By
MikeH on
October 4, 2012
One particular moment doesn’t stand out about the MedicineX conference at Stanford University this past week. Instead, it was all of the moments!
What I keep coming back to in my mind is the recurring theme of this event: that the voice of the patient is incredibly meaningful, and should be a part of the healthcare process, from beginning to end.
That, IMHO, is was what the three-day MedX conference was all about. A few…
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By
AmyT on
August 14, 2012
This is the third in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the 2012 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were announced back in June. This winner brings with her not only great innovation ideas for diabetes devices, but a unique perspective from the Pacific Islander minority community that’s so affected by type 2.
Ivoni Nash, who lives in Utah, tells us what it’s like for those in this minority community, and how diabetes technology might…
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Hi All,
Please spread the word today: It’s your last chance to vote in the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Polls close tonight at 6pm Pacific time.
We want to congratulate each of our finalists! From 95 entries this year, our judging team narrowed the field to 20 designs in the Grand Prize category, four as “Most Creative” favorites, and three top contenders in the Kids’ category.
As a reminder:
Your votes will determine the winners…
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By
AmyT on
October 13, 2010
Happily, Harvard University appears to have jumped on the diabetes innovation bandwagon recently, with a crowdsourcing experiment called the Harvard Catalyst InnoCentive Ideation Challenge, in which Harvard president Dan Faust sent out a call to the great minds around this legendary university for creative answers to the question: “What do we not know to cure type 1 diabetes?”
Well, there are certainly plenty of answers to that question!
However, as it turns out, the main…
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