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On leadership, product innovation, talent cultivation, and ecosystem development across drugs, devices, diagnostics, and digital health tools.
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Setting Drug Expiration Dates
Apr 9, 2020 | Medical Products, Medicine, Product Development
Have you ever wondered how the expiration date is determined for a pharmaceutical product you’ve used? Whether prescription or over the counter, all medications have their expiration dates determined through a stability program in which batches of the product are held...
Outbreak! Combating the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Apr 7, 2020 | COVID
Chapter 10 – Are Your Clinical Trials Impacted by COVID-19? Because I spend a lot of time thinking about the approval process for new medical products, I had already begun to consider the impact of travel and access restrictions on the conduct of clinical trials....
Outbreak! Combating the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Apr 2, 2020 | COVID
Chapter 9 – Preparing for an Epidemic Here’s a Ted Talk from 2015 by Bill Gates which presents a strikingly (though not surprisingly) prescient look at the ‘next epidemic’. What I like best about this talk are the preparedness ideas he presents. I’ve already...
Outbreak! Combating the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Mar 31, 2020 | COVID
Chapter 8 - More Immediate Actions by the FDA to Increase Medical Supplies The COVID-19 outbreak has created shortages of medical supplies such as gloves, masks, hand sanitizer, and respiratory ventilators (the last essential for treatment of critical care patients)....
Outbreak! Combating the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Mar 26, 2020 | COVID
Chapter 7a – What to Do When There are Not Enough Lab Tests/Test Sites It’s pretty amazing how circumstances have changed in the past couple of weeks, and I’m sure the readers of this blog are adapting to the necessary changes to protect our communities. You may have...
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Kick Start Your Company With a Business Model
Nov 16, 2021 | Business, Leadership
Business model creation and ideation can be done solo or with a team, as in this picture.When I started my business, many people advised me to create a business plan. I researched business plans and quickly found them tedious to develop and cumbersome to use. Instead,...
The What, How, and Why of Innovation Clusters
Oct 19, 2021 | Business, Science
You may be wondering how your local companies could work with regional partners to grow, transform, or reinvent your industry to be more competitive nationally or even globally. Perhaps you’ve recently heard some the buzz about innovation clusters, or you have seen a...
What Does CLIA Mean For Laboratory Testing?
Aug 31, 2021 | Medical Products, Medicine, Science
Testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19), continues to be in the news, and you may hear the term CLIA in some of these conversations. CLIA refers to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, which are amendments to the Public Health Act...
Hot New Medical Technologies
Aug 3, 2021 | Medical Products, Medicine, Science
Part 1 - Additive Manufacturing of Medical ProductsLately, it seems like science fiction has exploded into the media. From the rapid delivery of effective vaccines against SARS-COV-2 to the first civilians in space, the pace of change is dizzying. This month’s series...