David Agus., professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California, and author of the book “The End of Illness”, shares his thoughts on the perception and future trends in the field of cancer.
ZDoggMD to Physicians: How to Say I’m Sorry
Zubin Damania -AKA ZDogg MD- shares his ideas on how medical education is not adequately capturing the shift in medicine -to focus on helping people rather than carrying out medical procedures- and how medical errors can be avoided through honest communication and understanding between physicians.
Leaders Designing on the Fly
John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, scientist, academic, and author. In this interview, John shares some of his views on leadership with the MedCrunch team.
Do We Really Need To Quantify Ourselves?
New fitness devices and apps are popping up everywhere these days and are particularly popular in the San Francisco Bay Area. The fuzz about Google Glass might be just the beginning of a new era. Yet a lot of us don’t really know what to do with it and how to make use...
Dante Murphy (Digitas Health): “Don’t Tell Italians Not To Eat Pasta”
Learn more about Dante Murphy and effective communication between patients and physicians!
Patient Engagement Through Self-Tracking
At TEDMED 2013, UCSF Chancellor (@UCSFChancellor) Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD discussed the need for patient engagement in our healthcare system.
Interview: Alexandra Drane On The Perfect Dialogue Between Physicians And Patients
Learn more about Alexandra Drane's mission is to use innovative technology to improve health and healthcare!
Three Quick and Underutilized Strategies for Physicians to Interact with Patients
Dr. David S. Sobel, Medical Director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. and Kaiser Permanente Northern California, shares his insights on how to become a better physician.
Gretchen Rubin at HxD: Resolutions to be Happy
Gretchen Rubin’s inspiring keynote at the HxD conference provided the audience with some helpful tips on how to be happy. We at MedCrunch are thrilled to share Gretchen’s happiness resolutions with you.
11 Rules to Live By
SXSW keynote speaker, Tina Roth-Eisenberg of Swiss Miss shares her 11 rules she lives by.
INTERVIEW: Jason Maude – Thoughts on Changing Healthcare
CEO and Co-founder Jason Maude tells his story of how Isabel Healthcare was set up after his daughter, Isabel, was misdiagnosed. In trying to make sense of the reasons why Isabel was misdiagnosed Jason was determined to find a way to to prevent misdiagnosis from happening to others.
INTERVIEW: Tim Ringrose of Doctors.net.uk
Dr. Tim Ringrose is the CEO of Doctors.net.uk the leading independent network of medical professionals in Europe. MedCrunch met up with Dr. Ringrose at the Health 2.0 Conference in Berlin. MedCrunch: Dr. Ringrose could you please explain to our readers what Doctors.net.uk is. Tim Ringrose: Doctors.net.uk is an online professional network, free for doctors to...
