Improving Health Care: Why a Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
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Just What the Doctor Ordered: Using Parks to Improve Children’s Health
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The projects physicians have worked on with students throughout the years have been incredibly diverse. One team worked with a clinician who was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon bombings and witnessed the need for a better tourniquet that could be applied quickly by first responders or even self-administered by an injured individual, such as a soldier on the battlefield. Another team had a more electrical focus, developing a wearable device that measured blood pressure continuously. The expertise of the students working on these projects is as diverse as the devices themselves.
Jonathan Miller, a graduate student in integrated design and management, experienced this diversity of backgrounds firsthand this past semester. His team also included two mechanical engineering undergraduates, an electrical engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology HST program. The team worked together on developing a device that can enable more patients to receive dialysis at home rather than at a clinic.
Mentorship and guidance extends beyond device design and the end of the course. HST graduate student Benjamin Maimon found this focus on skills useful. His project in the course lead to the development of Recon Therapeutics, a startup that simplifies reconstitution — the process of mixing powdered drugs with a solvent — using new drug-discovery technology.
The marriage of design and professional skills, as well as the collaborations with some of the top medical minds in the country, have turned the course into an incubator for products, startups, and patents, such as Recon Therapeutics. Such was the case when Bianchi presented his sleep disorder diagnosis problem back in fall Thomas Lipoma, then a mechanical engineering senior, along with roommates and fellow 2.
Using an algorithm, the device was then able to help doctors diagnose certain sleep disorders. Continuing work on the product after graduation, the team founded Rest Devices, Inc. Lipoma and his co-founders credit 2. Connor Coley named a Chemical and Engineering News Talented Twelve Protein analysis uncovers new medulloblastoma subtypes Inspired by nature, reaching across disciplines 3Q: Using lidar to assess destruction in Puerto Rico Novel optics for ultrafast cameras create new possibilities for imaging Faster analysis of medical images The quantum choreographer.
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