Healthcare NBIC Launch

I have discovered someone else IS blogging about innovation in healthcare, and his site links to dozens of others I'll have to check out. The Health IC Summit he mentions had to be canceled for low registration, but the blog is going strong. Learn more about Jack Powers.

Healthcare NBIC Launch: Convergence and the Life Sciences

Healthcare NBIC is a blog edited by Jack Powers, director of the the International Informatics Institute (IN3.ORG), in support of the Health IC Summit conference on disruptive innovations in healthcare. We'll use the blog to highlight important developments, hot technologies, interesting business models and intriguing people who are applying new science and emerging technology to transform medicine in the U.S. and around the world.

"NBIC" comes from a U.S. National Science Foundation study Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science. (Download the NSF report in PDF format.) The report describes a grand unification of scientific knowledge from the smallest scale of atoms and molecules up through cells and tissue to  machines and computers all the way up to the most complex device of all, the human brain.