Action is a necessary ingredient for innovation. And health innovations are notoriously difficult to fund – often relying heavily on the time-consuming process of obtaining grants or yielding some ownership through venture capital. Well, new opportunities are presenting themselves. Health innovations may be funded through crowdsourcing sites like Kickstarter and through progressive employers like MedStar Health.
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Edison Sheds Light on a Key Quality of Innovators
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Most people believe that Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric light bulb. This isn’t true, but for all practical purposes, it might as well be. While working electric light bulbs had been demonstrated as early as 1800 in laboratory conditions, Edison was the first to develop an electric light bulb that could be manufactured and operated efficiently enough to be attractive for municipalities, businesses and, later, families.
MedStar Inventor Forums – A First Hand Account
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A diverse crowd filled the True Auditorium at Washington Hospital Center on June 14, 2011. Associates in scrubs, suits, lab coats, and street clothes, representing every part of the MedStar family voluntarily stayed late at work or came in on a day off to catch the inaugural MedStar Inventor Forum. The buzz in the room before the presentation began was energizing; clearly, despite the crowd’s differences, everyone shared a common interest — invention that advances health — and a common trait —the ability to think differently.