Institute For The Future

GPS-Enabled Asthma Inhaler May Uncover Triggers

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have developed a GPS-enabled asthma inhaler that they hope will enable researchers to uncover new...

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I've been thinking about and blogging about innovation here for the better part of a year, as part of my ongoing research looking at how emerging...

Parkinson's Trial Points Toward Treatment Research Innovations

23andMe announced it has enrolled more than 2,000 patients into its Parkinson's Disease "community" since it first started recruiting Parkinson's...

The Washington Post reports on new Pentagon-sponsored research on energy efficiency, and the hard realities that now make it a priority:...

Richard Posner writes in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education about the current financial crisis, and why experts didn't take early warnings...

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There were no commercial airline fatalities in the United States in 2008. In contrast, in-hospital medical errors killed close to 98,000 people,...

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Prescription pill bottles, at first glance, don't really seem like an area ripe for innovation. But GlowCaps, a Boston area startup, may has found...

23andMe has launched an online community for Mommy bloggers that, by all indications, will give soon-to-be and current moms a place to discuss...

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One of the focal areas for the Institute for the Future's Technology Horizons program this year is a theme we're calling "lightweight innovation"....

Reading the stories on Ruby's bequest has made me think about  the future of caring in India. I was particularly taken in by the story of Frieda...

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On Personalized, Population Health

IFTF Senior Researcher Mike Liebhold delivered a keynote address on combinatorial innovation as part of a Department of Health and Human Services'...

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The Green Hospital

We've been looking into Green Health for a while now, so it's nice to see this Boston Globe item on an experimental design for the green hospital...

I contributed a story of caring to Ruby's Bequest and thought I'd share an excerpt here. Read the full story here....

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I’ve been reading through Ruby’s Bequest and have been struck by how useful a similar exercise could be for Kenya. When it comes to caring for the...