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GSB Summit Explores Health Care Innovations
What if asthma sufferers carried inhalers hooked up to global positioning devices? Data on where and when the inhalers were used could then arm health care officials with greater information on the location of asthma threats in a community.
This was just one of the health care technologies that a team of graduate students presented to a panel of government regulators and venture capital investors during the 2011 Graduate School of Business Health Care Summit, sponsored by the school's Program for Health Care Innovation.
The panelists provided advice for commercializing some of the technologies and insight into how policy could severely inhibit development of others.
Dubbed "DC2VC," the one-hour session supported what featured health care summit speaker Todd Park called a new generation of medical "rock stars" who are blending cutting-edge technology with reams of old-fashioned data to help drive innovation. Park is chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The day-long summit at the Knight Management Center also included dozens of other speakers and panels on medical technology, business, policy, and delivery around the globe.