Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Business
| Tags: innovation,
energy,
education,
healthcare,
Gordon Brown,
security,
collaborative innovation,
Saul Kaplan,
downing street
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: government,
healthcare,
google,
medicine
Each year, hospital errors kill five times as many Americans as AIDS. Scared? There’s more. According to the Institute of Medicine, hospital errors kill more people than car accidents or breast cancer. So, pop quiz. Do you think society in general is more or less trusting of medical institutions?
Friday, May 08, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Healthcare
| Tags: innovation,
entrepreneur,
energy,
healthcare,
science,
pharmaceuticals,
nanotechnology
Defence of our nation’s health persists as a matter of priority. It’s an irrational position to take, for ultimately the nation cannot preserve our health, we all expire, a bit like identity cards. Our expectation, is that one day we won’t shuffle off this mortal coil, but just go for a refit, an upgrade, popping into Me-Me World at lunch to get memory chips expanded and a couple of heart valves replaced.
We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.