Medical technology offers enormous potential for scalable medicine--to improve the quality and access in health care while simultaneously reducing cost. However, current medical device innovation within companies often only offers incremental advances on existing products, or originates from engineers with limited knowledge of the clinical complexities. We describe how the Hacking Medicine Init...

From 1981 until 1999, while I was a consultant to Sterling Software, Inc., the company grew from startup that bought four computer software companies for less than US$25 million an international and services powerhouse. During those 18 years, Williams, CEO driving force behind company's growth, Samuel E. “Sam” Wyly, chairman of board its financial mastermind, operated on principle “Buy, don't b...

The Athena Startup Kit (ask), is an interactive front-end to the Atlas software framework (athena). Written in python, a very effective “glue” language, it is build on top of the, in principle unrelated, code repository, build, configuration, debug, binding, and analysis tools. Ask automates many error-prone tasks that are otherwise left to the end-user, thereby pre-empting a whole category of ...

The article leads to an answer of the research question, whether the developed and implemented regional startup ecosystem model is in line with the elements, principles, objects and iterations of standard knowledge requirements to develop the business environment. In addition the regional ecosystem elements are analyzed in foreign models and the own model is described (the structure, elements, ...

This report describes a discrete-time model of the startup phase of a FlexRay network. The startup behaviour of this network is analysed in the presence of several faults. It is shown that in certain cases a faulty node can prevent the network from communicating altogether. One previously unknown scenario is uncovered.

Through implementation of its 2000 pharmaceutical reform, the South Korean government expected to reduce the cost of medications and improve service levels, medical appropriateness of care, and drug effectiveness. However, despite the reform's lofty goals, unintended consequences have distorted the supply of medical services and spending. These consequences have included increasing the use of u...