Community voting closes tonight at 6pm Pacific for the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Don’t miss your chance to weigh in on this year’s amazing diabetes innovations. Click HERE to vote!
Then what happens? We will tally the votes, and determine our Top 10 finalists. Our full team of judges will have two weeks to carefully review these submissions and make their determinations. (Your votes will tell us who won the Kids and Most Creative categories,…
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AmyT on
April 30, 2010
The 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge closes for entries at midnight tonight! What? You didn’t expect me to post about anything else today, did you?
I’m afraid I can’t really think about anything else right about now. Too excited to see what happens when the clock strikes twelve… So at the risk of sounding repetitive — in hopes of avoiding any submission snafus — here are once again those tips for successfully submitting your entry:
Don’t forget to…
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AmyT on
April 22, 2010
A new addition to our DiabetesMine Design Challenge Judges’ Panel this year is John Steuart, Managing Director of Claremont Creek Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage information technology companies. John himself has spent the last 20 years building and investing in technology and life science companies, so you might say he knows his stuff.
Today, we spend a few minutes ‘picking this VC’s brain’ on mobile health solutions and other innovations…
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Actually, we have Veenu Aulakh to thank for putting the DiabetesMine Design Challenge on the map. She heard me give a keynote speech at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project HealthDesign event a few years ago, calling for more patient involved in medical device design, and it seems that a light bulb went on: the California HealthCare Foundation strives to foster better tools for patient self-management of chronic illnesses, so why not support a Crowdsourcing…
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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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