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Leonard Kish (@leonardkish)

Twitter Bio:: Harnessing network behavior for better health | VivaPhi |#HealthIT #prodmgmt, MBA, MSIS, neuroscience, producer @HIBCtv at #HIMSS13, feedback + change = good
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The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Health Care

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For sticking it to fraudulent pharmaceutical sellers. Sproxil has developed a game-changing approach to help eliminate the fake drugs that kill more than 700,000 people around the world each year. When patients receive their medications, they simply scratch off a sticker label to reveal a code, then text it to Sproxil, which verifies its authenticity. Last year, the company crossed the 2-million-use threshold and launched a partnership with IBM to analyze customer data so they could discern drug-counterfeiting patterns. Sproxil has since expanded to several other fields in need of product verification, from agricultural goods to auto parts.For

Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media

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You want a vision for the future of health care? Donât look to policymakers and regulators. Look to innovators and innovations. Look to San Diegoâs wireless mesas and San Franciscoâs silicon valleys. Look at Scanaduâs protean medical Tricorder. They get it, and itâs awesome. Watch their one-and-a-half-minute video before reading on.

Scanaduâs vision embraces patient-centric healthcare as a personal information service

IBM's Watson starts its medical career

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IBM’s Dr. Watson of Jeopardy! fame has finally completed its residency and fellowships and, presumably to its creators’ utter delight, is now a practicing oncologist.The prodigy “cognitive system” completed its training in less than a year at the illustrious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and although only proficient in lung cancer right now, Dr. Watson’s career as an advisor to oncologists everywhere is off to a great start.A recently released video demonstration shows Dr. Watson in action, researching, evaluating and treating a 37 year old woman with newly diagnosed stage IV lung cancer in his advisory capacity to a hurried and pretty