Posts Tagged ‘Medical

Doctors in paradise

In: Forbes

13 Aug 2010

More American students enroll in Caribbean medical schools like St. George’s University….

When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible story of the climbers’ battle against extreme conditions and uses brain imaging technology to map the medical miracle of one man who survived roughly 36 hours buried [...]

Where you live It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it’s not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it “geo-medicine.”…

Best of breakout! 2009

In: Forbes

17 Jan 2010

Meet the entrepreneurs behind tomorrow’s most disruptive technologies….

How Patrick Soon-Shiong fights the world’s most difficult diseases….

Former Intel Chairman explains how lowering healthcare costs and better education will benefit corporate America….

Andy Jordan, on his cross-country American Journey in search of stimulus-related jobs and opportunities, meets a doctor in Cambridge, Ohio, who has made the painful and expensive switch from paper to electronic record-keeping…