Having survived a medical “death sentence” with the help of brilliant clinicians and treatments, I’m passionate about healthcare – its problems and its potential. Combining that with my experience as a business analyst and conference speaker, I’ve become an avid speaker on all aspects of healthcare transformation, internet-driven “Health 2.0,” and patient engagement.
Below are recordings of talks I’ve delivered. From different angles, each weaves in participatory medicine, high-tech thinking in healthcare, social media, patient engagement – and the joy of being alive.
- High Tech: “The Quantified Patient”
- Business / Social Media: “Engage Authentically”
- Policy / Health IT: “Give Us Our Data”
High Tech
Quantified Self, at Wired headquarters:
“The Quantified Patient”
December 7, 2009, San Francisco. “Quantified Self” is an eclectic group that could only exist in the Bay Area – infogeeks who are into measuring just about any aspect of their lives. QS evenings consist of an hour of elbow-rubbing then a series of short, rapid-fire talks; there’s no time to get bored, and you have to get to the point. The challenge here was to deliver a 45 minute talk in 15 minutes, covering all the bases coherently without the usual depth.
Business / Social Media
e-Patient Connections 2009:
“Authentic Value: Being Known in e-Patient Communities.”
October 2009, Philadelphia. The setting was a pharma industry marketing conference, the first to be focused on how industry can engage with activated patients, both to empower patients to have a more active role in their care and, in exchange, so vendors can leverage the sometimes enormous contributions patients can make to the industry’s knowledge.
The challenge, of course, is that due to many stories of manipulated data etc etc, many engaged patients don’t trust pharma. I drew on my experience in business and in social media to deliver my message: Engage Authentically. And it starts with
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Policy / Health IT
National eHealth Collaborative board meeting:
“Give Us Our Data”
National eHealth Collaborative board meeting:
“Give Us Our Data”
June 24, 2009, Washington. NeHC is an inspiring collaboration of non-profits in Washington devoted to improving healthcare through technology. This meeting occurred during the pivotal summer discussions about defining the “meaningful use” of health IT that’s required in order to qualify for the incentive payments offered in the ARRA/HITECH stimulus bill of 2009. I was invited to speak on the vital issue of giving patients access to their data.
This was an impromptu talk, which I put together while listening to the previous speakers. It’s an informal recording, not including my slides; it shows my speaking style but not my use of visual aids.