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June 19, 2019 By kristin.gallant 2 Comments

NEHIMSS 2019: teaching Patient-Clinician Partnership with role play – and a song

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Filed Under: Events, Participatory Medicine, Patient-centered tech, Patient-centered thinking, public speaking 2 Comments

February 27, 2019 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Events and travels, winter 2019

It’s been a busy winter. Amid all the Facebook scandals and new government regulation work that’s going on, I thought I’d send an update on travels. Here are some visuals from a recent 17 day, six country, seven speech trip. (Fun facts: nine different hotels, and doing laundry in a Vienna laundromat that only takes instructions from a smartphone app.)

The background image is the HIMSS19 (health IT systems conference) logo repeated over and over and over and over, because that brutal exhausting conference is like that :-), and is the background of everything else.

Counterclockwise from left:

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Filed Under: Business of Patient Engagement, Events, Evolution, Health data, Health policy, Innovation, Leadership, Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, Patient-centered tech, public speaking, superpatients Tagged With: digital health, health data, health IT, public speaking Leave a Comment

November 26, 2018 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

“Superb! Superb! No other word for it. A knockout.” So, a winter sale!

A quick update on two aspects of my speaking business:

  • As the post title suggests, the “consultative speaking” approach I use continues to bring great results. (Yes, that’s what the client said.)
  • I’m offering a winter sale because I have more capacity in my calendar than usual in the coming months: half off my usual speaking fee for any bookings with contract signed by March 31. Bring it on! Use the contact page.

Recent speeches have been to audiences of software developers in Amsterdam, innovators (Exponential Medicine, San Diego), and a medication security company customer event then their internal company meeting (TraceLink, Chicago and Boston), and though the audiences were very different, each got very strong response, because every speech is carefully tailored to the sponsor’s needs.

My topics have expanded beyond the traditional “Dave’s cancer story” and “about e-patients.” In addition to custom requests, topics now include
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Filed Under: Medical Education, Patients as Consumers, public speaking, slidecasts Leave a Comment

June 1, 2018 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

A speech to remember: opening keynote at SIIM on “Inspiring Collaboration”


Twitter photo by Rasu Shrestha MD, MBA, Chief Innovation Officer at UPMC

There are lots of ways to measure the success of a speech. One is what the audience says on Twitter during the talk.  I’ll let them speak for themselves, below.

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Filed Under: Participatory Medicine, patient engagement, Patient-centered thinking, public speaking 3 Comments

April 12, 2018 By kristin.gallant Leave a Comment

A blast from the past, yet still fresh: “The Future of Patients”

I just ran across this classic video from WAY back – 2010, when the “e-Patient Connections” conference was the best thing on the circuit for our kind of thinking. Pharma marketing wizard Kevin Kruse created the script, and my chorus buddy Fred “Houston” Gallagher helped me record my part in his basement studio.

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March 28, 2018 By e-Patient Dave 6 Comments

Alumni club dinner: How e-patients can help healthcare achieve its potential

After eight years of speeches at conferences, I’ve observed that while medicine achieves incredible miracles that were impossible a generation ago – like saving my sorry life – it still falls short of potential more often than necessary. Lots of people write big fat books about it, but some problems don’t change, which raises the question: what can we tell consumers of the system, patients, that will help them get the best care when they’re in need?

So that’s a new series of speeches I’ll be doing, not just at big conferences but at local meetings in cities and towns, hospitals and community centers. These talks aren’t designed to change the healthcare system much; to the contrary, they’ll empower ordinary people who use the system to help the system do its best.

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Filed Under: Aging, Culture change, Health data, Innovation, patient engagement, Patients as Consumers, public speaking 6 Comments

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