10Nov/100
Interview with Steve Perrin – CEO of ALS-TDI – an innovative non-profit biotech
I got the opportunity to chat this week with Steve Perrin, CEO of the ALS Therapy Development (TDI) Institute in Cambridge, MA. This was started in 1999 by Jamie Heyward after his brother developed the disease. Jamie gave an inspiring talk at TEDMED last year about how he set that up (and another site that is the poster child [...]
4Nov/100
Telemedicine could save the US $4bn annually
It must be true because it says so in a press release. This one in fact, from the folks at United Healthcare. Who knows, but still a nice data point: The University of Texas Medical Branch estimates that widespread implementation of telemedicine, for example, could save the U.S. health system more than $4 billion annually, and improve [...]
