Democratizing Healthcare
Taking a break from virus news … OMG, yesterday long-time friend Silja Chouquet in Basel shared this TEDx Talk with me: Martin Inderbitzin. 19 minutes.
I’m declaring him my newfound Swiss cousin. Now I have to go find him. (I already went to the website he started … I’ll leave that to you, if you want.) … ah, @MarBitz on Twitter. And he started My Survival Story.
Anyone who’s worked with me in the past eight years has gotten to know Kristin Gallant, the terrific assistant who’s helped with all my administrative and customer service work since 2013. With a workload that’s ranged as high as seventeen speaking events in a month, she’s been rock solid, indispensable.
Our working relationship has also been a perfect example of flexible hours, virtual office, apps, and “cloud everything,” enabling each of us to stay on top of things regardless of which time zone I was in. A professional executive assistant and bookkeeper before we met, she adapted hours as her growing kids’ school hours changed, often screen-sharing as we juggled tasks, client communication, and administrative housekeeping. And as a “cancer kicker” herself, she’s understood exactly what this work is about.
[Read more…]Continuing the series started Friday – fourteen foundation truths to set the stage for the upcoming book Superpatients: Patients who extend science when medicine’s out of answers.
A frequent thread in superpatient (and e-patient) stories is when a doctor gives outdated advice about what information deserves our attention. Today’s principle builds on Principle 3, “It’s a myth that doctors can be counted on to know what’s dependable and nobody else can be.” Here’s #5:
The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. I’ll copy/paste here from the conference’s Patient Innovator Track page:
The following applicants have been invited to present their achievement on Wednesday, November 20: [Alphabetically by presenter’s name]
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Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019: I’m at the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network’s #MCSMN annual conference, where at 4 pm CT I’ll participate in this debate:
[Read more…]Resolved: Facebook’s disregard for user privacy should compel responsible hospitals to abandon the platform.
On Friday I wrote here about the ten part blog series I recently did on Tincture, about why I believe the HL7 FHIR standard promises to be so important in achieving the long-felt need for patients to have access to every bit of their health data … to “let patients help” improve care, as my book and TED Talk have said for YEARS. But last fall I gave a talk that expressed my impatience. The title: