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Healthcare Innovation in Omaha: Building Bridges through Collaboration
The Economic Development Administration’s Good Jobs Challenge marks another milestone in Omaha’s evolving innovation pipeline programs. The proposed Omaha AI Pipeline (OAIP) represents the latest evolution in a sequence of successful initiatives that began with the Omaha Medical Technology Pipeline (OMTP) in 2019 and continued through the Omaha Virtual Reality Pipeline (OVRP).
The difference between a start-up incubator and an accelerator
The elementary school experience of hatching chicken eggs is always a toss-up. Hopefully, you end up with some healthy chicks, instead of a bunch of eggs that never hatch. (It’s not a good time seeing a group of disappointed kids). When the experiment begins, the eggs...
Infectious Aerosol Mask Prevents Viral Spread in Healthcare Setting
In the middle of a global health pandemic, sometimes the stars align for an invention at UNMC, the perfect collaboration of creative innovation and local business that lead to the creation of a new product that can change the way medical services are provided to...
Who are the Ideal Members of a Startup Team and Why?
Just like a baking a cake without eggs can be a recipe for disaster, a startup without an entrepreneur is a prescription for failure. But it doesn’t have to be. Just as you can substitute applesauce for eggs when baking a cake, according to UNeTech Senior Ventures...
What is a Startup?
When you think of startups, does your brain automatically think of wacky ideas from the pitches you’ve seen on Shark Tank --- the Squatty Potty, Scrub Daddy Sponges, Bomba Socks, the Simply Fit Board, the Ring Video Doorbell. All of these famous inventions had its...
UNeTech Celebrates National Entrepreneurs’ Day
In 2012 President Obama declared November National Entrepreneurship Month, and he picked the third Tuesday of the month to be National Entrepreneurs’ Day. It’s a day worth celebrating at UNeTech, where we spend our time working with brilliant minds who are shaping the...
BreezMed Aims to Make Prior Authorization a Breeze
Most people who go to the pharmacy to get their prescriptions aren’t aware of all the behind-the-scenes work involved in getting their medication to them. One of those steps is prior authorization, which is time-consuming for physicians. BreezMed, a company founded by...
Omaha’s University Startup Incubator
Thank you to the Omaha World Herald for the recent article featuring the great work at UNO and UNMC to advance great new products out of the amazing research in Omaha!
The Omaha medical technology pipeline responds to COVID-19
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the Omaha Medical Technology Pipeline shifted its focus. Instead of fostering innovation to improve the future of medical care the Pipeline allocated its resources to protect healthcare providers — right now. Fellows sponsored by...
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