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medGadget MedTech Monday: Boston Scientific's John Abele on collaboration

November 2, 2009 by MassDevice

BSX co-founder John Abele's talk from the TEDMED conference in San Diego on his abiding interest in collaboration; "What to Expect When You're Expecting" on the iPhone; TomoTherapy releases the new TomoHD radiotherapy system; and ZocDoc goes to Washington.

medGadget MedTech Monday: Boston Scientific's John Abele on collaboration

BoSci's John Abele on collaboration: Our good friends over at MedGadget spent last week covering the annual TEDMED conference in San Diego and were able to catch Boston Scientific co-founder John Abele's talk on his abiding interest in fostering collaboration. Abele even bought a conference facility called the King Bridge Center to investigate his ideas on collaboration; namely, that medicine lacks the productive collaboration that drives other fields.

medGadget MedTech Monday: GE's Vscan pocket ultrasound

October 26, 2009 by MassDevice

At 3-by-5-by-1 in., General Electric's thumb-operated ultrasound device offers a color Doppler readout; a virtual autopsy table; ultra-high-resolution laparoscopy; and the annual TEDMED conference hits sunny Coronado Island.

medGadget MedTech Monday: GE's Vscan pocket ultrasound

GE releases pocket ultrasound: At 3-by-5-by-1 in., General Electric's thumb-operated Vscan offers a color Doppler readout and can store voice recordings. Although it's gotten the green light from the Food & Drug Administration and its counterpart in the European Union, GE plans to run a real-world clinician-use study before releasing it into the marketplace.

BIO International convention comes to Boston in 2012

September 28, 2009 by MassDevice staff

Organizers look to reprise the world's largest biotech conference's 2007 high-water mark, despite falling attendance numbers in recent years.

The BIO International Convention is on its way back to Boston, five years after its last visit to the Hub set all-time attendance records.

The conference attracted a record 22,366 visitors back in 2007, but attendance since then has dragged significantly, falling to 20,108 in San Diego in 2008 and to 14,352 this year in Atlanta, according to a BIO International spokesperson.

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Gaming health

June 23, 2009 by MassDevice

Are video games the next big over-the-counter medical device?

Zen Chu, Accelerated Medical Ventures

The largest healthcare institutions in America want to leverage game developers and entertainment to help patients and promote wellness.

That's one of the takeaways from the fifth year of the Games For Health conference.

A great collaboration

May 21, 2009 by MassDevice

Mass Life Sciences Center COO Melissa Walsh on how collaboration helps make the Bay State the world's leading life sciences cluster.

Melissa Walsh, COO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center

What a week it's been! We had many positive outcomes from the 2009 BIO International Conference, concluding today in Atlanta, including a great many business development conversations with companies and international delegations. Traffic at the Massachusetts Pavilion was consistently strong throughout the show, with strong interest in the Massachusetts supercluster and our Life Sciences Initiative.

Mass Life Sciences goes international at BIO 2009

May 20, 2009 by MassDevice

Luis Miguel Barros, senior vice president for investments and industry development, on why Massachusetts is a destination spot on the worldwide life science scene.

Luis Miguel Barros, senior vice president for investments and industry development, Mass Life Sciences Center

Susan Windham-Bannister checks in from BIO 2009

May 19, 2009 by MassDevice

The head of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center brings us the latest from the floor of the 2009 BIO International Conference in Atlanta.

Susan Windham-Bannister, president & CEO, Mass Life Sciences Center

Today The 2009 BIO International Convention got started in earnest with the opening of the exhibition floor and the kick-off plenary with Sir Elton John.

Elton John is best known as a musician but he is also the founder and chairman of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The foundation has raised more than $150 million to support HIV/AIDS prevention and service programs in 55 countries around the globe.