Category: Forbes

How To Fix Pharma’s Innovation Crisis (Part 2)

Multi-national pharma is optimized for late-stage clinical research and international marketing. As a result, discovery has become the limiting factor in productivity. The industry needs a business model, a road map, that would enable it to operate eff…

You Just Measured Employee Engagement. Now What?

The employee engagement survey is just the first step in a long-term practice of building and supporting engagement because measuring employee engagement is not the same thing as engaging employees.

The Startup Founder Bringing Honest And Inclusive Sex Education To Young Adults

When it comes to sex the policy “don’t ask, don’t tell” still reigns, even though sexual health concerns are common and carry a lot of anxiety and isolation. Mia Davis decided to create a space to make conversations about sex approachable, and give peo…

How To Really Take Medical Conflicts Of Interest Seriously

If we’re going to have a central database of conflict of interest disclosures in medicine – and there is one, created by law – it’s high time that people start using it.

Cyber Apocalypse Now – How Bad? What To Do

Countries and companies are vulnerable to digital attacks of all shapes and sizes. Both have failed to invest nearly enough in prevention and recovery. Digital treats are wide, deep and expanding: the number of bad digital actors is rapidly growing. It…

Marijuana Bill Scheduled For Congressional Vote This Week

The House Judiciary Committee is expected to approve legislation to license more growers of cannabis to be used in scientific research.

More Signs Trump’s Medicaid Work Rules Add To Health Costs

Medicaid work requirements add to health costs and adding layers of administrative expenses, a package of research published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine shows.

Severe Complications Rise Sharply Among Women Giving Birth in Hospitals

According to a report just released by AHRQ, the proportion of women who experienced serious complications while giving birth in U.S. hospitals rose 45% between 2006 and 2015. And the data are even worse for low-income and minority women, especially bl…

These Are The Disruptive Technologies That Will Affect Your Industry

These are the technologies that are coming to disrupt your industries. Some don’t exist yet but all are plausible. You should be worried…and inspired.

A Co-Design Approach To Treatment Advances Individuality In Healthcare

Determining the outcome of an individual’s life is to ask that individual to co-design his or her own treatment. Healthcare must evolve to inclusion and individuality. It’s a matter of life and death and places a significant strain on the U.S. econo…