniformed person standing all day in an elevator pushing […]
By MATTHEW HOLT & JESS DAMASSA Last month we told you about the new conference bringing together the CEOs of the next generation of virtual & real-life care delivery and all the permutations thereof. That’s all those companies raising huge venture rounds and really getting to scale. You’ll see them […]
By MATTHEW HOLT I recently interviewed Subha Airan-Javia, the CEO of CareAlign. CareAlign is a small company that is working to fix the clinician workflow by creating a tool for all those interstitial gaps that the big EMRs leave, and now get moved to and from paper by the care […]