If you can, please come to the Netherlands in May for this conference. It’s a big deal for me in more ways than one: it’s in Maastricht, the city where the European Union was formed in 1993 and the city where I gave my TED Talk in 2011. Thirteen years ago – and boy has a lot happened since then!
New hashtag: #PatientsUseAI!
These are exciting times for patient empowerment and all of medicine! Knowledge is power and generative A.I. is causing an explosion in it. Patients and families are finding that AI tools like GPT-4, Claude.ai and Gemini can profoundly improve their ability to be informed, empowered, and engaged in their care. Participatory medicine!
The other day Grace Cordovano, the extraordinary board-certified patient advocate, spoke a sentence that opened new worlds: “People need to realize: Patients are end users of AI.” Presto: new hashtag #PatientsUseAI, and an awareness campaign that’s starting right now.
Look at all the ways we’re already using AI to get work done:
[Read more…]“The AI Revolution in Medicine”: best book by far on AI in healthcare
I’ve been learning everything I can about what AI will do to help healthcare achieve its potential, and especially how it will help e-patients be stronger contributors. The game’s not over (this game will never be over) but so far, this is the book! The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.
[Read more…]Join my live Q&A on “Patient Design” with The Medical Futurist – Tuesday noon ET
This is going to be fun: a live, unscripted, free-for-all “ask me anything” YouTube event on the subject of Patient Design. At noon ET on Tuesday, March 21, just go here. Or go there now and click the little “Notify me” button at bottom left. There’s no registration required, but you can sign up here on EventBrite for reminders.
The host is “The Medical Futurist,” Bertalan Meskó, in Budapest. I’ve had a long history of collaborating with “Berci” (his nickname); my first blog post about him was 13 years ago yesterday, he endorsed my 2013 book Let Patients Help, and I’ve lectured at his course at Semelweiss University.
[Read more…]My family’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because of, as Pro Publica puts it, “easy money and a lack of regulation.” My first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales growth than in caring:
- “For-profit hospice is a vast crime scene, and private equity is holding the knife”
- Healthcare’s moral crime scene, part 2: private equity takes over a nursing home
As many of you know, my mother died in October. What we haven’t disclosed until now is that it happened in horror story #3: she passed after a single week of “respite care” provided by the local outlet of a growing chain of assisted living facilities.
[Read more…]Hello again!
I’ll spare you the details :-) but it appears the reason you haven’t gotten any emails from me in a while is that things got broken! I’ll be in touch soon to catch up.
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