Medical Device Entrepreneurship Association at Northwestern University. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NUMDEA
The purposes of the The Medical Device Entrepreneurship Association (MDEA) are:
1) Education – to provide educational structures to help undergraduate and graduate students engage in the medical device company development process
2) Networking– to provide a suitable networking environment for student medical device entrepreneurs
3) Mentorship– to provide support and mentorship to students wishing
[Medical Device] Spintronic Applications
A New Spin on Magnetic Sensors for Medical Devices | MDDI Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry... NANOTECHNOLOGY Quantum mechanics states that electrons have two stable spins—up and down. With the advent of nanoscale fabrication methods, device companies are harnessing this knowledge to create devices. The technology, known as spintronics, has already been used to increase the storage density of…
02/08/2014
[mHealth] "A growing posse of entrepreneurs think the big money is to be made in the second category, of apps and devices that seek to transform the way health care is delivered. Large companies spy an opportunity here too. "
Health and appiness WHEN Kenneth Treleani was told last summer that he was suffering from high blood pressure, his doctor prescribed medicine to tackle the condition. He also made...
02/04/2014
[RPM] Challenges for remote patient monitoring
Trend Report: Remote Monitoring Technology Continues to Be Adopted Though Questions Remain About... A new report reveals that while remote patient monitoring technology continues to be adopted, healthcare providers, especially ACOs, have real questions about the clinical efficacy and the return on investments of this technology.
02/03/2014
[5 Startups Poised to Change MedTech Forever ] Three of them are Wireless-sensing Technology. What do you think?
5 Startups Poised to Change MedTech Forever (video and slideshow) | MDDI Medical Device and... These are exciting, uncertain times in healthcare and especially, medtech. All the old assumptions, structures and cultures need to reconfigured as new technologies, new customer demands and new economic realities are shifting the ground beneath the medtech industry’s collective (and, dare I say) st...
02/03/2014
[eCorner] Entrepreneurial Talk by Stanford
Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Mark Pincus, Zynga - Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins Caufield &... Mark Pincus, CEO and Founder of gaming company Zynga, encourages fast and frequent new ideas for video game development. But rather than putting forth tremendous resources to build out each idea, they company first tests its viability with a round of "ghetto testing" - five words that will be used t...
[Entrepreneur] Steve Blank, prestigious Entrepreneur Coach. In 2013 Forbes listed as one of the 30 most influential in Tech.
Victory From Adversity Sometimes what sounds like bad news when talking to customers might be your finest hour. Hypothesis Testing As we started E.piphany, we got out of the building to test our hypotheses by talking to ...
12/27/2013
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[The Entrepreneur Magazine] "Amid all the strangeness, entrepreneurs continued to boldly innovate, disrupt and create jobs, despite fierce political and economic roadblocks The events of this year and the sheer volume of new ideas prove that no matter how hostile the business environment, entrepreneurs will always rethink the status quo - zigging when everyone is zagging, roadblocks be damned." Amy C Cosper, Editor in Chief
12/23/2013
[Big Think] George C. Halvorson is chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, headquartered in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan and hospital system, serving more than 8.6 million members and generating $40 billion in annual revenue.
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12/20/2013
[EMDT] Design Rationale and Medical Devices
Design Rationale and Medical Devices: Why Is it Designed and Manufactured the Way it Is? | EMDT... During the development of a medical device, designers and engineers frequently need to make decisions relating to how a design meets the specified requirements.
12/19/2013
[MDDI] Patient-Consumer Expectations: Redefining Medtech Innovation
Patient-Consumer Expectations: Redefining Medtech Innovation | MDDI Medical Device and... I know medical devices. And I had opinions about which device might be best for my daughter when her sports injury required a surgical pin. But the choice of pin had little to do with what I hoped and expeced for my child—to be able to play volleyball again, to dance, to live a normal life.
12/17/2013
[Hopkins] Biosensor Could Help Detect Brain Injuries During Heart Surgery
Biosensor Could Help Detect Brain Injuries During Heart Surgery « News from The Johns Hopkins... Johns Hopkins University