Israel Green-Hopkins, MD, is a second-year fellow in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and a fierce advocate for innovation in health information technology, with a passion for design, mobile health, remote monitoring and more. Follow him on Twitter @israel_md.
Pediatrics
Bringing everyone to the table: Hackathon brings a clinician’s dietary innovation to life
Finding meals a whole family can eat – including kids with food allergies – can be like solving a Rubik’s cube.
Elizabeth Hait, MD, MPH, wears many hats. She’s a physician, researcher, wife and mother just to name a few.
Weight loss: Docs unveil new study of bariatric surgery in teens | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Researchers this week unveiled the 1st early results from a benchmark clinical trial evaluating bariatric weight-loss surgery in severely obese adolescents.
The investigators reported "encouraging" outcomes in the more than 240 patients who were, on average, 17 years old, finding "few short-term complications" in the 30 days following treatment.
Has lung MRI for children come of age?
By Tom Ulrich
Children’s hospital CEOs: Pediatric healthcare is at a ‘tipping point’
To summarize the state of pediatric health care today, Steven Altschuler, MD, president and CEO of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), quoted the 1963 movie The Leopard: "Everything must change, so that everything can stay the same."
Healthcare software innovation: Why in-house accelerators are better
By Naomi Fried
Naomi Fried, PhD, is Boston Children’s Hospital’s first Chief Innovation Officer and a founder of the hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program. She tweets @NaomiFried.
Pediatric innovation summit: Top 5 takeaways
By Lisa Fratt
Boston Children’s Hospital convened the National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 with an ambitious goal: to bring together thought leaders to address the toughest challenges in pediatric health care. During the two-day summit, a series of panels and town hall discussions sparked dynamic dialogue.
Affordable Care Act: ‘There’s no going back’
By Scott Howe
Solving patient engagement: It’s about the data
By Tom Ulrich
At the start of today’s National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 panel on patient engagement, healthcare journalist Carey Goldberg offered up a personal anecdote about engagement – or the lack of it – in medical care:
Abiomed donates $375K to Boston Children’s Heart Center | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Massachusetts-based medical device maker Abiomed (NSDQ:ABMD) announced a multi-year $375,000 grant donated to Boston Children’s Hospital Heart Center, the newly minted cardiovascular care department of Boston Children’s Hospital.
The funding will help support the Heart Center’s efforts advance research and education initiatives in 3 main areas, Abiomed said:
Industry-researcher partnerships accelerate innovation, but funding remains Achilles’ heel
Early-stage researchers face a stark economic reality: decreasing available dollars. To address this barrier, a panel of experts at Boston Children’s Hospital’s National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 discussed the shifting of funding from venture capitalists to larger medical device, informatics and pharmaceutical companies.