14 November 2018
For the 5th consecutive year, Directional Healthcare has supported young entrepreneurs in the Youth CITIES L3 Innovation Challenge, a collaborative effort with Boston Children’s Hospital and LabCentral, including the final presentations from student teams.
13 September 2018
Directional Healthcare presented at the Next Level Business Forum on the subject “Is Entrepreneurship a Career?” While career development can follow many paths, how does one get to be “an entrepreneur”? This talk reviewed definitions of an entrepreneur, what qualifies a person as an entrepreneur, and provided some case studies of how people get to be entrepreneurs.
5 December 2017
Directional Healthcare was invited to speak at the Medical Device Supplier Innovation Forum hosted by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. The subject of the talk was “The Impact of Supplier Innovation on the development of OEM Products and Services.”
15 Nov
ember 2017
The Youth CITIES L3 Innovation Challenge is a collaborative effort with Boston Children’s Hospital and LabCentral. The finale includes presentation of technical prototypes and findings presented to a panel of industry experts. The L3 Innovation Challenge takes advantage of the healthcare industry’s convergence of engineering, information technology, and life sciences for a unique, hands-on innovation hack for selected students. Roleplaying, as part of the Boston Children’s Hospital Innovation Team to address real-life complex problems, students work to address a challenge presented as part of the hospital’s approach to innovative solutions.
5 August 2017
Young Health Innovators Forum held its 2017 Boston competition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Directional Healthcare was part of the judging cohort, both for the initial screening and for the finalist selection. Twelve teams, selected from 62 applicants, pitched their projects to the judges and an audience. Nonspec, MobioSense, Z Imaging, and XenoTherapeutics were selected as the four US-based finalists to join four China finalists to compete at the 7th U.S.-China Health Summit in Beijing in September.
27 July 2017
The Hannah Grimes Center‘s quarterly Pitchfork event included the presentation of Farm to Pharma, a biotech incubator concept (Keene, NH). This facility will take a simple approach to building basic laboratory facilities to support individual researchers, entrepreneurs, and students in their interests to spin out new companies with the goal of making Keene a new center for biotech research and development.
9 June 2017
The 3rd Annual ComplianceOnline Medical Device Summit 2017 was held in Boston over 2 days and the agenda included our presentation on “Digital Health & Medical Devices”. The use of consumer versus regulated medical devices (Including wearable devices) was addressed, particularly in the context of regulatory requirements and market clearance.
30 March 2017
The Venture Café Foundation Life Sciences Unconference included a variety of topics of interest to entrepreneurs in the life science space. Talks included “Consumer Devices: Who Cares?” by Directional Healthcare, addressing the proliferation of wearable medical devices for use by consumers and included case studies on the use – and misuse – of these devices.
25 January 2017
The American Heart Association has published the 2017 statistics update on Heart Disease and Stroke. Cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death in the US. One of every 3 deaths is from cardiovascular disease, an average of 1 death every 40 seconds. Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined. The full report can be downloaded and read here.
20 October 2016
Directional Healthcare represented Cre8MDI, LLC at the 13th annual Partners Connected Health Symposium as a finalist in the Innovators Challenge. The presentation can be viewed here.