The Pharma Times special meeting last week reminded me of an issue I have wrestled with for some time – the caution and secretiveness of our industry. Granted, it’s a competitive market and there’s a certain loss of power in showing your hand, but I wonder if we should rethink how close we play those [...]
With the industry-changing success of Nintendo’s Wii, swiftly followed by the intriguing possibilities of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect, ‘physical interface’ and motion sensing input has suddenly become a mainstream reality for gamers, in what few analysts predicted just 5 years ago. So now that the technology has hit the high streets, it seems strange to [...]
When they announced it’s early retirement, the Google Health team explained how they were unable to translate their notable success in other consumer-centric services – including a search engine you might have come across, a certain user generated video site, web browsing and mobile operating systems – into the healthcare arena. Envisioning the wholesale [...]
Going to the doctor can take ages. Even for the most simple of visits you can be half an hour in the waiting room before your 5 minutes in the clinic. You know you need to be there, but doesn’t it sometimes feel like a more lengthy process than it needs to? No longer [...]
Emma and I recently went to meet NHS London. As a strategic health authority, they have led the field in implementing the digital patient record system and are one of the few, if not the only, SHA to have achieved 100% coverage. The technical infrastructure is complex, but the concept is simple. The system [...]
We’re all innovators here at eBee. That’s great, assuming we can explain what we mean by using that big word – innovation. A recent debate we had here (as part of a monthly book club we run) got me thinking about this. I would like to try and define innovation in this entry from [...]
It seems only fitting than one of my earliest blogs would be based on a kitchen appliance. Samsung have been showcasing their newest fridge. It has WIFI and an 8 inch LCD screen with several really useful functions built in. For the family household, it will access a Google calendar to display on the screen, [...]
Japanese cuisine was on to something way before the western world hijacked and named it. We eat with our eyes first. No more lumps of mash, Oliver Twist style to be dumped onto your plate. Food is now carefully constructed in a delicate tower. But no, I’m not eBee’s chef. I’m making a point, [...]