Toward a New Science of Patient Engagement
Here it is, all in one picture: the future of healthcare. At least a lot of it.
These are the topics Lucien Engelen has been talking about, the concepts he’s been developing, since arriving at Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC) in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. You MUST pay attention to what he’s thinking about, because it’s coming, and most people don’t know it yet. So study that picture.
As healthcare progresses, my business is changing: new speech topics, and more advisory projects. This is a two-part video of a new speech last month, at the New England chapter of HIMSS (the big health IT systems society). Finally clients are agreeing that there’s more to talk about than “Dave’s scary cancer story” – most of this speech is information that didn’t exist when I started giving speeches. Predictions are coming true, so new imperatives emerge.
The videos: (Email subscribers, if you can’t see the videos, click the headline to come online.)
One of the major enablers of the e-patient movement is the internet. In addition to serving as a vast widely-accessible library, it provides “information capillaries” that make it possible for vital information to flow to the point of need – without centralized control. My life is just one of many that’s been saved by this radical change in what’s possible.
Another mechanism is that the Web has made possible a truly incredible collection of tools by which we can assemble combinations of things that we find useful – again, without any centralized control. One example of this is MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses), which I’ll be writing about more soon: the content for a course is made available to anyone who has internet access, which is enormously different from requiring that someone travel to the school.
I’m starting 2016 with a series of posts that lay out “the arriving future” of health and care. Previous entries:
Technological advances are making new things possible, and our deepening conception of what medicine is about (and how best to achieve care) are changing our thinking about the nature of the work. We are truly shifting from “the doctor knows everything that needs to be known” to patients as potentially capable partners.
This is real culture change. Predictably, the establishment fights back: some people don’t believe it, some just don’t like change (especially change in their work), and some don’t like what they perceive to be a challenge to their authority.
Tuesday night in Chicago I gave a 28 minute talk for Philips customers at the huge (56,000 people) radiology conference, RSNA. The leading-edge social media guy at Philips, Noah Harpster (@PhilipsLiveFrom), broadcast it live using the free Periscope live-streaming app (owned by Twitter), and boom, here’s the archive. Unpolished, raw, live. Free. (Email subscribers, if you can’t see the videos below, click here to view the post online.)
This is the first time I’ve spoke to radiologists. This talk has very little about my cancer story, and a lot about the impact on professionals of two things:
I also pulled out some props – including a 3D printout I had done locally of my lungs (my bronchi and metastases). I told you that when things digitize, new stuff becomes possible.
Everyone in the “health 2.0” world knows that the Health 2.0 conference is the conference in the health 2.0 world. It’s where everybody has to be, if they want to be known in that high-powered innovator world. Proof got even deeper when, a couple of years ago, they shifted venue from downtown San Francisco to the belly of the beast: Silicon Valley.
Less well known is that Health 2.0 has a number of outlying communities, and one is in Sacramento, the state capital. Next month I’ll be speaking there, at a free event open to the public.
It’s 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Hacker Lab, 1715 I Street. Register here! And here’s the Health 2.0 Sacramento site. Tentative agenda:
6:30 – 7:15 Mingling and Munchies
7:15 Kickoff
7:30-8:15 e-Patient Dave (including time for Q&A)
8:15-8:30 Mingling
A special thanks to one of my earliest Twitter buddies, @GoodLaura – Laura Good – who, it happens, is a startup geek in that very area and involved with Health 2.0. My first private twitter messages with Laura were in 2009! (If you must know, it was about some typesetting arcana that were raising puzzles in Microsoft Word.) How sweet it is to cross paths IRL with long-time online peeps!