By
AmyT on
March 18, 2010
I proudly present Samantha Katz as Exhibit A: the graduate student from Northwestern University who (along with project partner Erik Schickli) won last year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge Grand Prize, and was subsequently hired by Medtronic Diabetes to help design their next-generation insulin pumps. (See yesterday’s big Medtronic announcement.) Samantha is living proof that “crowdsourcing” exercises like this contest can shake Pharma’s big tree.
This year, Samantha is one of our expert judges for the 2010…
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By
AmyT on
March 11, 2010
As you all hopefully know, the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge is ON. We opened for entries last Monday.
I’m excited about community voting this year (y’all get to choose the competition finalists). I’m equally delighted to have such a wonderful panel of expert judges whose role will be to determine the winners from your list of Top 10 finalists.
A new face on our Judges’ Panel this year — but a familiar one around here…
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Those of you who follow me on twitter may know that I traveled to Washington DC late last week to take part in a “roundtable event” discussing paths to better diabetes care. Now, I’m no policy-maker, and certainly no expert on the crazy mixed-up reimbursement system in this country. I was there, again, to talk about what’s wrong with the way most diabetes patients are treated now, and what’s needed to make it better.
Once…
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More on the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge today —in part because I can’t think about much else this week
I almost forgot to mention the beautiful and very official contest fliers/posters we’ve prepared.
They’re available for downloading and distributing in PDF format here, as you like.
For interested universities and other organizations – we can also provide free printed color copies, delivered to your door. Send inquiries to info_at_diabetesmine.com.
And if you haven’t done so…
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By
AmyT on
February 23, 2010
To what degree is the state of our health really in our own hands? According to author Thomas Goetz, it very largely is. In his new book The Decision Tree, published last week, Thomas argues that since we live in a world where data on anything, including personal health, is abundant, all we need to do is feed this data into a personal flow chart that will aid us in making the right decisions.
He…
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