This article was first published on Strata. By Bonnie Feldman (@DrBonnie360) and Ellen M. Martin Most healthcare clinicians don’t often think about donating or sharing data. Yet, after hearing Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks talk about involving citizens and patients in the field of genetic research at StrataRx 2012, I was curious to learn more. McKinsey points out...
Discussing healthcare in South Africa usually ends up in a heated conversation. It is generally divided into two area’s: private and public sector. Those exposed to private sector complain about exorbitant fees, and those in the public sector complain about the lack of staff, equipment and patient volume overload which then results in ridiculously long...
Accenture’s recent Digital Consumer Tech Survey 2014 revealed a growing interest in wearable technology. That’s endorsed by the plethora of new wearable devices on show at this year’s CES. Typical are smart watches and also wearable smart glasses – the pioneer here, of course, being Google Glass. Glasses are particularly interesting to us here at...
Vandrico is an unbiased 3rd party verifier and specialized R&D firm that investigates new technology to help businesses identify the true players on the map. It recently released a database composed of over 118 wearable devices. The site is interactive, enabling researchers to see how many devices have been designed for the chest versus the...
MySugr, a start up from Austria, has just announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount from Berlin-based accelerator XLHealth. XLHealth is the venture vehicle of the CEO of CompuGroup Medical, the European market leader in physician IT software. The startup currently offers two apps, Companion and Junior, that aim to help diabetics track their...
The last few weeks have been exceedingly busy as we finalised the Wellthcare Manifesto, interviewed more Wellth Creators, and started work on what a meeting on ‘health creation’ might look like. One question has surfaced a few times and I wanted to reflect on it here: “How is Wellthcare different to public health?” Public health,...
A friend sent me a podcast from RadioLab a few weeks ago. The topic was ‘black boxes’ and since he knew I was an anesthesiologist in the making, he thought I would find this one particularly interesting. I did. RadioLab Black Box Podcast How scientists and physicians have managed to put people to sleep or...
Since the inception of Health 2.0 by co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0 local chapters have popped up all over the world. The chapters differ in location and objective, yet all provide networking opportunities and stimulating discussions for people involved or interested in how technology can be leveraged to systemically affect change in...
MedCrunch had the pleasure to speak to Kerri Sparling and Marie Ennis both empowered and vocal epatients and active members of the Doctors 2.0 & You community. MC: Please give us three sentences about yourself in the context of health. Kerri: My name is Kerri Sparling, and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the...
Google just unveiled its internal meeting system as an actual product called “Chromebox”. It says “for meetings” on the site but actually this could be an easy to setup and probably easy to use infrastructure physicians could use to interact with chronic patients in their homes. It works with basically any device, be it...
With all the medical research we do, it’s easy to lose sight of what the end goal should be: to save lives. Whether saving lives is measured in the form of years of potential lives lost, disability-adjusted life years, or quality-adjusted life years, the outcome should make a meaningful difference to peoples’ lifespan. Why is...
Usually, when you go to business conferences you meet people who work in an area that aligns with the event’s purpose. In healthcare, for example, you typically attend a large congress, like the ASCO. There you meet physicians discussing the newest research and mingling with pharma and other industry partners. DLD, however, is different. In...
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