The long awaited break to end the pandemic phase of COVID-19 pandemic we all await continues to elude us despite many breakthrough control tools and measures. In times like these when participation of everyone is needed, succinct and clear messaging is a key – and we dedicate this post to applaud one powerful and succinct statement.
Continue reading COVID-19: Applauding a powerful messaging that serves as call to action
While we await the end of the pandemic phase of COVID-19 and to begin the new normal, we recognize the rapid development and deployment of vaccines as one of the biggest success of science, technology, regulatory flexibility. That and the rapid and effective role played by governments in many parts of the world as highlights of what we as a society can do to rise to serious challenges. These accomplishments would have been decade long process in the past or minimally a multi-year process.
As with the other posts of ‘HiBrow Perspectives’ – we highlight salient and some not obvious aspects of some of these huge successes in biomedical and technological innovations, business strategy, regulatory and governance aspects that have impacted the society positively in major ways as well as some stark disappointments.
Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccines: Hits, Misses, Mandates and Charting the Post-pandemic Normal
Masks, do they protect me directly if I wear? Why should I wear them if it protects others and not me? Here I present a line of reasoning for masks being protective to the person who wears it and relate it to a rapid acting equivalent of vehicle seat belts. I hope the message in this blog aids change in mindset and practice, and together with other developments in place now help us create ‘The Moment’ to hold current state of the COVID-19 pandemic as its worst and help move to build a better future faster.
Continue reading Crushing COVID-19: Masks, Messaging and Creating the Moment
Yes, you guessed it right.. we are talking about the Andy Grove who left an indelible legacy through his role at the Intel corporation (together with the other two founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore) including as CEO for a decade, fueling the growth of Silicon Valley and the world at large. Now we got that cleared, we need to introduce some background on what is called the ‘Andy Grove Fallacy’ in a commentary in 2007.
Continue reading Did Andy Grove Leave a Fallacy for Life Sciences and Healthcare?
In exciting news this week Waymo™ the driverless car arm of Alphabet™ (the parent company of Google) launched its fully self-driving taxi service ‘Waymo One’ in Phoenix, Arizona. There is one catch though; the self-driving taxis each have a driver in them. What can we infer from this artificial intelligence (AI) enabled initiative and other offerings from the Alphabet conglomerate? Continue reading How does AI, Waymo self-driving taxi launch and Google indicate room for another search engine?
I read this excellent post The Irrational Rationing of Health Care on LinkedIn by David Katz, that documents a case of denial of a treatment option to a patient because the payer considers that ‘not established as standard therapy for that cancer’ – as documented in their business criteria. As you would have guessed that the treatment option is a reasonably expensive one. This is an excellent article and an exemplary case for what I elaborate in previous blogs http://bit.ly/ACOSteadyState and http://bit.ly/sustainablehealthcare .
Continue reading How do we prevent denial of available and deserved therapeutic options to patients?
The above title can be re-framed as: How to always be working on the hottest themes throughout your life?
Warning: this is an exercise in trying to convey a seemingly abstract concept in completely abstract terms.
I happened to be in a meeting recently where panelists with a variety of backgrounds were discussing a red hot emerging theme – across the spectrum: from research until creating markets that don’t currently exist. Continue reading Adaptive social fitness – in all its abstractness
Do you know one of the advantages of being an engineer turned biotechnologist turned entrepreneur/capitalist? You can write a blog like the one below.
A few months ago, I was in an event that discussed approaches and challenges in tackling Ebola, organized by the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.
This post is a complement and response to the post by Michael Greeley entitled ‘Bet the Jockey…Bet the Horse…and Bet the Track’ (hyperlinked).
Michael Greeley is one of the nicest people I have met in the investment sector. The above well-written blog post is a ‘must read’. Continue reading Leading Healthcare to a Better and Sustainable Future
In the recent nine months we have been reading about the impact of sequestration on various aspects of life – from defense spending to basic biomedical research. Some articles highlight dramatic consequences. I write this from the region of the USA (Boston/Cambridge area) that attracts the most amount of research funding from governmental sources per capita.
Continue reading Why I am indifferent to the effects of sequestration on research funding
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