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Meet MedCrunch At Innovations & Investments In Healthcare 2012, Berlin, April 26/27, 2012
It seems as if Europe is slowly but surely moving forward when it comes to digital health 2.0 – both in terms of startups and events. As a Europe-based media outlet, with a strong readership in the US though, we are happy to be able to support some great people out there, who are also aiming to disrupt healthcare in terms of a media partnership with there and have a chance to support events as media partners. When the masses will be gathering at Germany’s largest fair for healthcare IT – the ConhIT – the conaisseurs will be gathering in Berlin, Europe’s (rightly) self proclaimed hub for tech entrepreneurs. Miles away from boring panel discussions, there will be an ecclectic mix of people, who meet at the so-called Innovations & Investments in Healthcare Summit in Berlin, from April 26 – 27 2012 (It’s great to see people like Halle Tecco, CEO of Rock Health or Sutha Kamal, Co-Founder of Massive Health coming all the way to Berlin and discuss with some industry experts twice their age. It looks like the event is going to be very diverse, not only in terms of the program, but also in terms of attendees – […]
MedCrunch ‘Combined’ Interview with Jacob Scott and Sandeep Kishore at TEDMED 2012
At TEDMED we also had a a very interesting conversation with Jacob Scott (watch Jacob’s TEDMED talk) whose impressive background was strong enough to throw us out of concentration a couple of times. But behind all this great history there is a very simple and cool guy who we befriended along the conference social gatherings and with whom we hope to stay in touch. We spoke mainly about how med school need to change and we were surprised when later on fellow speaker Sandeep Kishore (watch Sandeep’s TEDMED talk) echoed the same feelings and thoughts about who is educating our future physicians. “Sunny” also was one of our favorite guys from TEDMED, he already added me to his Young Professional Chronic Disease Network (YPCDN) and we will definitely do anything in our power to help. Giving the fact that these two similarly made such an influence on us and on the crowd –and based on their common ideas– we decided to ask them the same questions. MC: You argue that the system selects the least creative candidates for medical school. What is the reason for this? Jacob: Not necessarily the least creative. It’s not selecting for creative people and I think that the more […]
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