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How CancerIQ’s “Genetics Clinic in a Box” is Revolutionizing Cancer Risk Screening for Community Healthcare Providers
The first light bulb went off on Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was 2012, and Feyi Olopade Ayodele was standing on the mythic African peak with her mother, Dr. Funmi Olopade, an award-winning cancer researcher from the University of Chicago. Feyi – who then focused on making early stage…
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How a Medical-device-rep-turned-entrepreneur is Trimming the Fat in Hospital Supply
As the shift to value-based care brings sea change to the healthcare industry and hospitals look to provide more value at lower cost, the iron is hot for healthtech innovators to strike and help hospitals cut their supply expense. Enter Mondopoint – a platform that puts hospitals in the driver’s seat with tool…
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Just as aircraft pilots go through a preflight checklist prior to takeoff, so, too, are surgeons expected to review the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist prior to a skin incision. The 19-item list of best pre-op practices developed by the World Health Organization, in association with the Harvard School of Public Health, is intended to prevent the occurrence of so-called “never events,” largely p…
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There are hundreds of instruments in an operating room, but a typical surgery only uses about 10% of them. Before every procedure, an OR nurse receives a “preference card” with instructions on how to support that particular surgeon and assemble the right tools. These cards are static, have limited detail, and can’t be referenced real-time during the surgery itself – which frequently contribut…
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It was fall 2014 orientation day at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Dane Guarino sat next to his fellow first-year, Lance Larsen, and struck up a conversation. They had both recently left the investment banking world and come to Booth for the same reason: to build a health tech company. Lance would soon become Dane’s co-founder of Markit Medical, an online marketplace wh…
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