DreamIt Health is a health tech accelerator that selects up to ten startups from around the world to take up residence in Baltimore, MD and achieve in four months what might otherwise take years. Attend the information session on November 6 to learn how you can be a part of the program that has launched 130 IT companies.
Nov 13, 2013 06:00pm
Join the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs and Women in Bio as we host a panel of life science leaders who will share insights from their experience commercializing technology. The discussion facilitated by Lynn Johnson Langer, PhD, MBA, Director, Enterprise & Regulatory Science Programs, Johns Hopkins University will cover:
With mHealth becoming the norm instead of the exception, a panel at Partners HealthCare’s 10th Annual Connected Health Symposium last week concluded that EHR vendors will have to find a way to modify their products to focus on data that the patient and his or her care team want, or they’ll become obsolete.
Important information for a patient’s care actually exists outside the electronic medical record, panelists said.
Cybersecurity companies in Montgomery County will be eligible for tax credits starting next year as part of the county’s mission to become a national hub for companies that sell cybersecurity products to the private sector.
The Washington region is emerging as a hotbed for the cybersecurity industry, in part because of its proximity to federal agencies, the military and government contractors.
The National Institutes of Health aims to boost healthcare technology and science through 15 Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards. Total amount of the awards is $79 million in 2013.
The awards will be used to help translate basic discoveries into new treatments that tangibly improve human health requires innovative collaborations and resources, as well as a diverse, highly-trained workforce,” NIH officials said in announcing the awards on Oct. 22.
Crowdfunding moved closer to becoming a reality for small businesses Wednesday morning when the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules that will govern how shares in small companies are sold through Internet intermediaries.
The SEC took only 50 minutes to unanimously approve the proposed rules, which were issued more than 560 days after the JOBS Act, the law that legalized the use of crowdfunding for equity investments, was signed by President Barack Obama.
Towson University is getting more serious about entrepreneurship on campus, and Frank Bonsal III will play a big role in that new focus.
Bonsal has served as interim director for TowsonGlobal, the university’s business incubator, since June. Earlier this month, he became the university’s first director of entreprene
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has launched shortest ever insulin syringe needle for the first time in Hyderabad. The needle is 25 per cent shorter than the contemporary needles available in the market.
BD, a leading global medical technology company, has launched BD Glide 6mm needle, the smallest ever insulin syringe needle developed with TBL technology for the first time in India. The needle has been designed to improve patient comfort. Compared to present needle size, 80 per cent patients have preferred this new needle.
The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore (EAGB) is pleased to announce Wes Moore as the keynote speaker at its Annual Meeting. The event will take place December 11, 2013 at the Hilton Baltimore. Year after year, this celebration attracts the region’s top leaders from industry, higher education and government.
Wes Moore, a Baltimore City native, is a youth advocate, Army combat veteran, social entrepreneur and host of Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Moore, a Johns Hopkins graduate, became nationally known after publishing The Other Wes Moore which became an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. It details the disparate life journeys of two boys from Maryland with the same name — one who went to prison and the other (the author) who forged a successful career.
For six years, green energy business Clean Currents made the Rockville Innovation Center above the downtown Rockville library its home.
The company enjoyed reduced costs for spaces and certain services than it would have had in the general private market. It had access to shared conference rooms, administrative help, a kitchen and copy machine, all pretty much financed by Montgomery County.
