A new vision of telehealth: the “epital”– getting the care you need while...
Thanks to Torben Rügge of Cure-It for this tip. We met at the Karolinska Institute event I wrote about recently. People in medicine are talking endlessly these days about patient-centered care. (Some...
View ArticleExponential technology is reaching medicine. No, really.
I’m going to do something unusual (for me) – drop a video in here and not try to explain much about it. It’s about the future but don’t have any particular prediction, except that things are going to...
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New BMJ article: “From patient centred to people powered: autonomy on the rise”
I’m thrilled to say that the BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, has just released a new article I wrote about the “social movement” aspect of our work, including the rationale for listening to...
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Washington Post: “How is the doctor-patient relationship changing? It’s going...
It appears the Washington Post is getting seriously interested in both the value of, and the consumer perspective on, health IT. This is a good thing, because (a) the whole purpose of healthcare is to...
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The arriving future of tech in health(care): Lucien Engelen on LinkedIn
Radboud @REshape’s Twitter avatar This is going to be a fascinating year, with a mix of social and technological change. On Saturday I started the year with The future of caring: careful, kind,...
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“Knowledge is Power. Power to the people.” (Guest post for Philips Healthcare)
For healthcare to achieve its best, empower the patient and family. Here’s a composite of four quote graphics Philips tweeted yesterday for World Cancer Day: I’ve had the good fortune to cross paths...
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A MOOC about social media in healthcare: opportunities & challenges
This post is about a specific course, the concept behind its technology, and what it means for the future of learning. For people who know about MOOCs this will be old news; for people who don’t, I...
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“When assets digitize, things change fast”: the #OpenAPS do-it-yourself pancreas
Click image to watch video on the O’Reilly site For some reason I’ve spoken about this a lot in speeches for more than a year but I haven’t blogged about it. The time has come. One of my sayings in Let...
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Understand the Blockchain in Two Minutes: Institute For The Future
If this is the first time you’ve heard of blockchain, remember it. If you’re like me, this will be puzzling and maybe a little bit unsettling, because people are saying it’s going to change the world,...
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#2016ADA day 1: incredible interview with “artificial pancreas” creators Dana...
If you can’t see the video above, click to watch it on Vimeo. One of my favorite sayings about digital health is “When assets digitize, things change fast.” The point is that once information (or...
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“Patients are the most underused resource”– Warner Slack, 1933-2018
Teaching at Harvard Medical School, 2012 (Photo: Paul Levy) A great, great man has passed away – a man I quote in half my speeches. I was privileged to know him enough to feel grateful about it, and...
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Book review: Augmented Health(care):the end of the beginning, by Lucien Engelen
This book is so good I don’t know where to start. Just read it. (There’s an introductory 20% discount on the e-book below.) Except – seriously – don’t read it if you demand a roadmap from here to the...
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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...
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The Medical Futurist Institute’s “Ask Me About Digital” badge & guide: making...
Editor’s note: I’m enthusiastic enough about this that it may sound like a commercial, but it’s not, except that it’s a great example of the change I want to see in the world! I have no stake in this,...
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NEHIMSS 2019: teaching Patient-Clinician Partnership with role play – and a song
Last month I once again had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Dr. Danny Sands, my PCP and co-author of Let Patients Help, this time at the New England HIMSS conference. Sharing our experiences...
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Call for entries: four patient innovators will win a trip to Amsterdam! Are...
Have you done something useful with your medical data to help manage your health? (Or someone else’s) Perhaps others would find it useful… either your exact tool or your general method! In any case,...
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FHIR #DevDays announces Patient Innovator Track finalists: two companies, two...
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...
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And the Patient Innovation winner is …
At the closing session Friday in Amsterdam, Grahame Grieve (“the father of FHIR”) hands a big check (so to speak) to patient John Keyes, creator of BloodNumbers. He created it for his personal use,...
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Tech-savvy patients: enter the “Patient Innovator Track” at FHIR DevDays!
Deadline Friday, May 22: See timeline below, learn more on the track page, then submit your application. Prizes, fame, community! Summary of timeline: Now through Friday, May 22: Fill out the form to...
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A glimpse of how FHIR works, for people who’ve fought to get their data
This is a quick post without a lot of explanation, targeted to perhaps a small number of people but perhaps also intriguing to a lot more. This image is a quick summary of the post below: [What’s...
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