There’s a tendency to overlook the fact that human health and animal health are closely intertwined. As an Ethnozoology published paper put it, “we share hundreds of diseases with animals, and they are vectors for many diseases that afflict humans, but at the same time they are essential to many treatments and cures.” While we…
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Building Together: The Co-Founder Experience at Kilo Health
With a portfolio of more than 30 in-house and invested products and over 5 million happy customers, Kilo Health offers unrivaled opportunities for budding entrepreneurs to make their mark on the digital health and wellness scene. One of these opportunities is their unique Co-found Program, an initiative that helps to launch and scale new business…
What Financial Engineering Does to Hospitals
Riverton, Wyoming, a city of about 11,000 people at the feet of the Wind River mountain range, seems far away from the world of Big Finance. Yet like so much of America, Riverton has become well acquainted with the business that most epitomizes today’s Wall Street: private equity. In 2018, the local hospital, SageWest, was…
Oregon Officials And Drug Policy Advocates Return From Portugal Trip With Fresh …
A delegation of more than two dozen Oregon officials and advocates returned this past weekend from a trip to Portugal, where they studied the country’s health-focused response to substance abuse disorders. The visit comes on the third anniversary of Oregon voters’ passage of Measure 110, which decriminalized all drugs in the state and funneled millions…
The Patient Co. prepares to bring SimPull device to market
An idea that started with a sketch on a napkin is headed into the marketplace, offering hospitals a new way to move patients and reduce the risk for nurses and other caregivers. Backed by a $3.3 million recent capital raise, Grand Rapids-based The Patient Co. expects to begin fulfilling orders for the SimPull device in…
HEALTH-CARE INNOVATION: Turning good ideas into devices that help
Breadcrumb Trail Links Ottawa Get the latest from Elizabeth Payne straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Nov 08, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read CHEO surgeon Dr. Matthew Bromwich has invented medical devices. Photo by Jean Levac /Postmedia Article content In 2005, ear, nose and throat surgeon Dr. Matthew Bromwich…
More doctors should go into digital health startups
In my decade living in Silicon Valley as a digital health journalist and now an investor, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people in the tech industry claim that doctors don’t have what it takes for a career in entrepreneurship. As the traditional thinking goes, because they’re so risk-averse and lack business…
‘Bare Minimum Monday’ highlights burnout at work. Should you try it?
TikTok trends don’t lie: Whether they’re “quiet quitting” or adopting “Bare Minimum Monday” to combat the “Sunday scaries,” people are pulling back at work. In one sense, making work a smaller part of life is a permanent shift that people working from home experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Cristina Banks, an industrial and organizational…