We tend to assume that the big companies making glucose monitoring products do nothing but sit around thinking about how they can sell more product. You can’t blame us; it sure looks that way from the outside. But late last week I was privileged to get an inside view of some of the real innovation going on behind closed doors.
I was invited to visit Roche’s New Concept Incubator, a small “think tank” of about…
We are positively blown away: in the (nearly) final analysis, we’ve logged over 130 entries in the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. There goes my weekend…
Seriously, I want to thank each and every individual who helped with this project — including everyone who sent us their hard-won innovative concepts for improving life with this illness. This is crowdsourcing at its very best, so THANK YOU!
And now back to reviewing entries… Oh, and you can…
Today is the final day to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. You have until 11:59pm Pacific time to submit your brilliant idea for a new device or web tool to make life with diabetes better.
We have a great batch of tantalizing new concepts coming in…
See the video entries to date here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/DBMine2009Contest
and the
paper entries to date here:
http://www.scribd.com/group/71420-2009-diabetesmine-design-challenge
ENTER THE CONTEST here.
Meet our judges by reading their interviews…
Second in our series of getting to know the judges of this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, please say hello to Ross Jaffe, MD, a board-certified internist and eminent venture capitalist with Versant Ventures in Silicon Valley, CA. His job is to lead investments in medical devices, drug delivery, and healthcare information systems companies. He was a founding investor behind TheraSense and Insulet Corp. (the OmniPod company), so he knows a thing or two about innovation…
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On Wednesday of this week, I was privileged to attend the Project HealthDesign Expo in Washington, DC. Not only to attend, but I was invited to deliver the lunchtime keynote address. It was an amazing experience to stand up in front of 200 health experts from industry, government, academia and advocacy organizations and talk about living with diabetes.
What I told them essentially was what I believe advancements in medicine and medical technology mean to…