How workflow, IT integration, and reimbursement gaps stall promising devices—and what to do about it In 2011, when the early AI engine IBM Watson won a three-game exhibition tournament of Jeopardy, besting two human contestants who were widely considered to be the greatest ever to play the game, it was considered a real breakthrough for […]

Healthcare collects more data than any industry on earth. Most of it never gets used. Here’s why that paradox persists, and what has to change. Healthcare data is growing at 36% annually, faster than financial services, faster than media. Yet the majority of what gets collected sits idle, generating cost and complexity without generating insight. […]

The Hippocratic Oath and its famous dictum, “First, do no harm” (primum non nocere), have been part of the medical world for centuries, a telling sign of medicine’s long-standing commitment to prioritizing the welfare of the patient.  But what it meant to “first, do no harm” back in the day when care was dictated almost […]

In emergency medicine, minutes matter. But behind every “rapid response” clinical innovation is years of disciplined systems thinking, engineering rigor, and regulatory foresight. One of the most complex challenges facing trauma care today isn’t treatment, it’s access. Plasma, a critical component in emergency transfusions, has traditionally been constrained by freezing, storage, transport logistics, and slow […]