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The ER's in urgent need of a fix
An emergency at the ER. Recent research from the New England Healthcare Institute found that roughly a quarter of all emergency-room visits were for non-urgent issues, and another quarter could have been addressed (or prevented) by a visit to a doctor's office. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care chief executive Charles Baker studies the research and suggests the healthcare system should do ...
Cultivating the next Big Idea company
At a San Diego Padres game two seasons ago, Jeffrey Kelley made his pitch to Chris Mirabelli, a Cambridge venture capitalist.
Is MBTA guilty of a misstep in hacker lawsuit?
Faster than a speeding Orange Line. The MBTA sued this month to try to stop three MIT students from talking at a hackers' convention about security flaws they'd uncovered in the T's CharlieCard system. Kristen Amico, a blogger at Schwartz Communications in Waltham, called the move "a giant misstep given [that] this is the Internet age and not the Middle ...
Out-of-state deals stymie chance to build N.E. pillars
Maybe I'm a glass-half-empty sort. Maybe I refuse to acknowledge the reality of the financial markets, and the need for entrepreneurs to deliver a return for their investors within a reasonable time.
The next big thing often can't prove itself
The echo effect. Are you using Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, and Sphere? Hardly a week goes by that the Internet cognoscenti don't declare some new service or tool as the next big thing - and if you're not using it, you're hopelessly behind. But Waltham venture capitalist Mike Hirshland, who spends much of his time in California, says Silicon Valley has ...
Mapping out a nascent market
One of the first clients of Knome Inc. will visit the company's Cambridge headquarters Thursday to hear a presentation. After having sequenced the client's entire genome - essentially decoding his DNA - Knome employees will offer the client "a guided tour" of areas of concern, where genetic variations might indicate a higher propensity to develop a condition like Huntington's disease, ...
In retrospect, the PR strategy for Cuil.com's launch wasn't so cool
Shooting down a launch. The highest-profile website launch in a long while was last Monday's unveiling of Cuil.com (pronounced "cool.") The new search engine was built by former Google and AltaVista engineers, who say it searches three times as many pages as Google. But by the end of the site's first day, many bloggers and journalists seemed to have found ...
When narrow focus is bright idea
NANTUCKET - Jamey and Debbie Bennett's business was born in a dark room in Manhattan.
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