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Innocentive was spun out of another trailblazer on the healthcare front, Eli Lilly & Co., back in 2001 by two of the pharma’s former executives. Now, Lilly has its own Open Innovation Drug...
The beta launch of HealthBegins.org marks a major step forward in bridging the worlds of medicine and public health by using crowdsourcing and behavioral economics. With a user-friendly and...
In this segment, Albert Einstein College of Medicine's David Flores speaks with Kent Bottles, M.D., a noted speaker on the subject of social media and medicine and senior fellow at the...
Christopher Haskell, head of the U.S. Science Hub, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, said that he had to battle the corporate bureaucracy to get Bayer to agree to use crowdsourcing techniques to...
Now that “Create Your Mayo Clinic Health Experience” has formally launched to the public, the initial task will be in communicating to the public what the store is all about. What appeared to be...
medCrowd is a problem-solving tool for professionals working in healthcare to solve the problems they face at work. They have used deep customer insight to deploy a state of the art online...
Crowdsourcing, if implemented wisely, can be beneficial to nearly every aspect of society, argue two Dutch authors in a recently released TEDx talk. On stage in Louvain LaNeuve, Belgium, Tim Meuleman and Robert van Meer discuss the potential for crowdsourcing in healthcare, business, law, employment and so on.
The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media exists to improve health globally by accelerating effective application of social media tools throughout Mayo Clinic and spurring broader and deeper...
The Eatery is the perfect tool if you want to take real steps to improve your eating habits. Use The Eatery to snap photos of your food, then they’ll give you something much more helpful than...
With flu season in full swing many parts of the world, the folks at Sickweather hit on just the right time to launch their new website, which uses the crowdsourcing model to track the dreaded flu infection. The Sickweather team hopes that users will use this new software as a way to avoid catching flu this winter. We took a look at this new website to see what it’s all about.
Sickweather LLC, based in Baltimore, was co-founded and launched by three guys who grew up together in that area. They built the website as a way of getting a “perspective on when sickness bubbles up, where it travels and how it affects our lives.”
uTest, the crowdsourcing software testing company announces today that it has just raised a massive $17 million of funding – one of the largest investments made in a company based on a crowdsourcing model. The Series D funding round was led by QuestMark Partners with full participation from all of uTest’s previous investors, including Scale Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital and Mesco Ltd.
This latest round brings the company’s total funding to more than $37 million and uTest has seen its valuation more than double since its last round of funding in September of last year. Revenue has been increasing 250% year over year since 2008 and the customer base includes global brands such as Google, Microsoft, Groupon, AOL and the BBC as well as high-growth innovators like Trulia, Tapulous, Bump and Billguard.
Last week Transparency Life Sciences launched as the world’s first drug development company that is based on Open Innovation. Crowdsourcing.org takes a look at Open Innovation in the scientific community to see how this could work in the world of medicine.
Crowdsourcing is a way to quickly obtain feedback and direction from relevant online audiences about your campaign/communications challenge—think of crowdsourcing as a cross between a focus group...
Mona Lori Frisbie started OutOfPocket.com in 2007 as a crowdsourcing tool for patients. When few visitors posted the prices they paid for services, she supplemented it with Medicare data as well...
InCrowd, the only company providing real time healthcare market research, announced today that it has secured $2.2 million in Series A Funding led by Nauta Capital. InCrowd will use the Series A...
In this guest post, CrowdsUnite CEO and founder Alex Feldman predicts the shape and scope of the crowdfunding industry in the coming years.
It’s a blogosphere out there. And in trying to absorb all the talking-head commentary about the use of Facebook and Twitter in fomenting and organizing current Middle Eastern upheavals, at least Maureen Dowd’s column in The New York Times got something right:
We see instantaneous digital communication as a weapon against oppression and, in the hands of tyrants who tap into its power, as a weapon for oppression. 
A weapon. Wonder about “crowd-sourcing a revolution” is not only old tape, it turns the mechanism into the social and political solution. We have identified it as the means, the method of bringing disenfranchised or angry people together.
Everyday, people use Ushahidi’s tools to bridge information gaps in their communities, by doing things like mapping healthcare resources and monitoring disease outbreaks in Honduras and gauging...
Here are 5 essential elements an Open Innovation program: *Executive commitment:With a business model pivot,senior level endorsement,evangelism and resources are essential....
InCrowd has successfully created a technology platform that connects pharmaceutical, medical device and life science companies with Crowds of screened and targeted health care professionals. Unlike...
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