Democratizing Healthcare
Speaking isn’t just a business – it’s a vehicle for accomplishing what we really need: changing how people think … especially, empowering them to take effective action, to become involved in their health. Here’s a photo from a speech to radiologists, encouraging them to share images with patients:
This is my second speech to NNLM, the Network of the National Library of Medicine. As I said in announcing the first one,
[Read more…]Medical librarians (“medlibs”) have always been a magical resource, to me, because in addition to helping researchers and medicos, they can help ordinary people dig up information they need but don’t know where to find. It’s truly empowering.
I’m thrilled to report the third entry in my new blog series “We’re back!”, as the conference speaking business resumes. This one is a Web event – free to the public – hosted by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. See the Register Now link here.
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I’m thrilled to share the next great news in the recovery and reboot of the healthcare conference world. Two weeks ago I shared “We’re back!” about my next real-life keynote in Berlin – the first in two years. Now this, also the first in two years: FHIR DevDays, the twice-annual conference for software developers working on FHIR, the health data interoperability standard I’ve often blogged about. I’m equally thrilled to again be the DevDays Patient Track lead. It will be so good to see people again and enjoy the random encounters in hallways and pubs.
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I’m thrilled to share that the conference world is starting (slowly, carefully) to emerge from the shadows. My first conference travel engagement is in Berlin, for the German Managed Care association!
The conference is in German, but they’ve asked me to do the opening keynote – a conference position I always love!
Of course I travel carefully: I’m triple-vaxed, and regardless of regulations I mask up, I minimize my time indoors at airports, and I carry a pocket-sized meter to keep an eye on CO2 and filtration, on and off the plane.
I’m also thrilled at additional events are coming up (virtual and live), as society figures out how to emerge from the shadow of this monster pandemic. I’ll be blogging about those too in the coming weeks. So exciting!
Latest in my coronavirus series on facts and strategies for coping safely with COVID-19.
Check this out: a do-it-yourself air filter that I made myself for $100, vs the $300+ for commercial ones. People are making these “Corsi-Rosenthal boxes” and donating them to schoolrooms, churches, anyplace where people want to gather and you want the air as clean as is practical.
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