Patients typically have limited access to their vital medical information, which forces them to recall information – often inaccurately – from memory when they aren’t at their primary place of care.
Two students make last-minute plans to attend the night’s WaterFire Providence event, and want to round up a few buddies to join the fun. Using the camera in a mobile phone, they shoot a picture of a downtown coffee house and send it out to a dozen friends across the city, with a GPS tag, directions and a message instructing them where to meet at 7 p.m.
Since its inception in 2005, Rhode Island’s Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) has been working to transform the state’s economy from one born in the Industrial Age to one firmly planted in the era of computers and biotechnology.
When was the last time you talked with a 17-year-old high school senior who knew the difference between revenue and profit, who could talk about the importance of margins and finding new markets for company growth? We all hit our stride in life at different times, some early, other late. Jean Merlain – high school senior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (the Met), in Providence, and the CEO of a soda company – is on the early side. He knows what he wants.
A moment of frustration at Disneyland brought Providence software developer David Berube the idea that would quickly make him the winner of the 2008 Rhode Island Innovation Awards Rising Star designation.
Chris Crawford likes to keep a low profile. Even though his software business, founded in 2000, consistently breaks its own sales records the CEO insists that, “We like to promote the brands we represent and not us.”
Elizabeth Pierotti never planned to make her way through life as an inventor. In fact, she started out as a Catholic nun. But it was music – the same thing that drew her to the convent in the first place – that launched her career inventing consumer electronics.
Judging the 2007 Rhode Island Innovation Awards affords me the opportunity to gain insight into some of the most interesting companies and people in the state. It is an invigorating process.
The Providence Business News regularly celebrates the best of Rhode Island’s business community. Our most recent celebration, the 2007 Rhode Island Innovation Awards, is another example of PBN’s continuing commitment to the region.
