Items Tagged ‘technology’
January 9, 2020
That Time Mayovox Predicted Computers Were One Step Behind Microwave Ovens
By In the Loop 
A recently uncovered Mayovox article from 1982 explains how a handful of Mayo staff banded together to buy Apple computers and form a computer club, where they began exploring the new timesaving device.
Tags: Karen Koka, Mayo History, Mayovox, technology
March 5, 2015
Because, Technology: What (and Who) Tomorrow’s Patients Will Be Wearing
By In the Loop
We here at In the Loop are hip to the latest tech and innovative inventions. (Sliced bread. Light bulbs. Don’t even get us started on the four-slice bagel toaster.) Which is why, when a recent Fast Company article on wearable technology highlighted one of Mayo Clinic’s very own technological innovations, we took notice. Preventice BodyGuardian […]
Tags: Innovation, Mayo Clinic Ventures, technology
July 22, 2014
Adventures in Mayo Clinic Ventures
By In the Loop
When you think about entrepreneurs and breakthrough inventions, you might imagine someone tinkering with a gadget (perhaps a doohickey or thingamajig) in a garage. You might not, however, picture a Mayo researcher tinkering with peptides to fight hypertension, creating a tracking system for viruses, or fashioning a tool to make medical information easier to read […]
Tags: Dr. Horng Chen, Dr. John Burnett, Dr. Randall Walker, hypertension, Infectious Diseases, Kah Whye Peng, Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator, Mayo Clinic Ventures, Oncology, technology
April 29, 2014
Everything’s better with ‘Better’
It’s been more than a week now since our friends in Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions and Silicon Valley-based The Social+Capital Partnership launched a new personal health assistant service called “Better.” Better is more than just an app, although the Better app is a centerpiece of the service. Better co-founder Geoff Clapp describes Better as […]
Tags: Better, GBS, Global Business Solutions, Mayo Clinic Ventures, technology