Location - Boston, MA

Website - www.ovascience.com

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The Harvard Business School Healthcare Club & Healthcare Initiative are holding a series of free events with leading HBS faculty members to provide the healthcare community with a well-rounded perspective on the challenges and potential solutions for US Healthcare.

The next event is February 8, 2012, when Professor Clay Christensen will be discussing his views on how to improve various aspects of healthcare. No registration necessary.

For those of you who will not be in Boston on Feb 8th, the event will be filmed and posted on the Healthcare Initiative website. Please contact the HBS Healthcare Initiative with any questions and to be notified when the video is available.

Limited parking available for $12 (see Visitor & Permit Parking Lot). Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to allow for parking and seating.

Blueprint Health is a TechStars affiliated startup accelerator program based in NYC that helps early stage healthcare companies get started.  Over the course of a 3 month program, Blueprint will provide support to entrepreneurs who are building innovative companies at the intersection of health and technology by providing $20,000 of seed capital, a shared work environment, and most critically, access to a broad range of mentors with deep healthcare, start-up and technology experience to support and to provide guidance to the teams.

What type of applicants does Blueprint look for? First and foremost, smart, passionate and coachable entrepreneurs!  Especially since this is early stage, it is very much about the people/team, the problem they are trying to solve and surrounding them with the right resources. Beyond that, Blueprint looks for health, healthcare, and wellness companies, typically with an information technology aspect (pharma and devices are not within the investment purview). Examples may include companies that improve communication in hospitals, help people improve their lifestyles, marketing tools for providers and plans, clinical decision support tools, health education, and tools to aggregate and analyze healthcare data to save money or for innovation discovery.

Interested in applying? The deadline to apply for the Winter program is November 13.  For more information and to apply, check out www.BlueprintHealth.org

As a disclosure, Christopher Tsai, Co-Founder of careinnovators, has joined Blueprint Health as a mentor.

Only 1 day to register for Health IT UX and Design!

For 50% off, use the link below

- Wayne Pan, Health Access Solutions, will talk about HIT, the importance of design, and his West Coast perspective
- Yumin Choi, HLM Ventures, will show examples of improvement in process as well as product design
- Richard Banfield, Fresh Tilled Soil, will host a design educational session
* Unfortunately Sachin Jain will be not able to join us.  In his place, we’ll have a great keynote from investor Yumin Choi and an interactive panel session with the speakers.

As an early stage start-up, it’s not always easy to find an established firm willing to test the new product.  BluePrint Healthcare IT now offers one solution to start-ups targeting health care providers.  The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series features regional events where healthcare providers are matched up with early stage but deployment-ready innovative companies through “Speed Dating” sessions to establish pilot programs in alignment with the current innovation initiatives of HHS and ONC. Healthcare providers and emerging vendors can share their needs and ideas—hopefully leading to pilot programs and test-bed opportunities supporting the deployment of innovative and new healthcare technology solutions. The series is currently accepting participation from Mid-West hospitals and interested sponsors. The West Coast Summit, which already has three leading healthcare systems confirmed, is accepting applications from innovation focused Hospitals, Innovators and Sponsors.

Read past the break to learn how to apply!

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We’re excited to host our first BREW event!  Health IT UX and Design 2011 will bring together an accomplished physician entrepreneur with education in design, a former Special Assistant to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and an experienced venture capital investor for a lively discussion.  Fresh Tilled Soil is hosting an educational session on design and will be giving free mini-makeovers.

Want a makeover?   Submit your website, HIT product, or mobile app by October 17! Details here.

Why Should I Attend?
Health reform and market forces are driving the creation of new Health IT solutions such as Accountable Care Organizations and Medical Homes.  These innovations need to coordinate care among more users, from clinicians to patients to administrators.  And these applications must work across Desktops, Tablets, Smartphones, and other Remote Monitoring devices.  Meanwhile, users have become more sophisticated and expect improved usability.  Increasingly, market choices on health IT systems are coming down to design and usability.

Appetizers and drinks included – come sample great local craft beers from Blue Hills Brewery!

Who Should Attend?
* Health IT entrepreneurs and companies
* Health IT developers, marketers, and product development leaders
* Industry Consultants
* Investors
* Designers

Tickets 50% off until Sunday, Oct. 16 midnight! Attendance is limited.

The Personalized Medicine industry continues to move forward with exciting changes, opportunities for innovation, and new issues to explore.  What does the imminent arrival of the $1,000 genome mean for diagnostics? For personalized medicine? For drug discovery and development? For health plans and providers?  Will big data analytics be the key enabler of a new era of discoveries that will empower all stakeholders – pharma/biotech, government, health plans, providers and the empowered patient?

Join an interactive discussion on these issues and more during the free webinar, “The New Face of Personalized Medicine: Targeting Disease Diagnostics and Treatments with Big Data Analytics”.  The moderator is Bio-IT World Editor-in-Chief Kevin Davies PhD, the author of The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine, and will include an exciting panel of three distinguished scientists who are shaping the new face of personalized medicine:

-        Eric Schadt PhD, Chief Scientific Officer Pacific Biosciences; Chairman/Professor of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Director, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York

-        Felix Frueh, PhD, President, Medco Research Institute

-        Colin Hill, CEO and Co-Founder, GNS Healthcare

Send your questions for the panelists ahead of time to personalizedmedicine(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)scratchmm.com or on Twitter use hashtag #pmchat.

Register here for this free event on October 6^th, 2011, 1-2 PM EST.

Our first Health Tech 2011 event was a strong success – with more than 150 attendees, it was a great opportunity to hear amazing keynotes and learn about exciting start-ups in the industry.  A big thanks to our keynotes for their time and insights – Regina Herzlinger, Esther Dyson, and Jay Parkinson – as well as the panelists and lightening round start-ups.

Missed the event? No problem – you can access the available video and slides here.

Why aren’t all the videos and slides available? A few speakers gave live demos at the event and did not have any slides, while others preferred that their presentations not be available after the event.

Did you attend and want to watch the sessions again? Simply access the content by logging in with the email and EventFizz password created during registration.  If you attended the event but did not register yourself, please reset your password using the email address where you have received Health Tech emails.

Thoughts, comments, suggestions on the event and/or videos? Email us so we can improve for next year!