Marc Montserrat, Chief Business Officer of Deepcell, discusses his experience working in industrial engineering and his transition to joining Deepcell, a biotechnology company that combines AI, cell capture, and single-cell analysis. He discusses the impact that COVID has had on cell-isolation research and gives advice to undergraduates interested in biotechnology research.
Read MoreOptimizing quality, cost, and accessibility of healthcare may be a three-pronged scenario, but there remains room for improvement in both Australia and the US. Business Today spoke to Anjana Sreedhar, author of “Healthcare of a Thousand Slights”, and Charles Fedor, an economics student at the University of Western Australia, about perceived gaps and possible solutions for the Australian and American health insurance and healthcare spaces.
Read MoreAs regulation of private and public health coverage continues to be debated in the political arena, a comparison between Australian and American health systems illustrates the benefits and shortfalls of each. 2020 Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi speaks to Anjana Sreedhar, author of Healthcare of a Thousand Sights, about the unique problems faced by the Australian and American healthcare spaces.
Read MoreKatherine Ryder, Founder and CEO of Maven, explains telemedicine’s role in increasing access to healthcare while decreasing costs and how Maven’s virtual care and services are driving impact and change for women’s health. She also touches briefly upon the lack of female representation in VC and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreGwendolyn Lee, co-founder of Students vs Pandemics, discusses with Summer Journalism Fellow Millie Muroi her vision of bringing people with different perspectives together to tackle COVID-19 through innovative solutions, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and student leadership. Lee also shares her insights on the road ahead for healthcare, policy, and business in the coming decade and how students can actively contribute beyond the academic sphere through civic engagement and public service.
Read MoreAI is being used to streamline the healthcare industry, but concerns over data privacy beg the question of how HIPPA laws will shift the industry of health care innovation. On the flip side, obtaining data about patient treatment has the potential to empower an informed health care consumer to choose how they want to contribute to their own care. Whether we perceive the proposed technological advancements as helpful or overreaching will depend on the “doublespeak” marketing involved.
Read MoreBusiness Today speaks with Pat Wang, CEO of Healthfirst, which currently collaborates with more than 37,000 providers to provide health services to over 1.36 million New Yorkers. Wang elaborates on her efforts to bring medical access to lower-income and minority communities and the importance of improving medical records databases for accuracy.
Read MoreSenator Bernie Sanders has been one of the most vocal supporters of a single-payer Medicare plan, and he has not shied away from calling out the pharmaceutical industry for driving up drug prices. However, is his approach truly the panacea for the American healthcare crisis?
Read MoreStrata’s CEO, Dan Michelson, and his team members joined Business Today students at Strata’s Chicago office for a conversation surrounding the importance of data science on healthcare. The team at Strata helps unpack complexities in the healthcare system, so hospitals can improve and shift their policies.
Read MoreAmazon, J.P. Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway’s take on one of this generation’s biggest problems
Read MoreAnd yet despite these issues, Chinese mutual aid platforms are shaping up to be inspiring success stories. They certainly deserve our attention.
Read MoreWith its technological prowess and sense for revolutionizing industries, Amazon may be able to apply its powerful voice recognition products like Alexa, ruthless cost-cutting measures, and widely used cloud computing infrastructure to improve efficiency and service in the healthcare space.
Read MoreInterview with Michael Singer, CEO of BrainScope
Read MoreMartin Shkreli had a storied business history full of litigation and scandal.
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