Health Innovation

We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called Valley of Death when seeking funding for their biotech start-ups. In Healthcare Finance, Andrew Lo and Shomesh Chaudhuri show that there are better ways to finance breakthrough therapies, and they provide the essential financial tools and concepts for creating the next generation of healthcare technologies.

The Fearless Organization offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent, but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate.

What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory, and offers examples on how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.

This audiobook is a practical guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas. Perhaps, the leader’s most challenging task is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction.

Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans' exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction. He provides an engaging account of recent advances in neuroscience that have shed light on the neural underpinnings of these profoundly important abilities. Jung examines key discoveries concerning the hippocampus and neural circuits that have demystified the processes underlying imagination and abstract thinking. He also considers how these capacities might have evolved as well as possible futures for intelligence.

Description Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the future of healthcare? "The Future of Medicine" is a comprehensive guide exploring the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the medical field. This pioneering eBook is your roadmap to understanding how technology is transforming the landscape of medicine, opening the possibility for advancements and improvements. Step into the first chapter and be ushered into a new era in healthcare, with a special focus on the emergence and influence of AI. Discover a brief but insightful history of AI, its terminologies, and the ...

⚡Unlock Your Energy: Transform Your Health with ‘The Good Energy & Metabolic Meals’. Inspired by Dr. Casey Means's innovative work in metabolic health, this guide offers a practical roadmap to transform your well-being through the power of food. What Makes This Book Unique? 🌟 Personal & Practical Perspective: Embark on a life-changing journey with recipes that heal, inspired by personal triumph over chronic illness. The author’s personal experiences and actionable strategies to boost energy, combat chronic fatigue, and manage health through nutrition will resonate with you, ...

Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools - or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the 19th century. Although he died at just 48, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative 20 years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it.

Unlock the Secrets to Success with the Power of Mental Models! What if you could solve complex problems, make better decisions, and navigate life’s challenges with ease? The answer lies in mastering mental models—the proven strategies that high achievers use every day. This book breaks down 30 essential mental models, giving you practical tools to think clearer, make smarter choices, and boost your overall effectiveness.Inside, You’ll Discover How To: Make Better Decisions: Learn the mental models that streamline your thought process, so you can make faster and more accurate decisions...

Unlock the future of animal care with Veterinary Innovations, the ultimate guide for anyone passionate about veterinary medicine. This groundbreaking eBook delves into the most cutting-edge advancements transforming the field today. Whether you're a veterinary professional, a student, or simply an animal lover, this book offers invaluable insights into the innovations driving the future of animal health. Starting with the foundations of regenerative medicine, discover the historical roots and modern trends shaping this revolutionary field. Dive deep into stem cell therapies, exploring the ...

The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of 10 short books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century. The focus is on what how the body down to the sub-cellular level reacts to its environment and how the mind can be intentionally used to affect the health through self-talk, imagery, meditation, and hypnotherapy.

Understanding that the psychological well-being of individuals is inextricably linked to the health of their communities, environments, and cultures, the authors propose a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to create participatory and dialogical spaces for critical understanding and creative restoration.

This provocative book reveals why sitting in front of a light box can increase your creativity more than listening to a Bach concerto as example. The author Shelley H. Carson, a Harvard psychologist, explains that creativity isn't something only scientists, investors, artists, writers, and musicians enjoy; in fact, all of us use our creative brains every day at home and at work. Each of us has the ability to increase our mental functioning and creativity by learning to move flexibly among several brain states.

The System Is Failing Patients. Will You Stand By and Watch? Every day, we see patients trapped in a system that was never designed to heal them. They’ve done everything the medical industry told them to do— They’ve taken the pain pills. They’ve tried injections that offered only temporary relief.Some have even gone under the knife—only to wake up in more pain than before. And now, they’re sitting in your office, desperate for an answer. The 60-year-old with crippling knee pain, told surgery is the only option. The young mom who just wanted relief—but got hooked on pain meds ...

Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can - only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we've taken solace in the notion that they can't create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines too?

Leadership is a set of abilities with which a lucky few are born. They're the natural relationship builders, master negotiators and persuaders, and agile and strategic thinkers. The good news for the rest of us is that those abilities can be developed. In The Leader's Brain: Enhance Your Leadership, Build Stronger Teams, Make Better Decisions, and Inspire Greater Innovation with Neuroscience, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative Director Michael Platt explains how.

An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation.

With the high cost of workplace accidents and injuries, collateral-additional duty safety specialists must be familiar with the safety programs that can prevent or control the hazards that cause them. Being familiar with these programs enables the safety specialist to act and lower the costs of injuries and property damage. The author has twenty years of experience in managing safety and occupational health programs. This book is a concise review of how to select, train, and support the collateral-additional duty safety specialists.