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"Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forc... - 0 views

  • Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues1:30-3:00pm MaRS CR2, Medicine 2.0 Congress, Toronto (Sept17, 2009)
  • "Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forces"
  • "Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forces"Presenters: Trevor D Van Mierio (Evolution Health- formerly V-CC Systems; Toronto/San Francisco, Canada), Rachel Fournir (Evolution Health, Toronto/ San Francisco, Canada), Breanne John (Evolution Health, Toronto, Canada)This presentation took more of a generic approach and discussed the state of eHealth in general without focusing on a specific product.
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    The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues.
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    The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues. Sept 17, 2009
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Thoughts and Ideas as Web 2.0 meets Health Care via HealthCamp: Medicine 2.0 lands at M... - 0 views

  • Medicine 2.0 kicks off today (Thursday September 17th, 2009) at the MaRS Centre in Toronto.
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    Mention of the Medicine 2.0 Congress event being held at MaRS Sept 17, 2009.
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Today at TIFF: September 16, 2009 - Toronto Life Daily Blog - 0 views

  • From Venice to MaRs party in celebration of Italian filmmakers (guests include Tilda Swinton), MaRs Discovery District, 8:30 p.m.
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    Mention of the celebration of Italian filmmakers eventt as part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 being held at the MaRS Centre.
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    Mention of the celebration of Italian filmmakers eventt as part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 being held at the MaRS Centre. Sept 16, 2009
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Hub's Death Signals Larger Shift - Ottawa Business Journal - 0 views

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    Ottawa Innovation Hub will not go through. Reference is made that about MaRS Discovery District which connects entrepreneurs with business-savvy types.
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    Ottawa Innovation Hub will not go through. Reference is made that about MaRS Discovery District which connects entrepreneurs with business-savvy types. Sept 23, 2009
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Toronto's place in the "creative economy" - Excalibur - 0 views

  • What is this creative economy? It is an economic system that relies most on ideas to serve as its major capital, instead of services or physical capital. Take Google for example. In an economy based on ideas, the potentialfor breakaway successes like Google is far greater.
  • According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.   What Florida terms the “super creative core” of this new class includes “scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designersand architects, as well as the ‘thought leadership’ of modern society: non-fiction writers, editors, cultural figures, think-tank researchers, analysts and other opinion-makers.”
  • What sets a creative city apart from a non-creative city? Florida proposes that it is the “three Ts of economic development”: technology, talent and tolerance.
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  • Florida promote a drawback on new capital investments in such traditional creative staples as ballet, opera, symphony and museums. Although these are necessary public entertainment options to maintain, studies show the majority of university students and young to middle-aged professionals who make up the bulk of the emerging creative class, in fact, prefer more accessible venues.
  • Florida is not saying the city should fund the construction of all these venues, but should support them with entrepreneurial assistance, specified tax-cuts and governmenttools to ease operation, like streamlining the bureaucracy behind applying for liquor licences and permits for musical events and public attractions.
  • The MaRS centre, located at College St. and University Ave. in downtown Toronto, is a fantastic first step in better integrating the city’s creative talents in the technology and science fields. But more buildings and communities like this need to be developed to take advantage of all of Toronto’s creative economic potential.
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    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science.
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    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science. Sept 23, 2009
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Creativity, innovation and film festivals - The Star - 0 views

  • At the corner of College St. and University Ave. sits a growing monument to this kind of original thinking. MaRS – short for Medical and Related Sciences – is all about a building becoming much more than the sum of its users and programming. Already, MaRS has become a global leader in biotech research; it has certainly become a city builder, creating jobs and spawning companies; and, of course, it does all this by being a creative cauldron – just like the film festival.
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    TIFF is essential for Toronto's future but corporate support lags for its new home. Small mention of MaRS becoming a great global leader in biotech research, a great city building and creating new jobs. Sept 24, 2009
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    TIFF is essential for Toronto's future but corporate support lags for its new home. Small mention of MaRS becoming a great global leader in biotech research, a great city building and creating new jobs.
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The Fish Rots from the Head - Age of Autism Blog - 0 views

  • In Toronto in 2006, Bly attended the “Global Connect Conference” hosted by obscure non-profits CONNECT and MaRS, where his “Science”Blogs won the award of “Best Science to Speak.” The affiliations of the other panelists were quite telling.
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    Mention of the "Global Connect Conference" that happened at MaRS in 2006.
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    Mention of the "Global Connect Conference" that happened at MaRS in 2006. Sept 23, 2009
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Fox vows to boost all Parkinson's groups - The Star - 0 views

  • Introducing his powerful Parkinson's disease foundation into his native Canada today, actor Michael J. Fox pledged that the research-based charity would help boost all groups working in the field.
  • Michael J. Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto today.
  • Fox's group has poured $150 million (U.S.) into international stem cell research and cutting edge neuroscience since it was formed in 2000.
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    Michael J Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Sept 24, 2009.

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