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Dave deBronkart is an inspiring international speaker on healthcare and health IT. His standing ovation TED Talk has led to hundreds of conference keynotes and corporate events, earning top ratings by understanding each audience to deliver the host’s unique messaging objective. More⇒

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Advocating for FHIR: the future of health IT

The HL7® FHIR® standard for health data mobility has been in development for years, and is starting to make a real difference in how easily information can move. I’ve become involved as a voice for, and voice of, the patient’s role in the project. Learn why it’s important⇒

Books: Let Patients Help, Facing Death, and Birth of a Battle Cry

Vivid, clear writing from a patient who faced death, got great care, helped achieve his own survival, and has become a leading global activist for patient engagement.

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"Cracking the Code: The Real Cost of Health Care"

Do you understand your health costs? NOLA journalists dig in hard

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Regular readers know I’ve long been crusading for price transparency (I call it “visible prices”), so we can spend more wisely on our families’ care and so we can reward innovators who offer quality services at a better price.

That’s the norm in every other industry, but it hasn’t been in healthcare. A new series by investigative reporter Lee Zurik on New Orleans station WVUE, and another by Times-Picayune reporter Jed Lipinsky, are digging into the how and why, and crowdsourcing real-world price information. I appear in Lee’s first episode. Read on ⇒

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Highly rated international speaker and author “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart delivers custom keynote addresses tailored to the needs of your audience. See videos of past speeches, testimonials, and contact information.

Delivering the opening keynote at Medicine 2.0, Toronto, September 2009
Delivering the opening keynote at Medicine 2.0, Toronto, September 2009 – the original “Gimme My Damn Data” speech. Photo: Gunther Eysenbach, Creative Commons BY-SA

Recently added

Fall 2022

  • Monday, Dec. 5, New York City: Innovation meetup – stay tuned for details! (Lower Manhattan)
  • Tuesday, Dec. 6, New York City: Disruptive Innovators CIO Forum. Panel moderator: “Optimizing the patient & clinician experience lifecycle.”
  • Tuesday, Dec. 13, Washington DC: Leapfrog Group Annual Meeting. Participant. 

Winter 2023

Spring 2023

  • May 8-12, New Orleans:  HL7 FHIR Work Group Meeting. Participant for Patient Empowerment WG
  • June 6-9, Amsterdam: FHIR DevDays International. Patient track lead.

Summer 2023

Past events

Earlier events, 2008-2015, are on the past events archive page.

Past Events – 2016

  • January 8, The White House: Dialogue on Men’s Health.  Panel.
  • January 13-15, Palo Alto: diaTribe Foundation. Executive Innovation Lab on Diabetes and Obesity. Participant.
  • February 16, New Jersey (via Web): The College of New Jersey, New Media and Health Communication Course. Guest lecturer.
  • February 17, Raleigh: ProPatient content production.
  • February 25-27: Private retreat.
  • March 1-2, Alberta: Alberta Health Services, HPSP 2016 Healthcare Providers Conference.  Keynote.
  • March 5, Trento, Italy: IBA Proteus User Meeting. Keynote.
  • March 8, London: The BMJ Awards judging. Cancer Care Team of the Year category.
  • March 14, San Antonio: 2016 Parenteral Drug Association Annual Meeting. Keynote.
  • March 15, Austin: Dell’s Healthcare Think Tank. Panel.
  • March 24:  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Lecture.
  • March 29, Cambridge, MA: New England HIMSS regional meeting. Speaker. Open to the public; discount or free to SPM members.
  • April 1-2, DC: FHIR Code-a-thon. Part of 2016 Health Data Palooza.
  • April 4-7, London: Private event.
  • April 13, Ontario: eHealth Centre of Excellence, Partnerships in eHealth. Keynote.
  • May 1, Cambridge: MIT Hacking Medicine 2016. Judge
  • May 3, Boston: NEHI One Health Care Summit. Featured speakers Eric Dishman and Susannah Fox. Attendee.
  • May 8-10, D.C.: Health Datapalooza. Attendee.
  • May 11, Sacramento: Indian Health Services California Providers’ Best Practices & GPRA Measures Continuing Medical Education. Keynote.
  • May 12, Newport Beach, CA:  Compassionate Care Coalition of California 8th Annual Conference & Summit. “Ignite, Inspire, Innovate.  Taking Palliative Care to the Next Level.” Keynote.
  • May 18-19, SanDiego: Private event.
  • May 19-21, Grantsville, MD: Cinderblocks3. The Partnership with Patient Continues.  Speaker.
  • May 21, Webcast, live from Cinderblocks (above): IKF, Switzerland. Lecture and e-patient interviews.
  • June 2, Vic, Spain: 3rd University of Vic Health Meeting. Speaker.
  • June 3-5, Brussels: European Cancer Patient Coalition. Speaker.
  • June 10, VT:  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Communications & Marketing Team Retreat.Speaker.
  • June 11-14, New Orleans: American Diabetes Association 76th Scientific Sessions. Consultant to diaTribe.
  • June 14, Shanghai, via video: Private event. Speaker.
  • June 22, Boston: Harvard Medical School: Rogue Therapeutics. Closing Keynote.
  • June 26-29, Geneva Switzerland: Nursing Informatics 2016 Congress. Opening keynote – open to the public!
    • June 27: Health Information Technologies for Geriatrics: The Big Picture.Panelist.
  • June 28, Europe: Private event. Keynote.
  • July 14-15, D.C.: Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Steering Committee.  Advisory.
  • July 26, Southeast: Private event. Keynote.
  • August 8, Concord, NH: Foundation for Healthy Communities. Keynote speaker.
  • August 14, San Diego: AADE16 Pre-Diabetes Day (American Association of Diabetes Educators annual meeting)
    • Brief statement at end of Donna Ryan’s keynote
    • Panelist presenting on e-patient communities, 9:15
  • August 17-19, Orlando: IEEE EBMC ’16. The Quantified Self: Visions for the next decade of persistent physiological monitoring.
    • 8/18, 1:30 pm: panel presentation: “I Barely Survived Cancer and Nobody Knows Why”
    • 8/19, 8 am: session on e-health papers – co-chair
  • August 25, Boothbay Harbor, ME: Boothbay Region Health Center. Speaking, participating
  • September 3, Switzerland: Hirslanden National Academy, private event. Speaker.
  • September 13, Columbus OH: Aultman Hospital. Independent Hospital Network Board Retreat. Speaker.
  • September 20, Bretton Woods, NH:  New Hampshire Hospital Association. Speaker.
  • September 20, 8:30 pm ET: guest on the weekly #HCLDR (Health Care Leaders) Twitter chat! 
  • September 21, Boston: HealthXL Global Gathering: Behavior Change, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Engagement. Speaker.
  • September 25-28, Santa Clara: Health 2.0 10th Annual Conference. Participant in patient awards.
  • September 29, virtual speech, Spain.  Participant.
  • September 30, Newton, MA: 9th Annual Kidney Cancer Symposium. Participant.
  • October 18-19, San Diego: MedCity News. Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement. Keynote.
  • November 2, Denver: Colorado Hospital Association. Keynote speaker.
  • November 15, Chicago: Private event. Keynote.
  • November 17-18, Amersfoort, NL: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. 50th Conference of the Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Speaker.
  • November 23, via webcast: University of Southern California. Lecture.
  • November 23-27: Thanksgiving holiday.
  • November 28-29, Chicago: Insight Night at RSNA. Speaker.
  • December 1: Private advisory meeting.
  • December 6-7, Washington D.C.: National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) meeting (project of AHRQ). Participant.
  • December 6, Washington D.C.: Leapfrog Group Annual Meeting. Speaker.
  • December 12, Washington D.C.: RTI PCOR advisory meeting. Participant.

