The Top Line

The topic of the 8th annual Connected Health Symposium was timely: Driving Quality Up and Costs Down:  New Technologies for an Era of Accountability.  Nevertheless, what made it a great conference were the fresh perspectives it brought to the fore.

Measurement, analysis, and communication are imperative

To one side of me sat a business development professional from a detective agency. To the other side, was an owner of an eye glass store in a downtown mall that seeks to make his store a "destination". Both had come to learn about how to use social media to market their businesses. Moreover, the packed ball room was standing room only.

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium's spring workshop on Analytics, Data and Accountability centered on how data and analytics must change as the U.S.

"How many  people read your blog anyway?" she asked me this morning.  It sounds like such a simple question, but I really don't know.

What do the statistics say?

Peter Rothstein, President New England Clean Energy Council and moderator of today's Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's breakfast seminar entitled Building the Cleantech Ecosystem in New England, kicked off today's program by noting that venture capital firms investment in clean tech has increased dramatically over the last five years, from 2% then to 17% today.  He added that VCs financed more deals in New England than any other state, although our region came in third in terms of total dollars.