Business of Health Care

An article in the New York Times this past week reported that the United States was forced to import two chemotherapy drugs from abroad because U.S. companies could not produce enough of the required drugs in a sufficient amount of time. Shortages of both of these drugs “threatened the lives and care of thousands of [...]

For the third Business of Health Care lecture, we are proud to present Nina Nashif, a Managing Director at Sandbox Industries which is the exclusive fund manager of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Fund. In this lecture, Nina shared some of the exiting work being done at Sandbox and Healthbox, one of the first [...]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which was passed in March of 2010, will extend health insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans and cost an estimated 940 billion dollars4. The United States has not experienced healthcare reform of this magnitude since the enactment of Medicare in 1965. The bill extends coverage in [...]

I was browsing the internet recently, and I stumbled upon a company called Happtique.  Happtique offers a few products in the health care and mobile computing space. One of their products, in particular, caught my attention because I had never really seen anything like it before. Happtique offers custom enterprise app stores that allow health [...]