Let the games begin: HITLAB World Cup

Dec 9

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[audio mp3="https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/hbdew0045-david-e-williams-interviews-hitlab.mp3"][/audio]HITLAB is a New York based innovation and teaching lab that focuses on improving healthcare quality and accessibility globally. I caught up recently with HITLAB's Sabra Bhat, who is coordinating a World Cup competition designed to stimulate original solutions to healthcare problems.Here's what we covered:

(0:09) What is the HITLAB World Cup?
(1:35) How do people hear about it? What kind of entrants did you attract?
(3:29) You have entrants from all over the world. Are there different sorts of entries by country or does that not matter?
(4:56) What can you say about the finalists?
(6:04) What is the relationship between the World Cup and the Innovators Summit?
(7:49) What does HITLab do. What do you see for 2016?

—By healthcare business consultant David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.

Let the games begin: HITLAB World Cup

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