Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 5)

SM: Is there anything in the software-as-a-service world that you are observing or that you could tie up with? KL: Traditionally all of those IT systems have been client-server types of relationships. All of the newer point solutions emerging are using the software-as-a-service model.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 4)

SM: You came into the company in 2004. What were the first few things you did? KL: I didn’t have to change the company in a radical way. I looked at the market opportunity for how much physicians and health care professionals would spend for software and reference materials. That is a $400 million market.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 3)

SM: You did two companies prior to Epocrates which were focused on content? KL: PublishOne and ScreamingMedia were content-oriented. SM: After ScreamingMedia you were recruited to Epocrates? KL: I sold ScreamingMedia to CBS in 2004.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 2)

SM: Where did you go after Apple? KL: I went to Silicon Graphics in 1993. They recruited me away because they wanted to build a developer organization like the one Apple had. That was a tough story.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 1)

Kirk Loevner began his career with VisiCorp in the early 1980s before moving to Apple, where he worked for the next ten years. Afterwards he worked at Silicon Graphics, as the CEO of Internet Shopping Network, and then founded PublishOne in November 1998. He then was the CEO and chairman of Pinnacor (ScreamingMedia) from December

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Design that Moves Business: Apple’s “Overnight” Success! (Part 1)

When has design moved business? Design and business folks love the example of the iPod. Designers say, look at how one design-driven product was able to reshape an entire industry. MBAs emphasize how the strategy behind the iPod-iTunes system and the product roadmap led to Apple’s success. We all tend to point to the iPod

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Luminus Devices Founder and Chief Technology Officer Alexei Erchak (Part 7)

SM: Where is the company in terms of revenues and actual designs and production volumes? AE: We have revenue from the projection television market. We also have revenue from the front projection applications, and that is increasing as well. One big application is LCD. What we have done to try and accelerate that is work closely

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3G iPhone’s Top 5 Component Beneficiaries

The 3G iPhone is out. Besides Apple, who else is a beneficiary of this major PR event? Here, we look at the top five component vendors: Infineon, Triquint, Samsung, Broadcom and Interdigital.