Deals in health care M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of health care M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. In this podcast, Ken Hitchner, partner, global head of healthcare ...

From the panel, Private Equity and the Healthcare M&A Market: What’s on the Radar? comes this podcast featuring the panelists Benjamin Edmands, managing director, CCMP Capital; Jonathan Korngold, managing director, global head of healthcare, General Atlantic; Todd Richter, managing director, global healthcare group, head of financial sponsor coverage & ...

Charles Ditkoff is managing director and co-head of the global healthcare services group with Banc of America Securities. In this podcast, from the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium hosted by The Deal in New York City, Ditkoff speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the state of I.T. in ...

In 2007 deals in the health care M&A marketplace soared. Siemens’s $7 billion purchase of Dade Behring, Medtronic’s purchase of Kyphon and Carlyle Group’s purchase of Manor Care are just a few of the deals that contributed to a trend-setting year in the health care sector. In this ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three ...

Deals in healthcare M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. On Wednesday, The Deal hosts a one-day symposium with attendees such as ...

The Intel Science Talent Search culminates in Washington, D.C. this weekend. The high school science projects cover areas like engineering, math, physics, medicine and health, environmental science, zoology, and others. The research these students have engaged in is astonishing. Many projects will result in innovations, inventions, new treatments, ...

Welcome to the first video installment of our new “Dinner And A…” series. In this episode, we get a visit from Ryanne Hodson of RyanIsHungry, Jay Dedman of Momentshowing, and Eddie Codel of Geek Entertainment TV.

As this was our first attempt at capturing a dinner event in ...

Nigeria is a country in need of fast solutions and perhaps the fastest solution is needed in healthcare. Conferencing technologies, which many in the developed world yawn at, are critical to making telemedicine work. But there’s more to deploying it than setting up cameras and laptops, otherwise companies like Intel–which ...

In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a ...

In this podcast, Sr. Director of Symantec Industry Solutions, Gary Sevounts, provides an overview of how the Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution helps address critical IT issues facing healthcare organizations.

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M&A deals in energy, real estate, and health care are some examples of sectors that still show lots opportunity, with some caution. Jason Lopez spoke with experts in each of these sectors at The Deal’s “M&A Outlook 2008.” In this podcast you’ll hear about the nuances of the markets and ...

In this second part of a conversation with Puppet creator and Reductive Labs founder Luke Kanies, we talk about bootstrapping an open source company. More so than just finding a need and the code to fill it, Luke walks us through the personal risk management thinking he went ...

If you need to be transfered from one hospital to another, did you know that it could take hours or days that result in extra healthcare costs and lots of lost physician productivity? That’s why Darin Vercillo, a practicing physician himself, started Central Logic with a hospital administrator and ...

Somalia’s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation.

Darman is a U.S.-educated engineer who wants to deploy distance learning, Internet-enabled health care, and advanced border security technologies ...

I caught up with Rajat Gupta at the Pan IIT 2007 conference in Silicon Valley last week. Mr. Gupta is deeply passionate about health and education and those were the twin topics of this conversation.

In this interview, he talks about the connection between healthcare and the ...

NEA’s Managing Partner Kittu Kolluri is an engineer turned entrepreneur turned investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this transistion from being an engineer to an investor.

Kittu started his engineering career at SGI, and ...

Learn about business technology optimization, the Mercury and Bristol Technology acquisitions and HP Software.

Seema Chaturvedi is managing director of Accelerator Group, located in Michigan. Last week, Seema was in New York for a private equity conference that her group organized and I caught up with her to find out about opportunities for investments in India. What was more interesting to find out ...

Since 9/11, authorities have linked approximately 5,000 murders in the U.S. to people who suffer from the most severe mental illnesses. That’s 5,000 more deaths in the U.S. than have been attributed to our most-feared terrorist enemy, Al-Qaeda.

In this episode of The Big Picture on Security, I talk with Mary ...

Hear more on the concept of Business Technology and how HP helps customers focus on business outcomes.

At the end of the Human Genome Project, researcher Niroshan Ramachandran, at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, opened the door into a much bigger challenge: isolating and measuring the interactions between individual proteins inside DNA. This science, or Proteomics, holds great potential for finding cures to disease and ...

Each year, the city of Scottsdale, Ariz., hosts a week-long exercise called the Coyote Crisis Campaign. Based on a different security threat each year, the exercise this year focuses on the threat of pandemic influenza, particularly avian influenza that may one day be capable of spreading among humans.

This is a program I’m calling PodTech on Pandemic Preparedness. Say that five times fast!

In all seriousness, pandemic influenza has health care experts and scientists all over the world scrambling to prepare for a global disease outbreak that could be as deadly as ebola and as common as the common ...