Tag Archives: health care

Can An Uber Investor Bring Silicon Valley Disruption To Healthcare?

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Several tweets today from Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley suggests that the legendary VC firm – famous for their backing of eBay, Uber, OpenTable, and Yelp, among others – may be preparing to...
    






Talk Outside the Box

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Our imaginations are limited by our experience; our routine; our habitual ways of working, thinking, and dreaming. This isn’t intended to be dispiriting news. But it is weighty news worth serious...
    






There’s Nothing New About AT&T’s Sponsored Data (And Why the FCC Won’t Ban It)

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler has been urged to investigate AT&T's new Sponsored Data offering, whereby customers can use certain internet services without dipping...
    






IBM’s Watson supercomputer gets its own business

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IBM "Jeopardy!" champ computer Watson gets its own business unit, NYC headquarters NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most famous "Jeopardy!" champs of all time is moving to Manhattan...
    






Can 2014 Be The Year Of Real Healthcare Innovation?

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Our body is a machine for living.  It is organized for that, it is its nature.  Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it bey encumbering it...
    






Does Obamacare Deserve Credit For Slowing The Growth In Health Care Spending?

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The annual report of from the actuaries over at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is out for 2012 and, for the fourth year running, the news is surprisingly good. Total healthcare...