Past events – 2017

    • January 6, Las Vegas: Digital Health Summit at CES: “Confronting the Sleep Epidemic Head-on.” Speaker and panelist.
    • January 9, webcast: Rotman School of Management. Lecture.
    • January 27, Orlando: Society for Simulation in Healthcare – “Patients: The Heart of Simulation” Research Summit. Opening keynote.
    • January 28, Dallas: Commission for Case Manager Certification New World Symposium. Final day’s keynote.
    • January 31, NH: Dartmouth Giesel School of Medicine. Guest lecture.
    • February 19-22, Orlando: HIMSS 2017
      • Monday 2/20 1:00pm: Dell Meetup at the Tweetup, Healthcare Consumerism. Participant.
      • Monday 2/20 4:00pm: Connected Health forum in the Philips Booth. Speaker.
      • Interoperability Showcase. Participant.

Past events – 2018

Past events – 2019

Past events – 2020

  • January 23, Cleveland: The IHE North American Connectathon. Two panels.
  • February 10-11, DC: Health Datapalooza. Patient participant.
  • February 21, New York: Video interview (private production)
  • March 6, Boston: 12th Annual Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center Kidney Cancer Symposium. Participant.

— And then … lockdown —

Past events – 2021

Past events – 2022

  • January 18-21, virtual: HL7 FHIR Work Group Meeting. Patient Empowerment co-chair.
  • February 2: “Digital Health erfolgreich umsetzen” (Implementing digital health successfully) for IKF. Lecture.
  • March 7: Digital health podcast recording. Buoy Health.
  • March 9: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – digital health web interview recording.
  • March 29, virtual: National Network of Libraries of Medicine  conference “Advancing Engagement through Research: New Trends and Opportunities.” Keynote.
  • April 19: “Promoting Patient Engagement through Clinical Trials.” Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences Library. Free, open to public.
  • April 26, virtual: “We Perform Better When We’re Informed Better: Partnering with Informed Patients.”  Pediatric Grand Rounds on participatory medicine. (Client is confidential.)
  • May 6, Switzerland (virtual): e-Patients, Patient Engagement & Participatory Medicine, Personal Health Data Rights. IKF e-health course.
  • May 10-11, Grantsville, Maryland: Cinderblocks, Regina Holliday’s annual grass roots patient gathering. Workshop leader.
  • May 19, Berlin: Opening keynote – BMC (German Managed Care Association).
  • June 6, Cleveland: FHIR DevDays. Patient Track lead.
  • June 16, virtual: Dysautonomia International Tenth Annual Conference. Keynote (see blog post with video).
  • August 20-22, Seattle: NRC Health Symposium. Keynote.
  • August 25, mid-Atlantic: Private corporate event. Opening keynote.
  • September 17-23, Baltimore: HL7 FHIR Work Group Meeting. Participant
  • October 11, DC: CARIN Alliance.
  • October 18, Philadelphia: Redox Customer Connect. Opening keynote.
  • October 26, virtual: FHIR Canada. Opening keynote.