Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA

This extensively revised book is an essential hands-on resource for all involved in digital health innovation and presents an entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are contemplating getting involved. It represents a key resource to maximize the reader's knowledge when investing in this area. Topics covered include regulatory affairs featuring detailed guidance on the legal environment, protecting digital health intellectual property in software,… Show more

This extensively revised book is an essential hands-on resource for all involved in digital health innovation and presents an entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are contemplating getting involved. It represents a key resource to maximize the reader's knowledge when investing in this area. Topics covered include regulatory affairs featuring detailed guidance on the legal environment, protecting digital health intellectual property in software, hardware and business processes, financing a digital health start up, cybersecurity best practice and digital health business model testing for desirability, feasibility and viability

Digital Health Entrepreneurship is directed towards clinicians and other digital health entrepreneurs and stresses an interdisciplinary approach to product development, deployment, dissemination and implementation. It therefore provides an ideal resource for medical professionals across a broad range of disciplines seeking a greater understanding of digital health innovation and entrepreneurship. Show less

Blogs, posts, videos and commentaries about physician innovation and entrepreneurship

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation
First Edition

Edited by Harris A. Eyre, Michael Berk, Helen Lavretsky, and III Charles Reynolds
Presents a roadmap towards actualizing transdisciplinary mental health innovation
Incorporates together a diverse set of viewpoints, including clincial medicine, translational science, technology innovation, venture funding, and philanthropy
Emphasizes philanthropy as a novel funding pathway to propelling mental health innovation

Application of business intelligence and analytics in healthcare

This book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship. Topics covered include regulatory affairs featuring detailed guidance on the legal environment, protecting digital health intellectual property in software, hardware and business processes, financing a digital… Show more

This book presents a hands on approach to the digital health innovation and entrepreneurship roadmap for digital health entrepreneurs and medical professionals who are dissatisfied with the existing literature on or are contemplating getting involved in digital health entrepreneurship. Topics covered include regulatory affairs featuring detailed guidance on the legal environment, protecting digital health intellectual property in software, hardware and business processes, financing a digital health start up, cybersecurity best practice, and digital health business model testing for desirability, feasibility, and viability.
Digital Health Entrepreneurship is directed to clinicians and other digital health entrepreneurs and stresses an interdisciplinary approach to product development, deployment, dissemination and implementation. It therefore provides an ideal resource for medical professionals across a broad range of disciplines seeking a greater understanding of digital health innovation and entrepreneurship. Show less

Faucett et al,1 in their review of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies, concluded that there should be an increased emphasis on nonclinical core competencies, such as professionalism and systems-based practice.

Noticeably absent are demonstrating competencies in the business of medical practice, medical practice entrepreneurship, and the process of medical innovation and quality improvement. As a former program director, my observation was that… Show more

Faucett et al,1 in their review of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies, concluded that there should be an increased emphasis on nonclinical core competencies, such as professionalism and systems-based practice.

Noticeably absent are demonstrating competencies in the business of medical practice, medical practice entrepreneurship, and the process of medical innovation and quality improvement. As a former program director, my observation was that these learning gaps contribute to poor patient outcomes, persistent systemic dysfunction, and patient experience problems because of ignorance about best practices, many of which derive from nonsick care industries. Show less

Co author of chapter on digital health entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity with scarce, uncontrolled resources. The goal of all entrepreneurs, including physician entrepreneurs, is to create user defined value through the deployment of innovation. There are particular challlenges in creating, testing, validating, deploying and harvesting healthcare value. This compendium of posts, commentaries and blogs on health innovation and entrepreneurship is for those interested in getting their ideas to patients or helping someone… Show more

Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity with scarce, uncontrolled resources. The goal of all entrepreneurs, including physician entrepreneurs, is to create user defined value through the deployment of innovation. There are particular challlenges in creating, testing, validating, deploying and harvesting healthcare value. This compendium of posts, commentaries and blogs on health innovation and entrepreneurship is for those interested in getting their ideas to patients or helping someone who is. The pathway is treacherous and fraught with hazard. With this roadmap, however, you can overcome the odds. Good luck with your new healthcare idea. Show less

Our book tells technopreneurs, health professionals and market perceivers how to get their life science and bimedical ideas to market.

A collection of tips, blogs and blurbs for physician entrepreneurs

Recent updates on optical detection of cancer

Update on diagnosis and treatment of non-surgical oral problems

A casebook for those teaching life science commercializaton, this book presents cases in all facets of bioinnovation and is designed to be a companion volume to "Building Biotechnology"

For physician entrepreneurs, these books will walk you through the process of healthcare innovation and how to determine if your idea has commercial potential.

Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States. Each year, 30,000 Americans and more than 300,000 people worldwide will be diagnosed as having oral cancer, and 8000 to 10,000 deaths in the United States will result. Unfortunately, although significant advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of oral cancer, the survival rate has not meaningfully changed in 30 years.

This issue of the Otolaryngology Clinics of North America reflects three basic trends in biomedical technology research, development, and transfer and, more specifically, their application to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.

Basic science principles of facial plastic surgery

Value based care in otolaryngology

A Business Journal for Physician Entrepreneurs