PATIENTS INCLUDED: A CHARTER FOR CONFERENCES

Very proud to be one of the authors of the Patients Included charter (v1.0 in May 2015). This movement was ignited by Lucien Engelen in a brilliant blog in 2012, and through the miracles of social media, it was joined by many – people and organisations alike.

The Richest Man In American Medicine Seeks To Forge A ‘Cognitive Revolution’

July, 14, 2014 by and on Real Leaders

Digital Health should aim to enhance cognition, not to void doctor patient relationship. Real Leaders bring us an interview with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and his quest to improve healthcare. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is converted to digital, but he deeply values the human side of healthcare – “I look upon the human-patient relationship like a priest-parish relationship. I don’t think there will ever or should there ever be the absence of human-human interaction.”

Digital Health’s Growing Conundrum: The Ethics of Everything

April 7th, 2015 by Sue Montgomery, RN, BSN, CHPN, on nuviun

Black or white is a luxury, and gray is increasingly the color of the day when it comes to our rapid advances in medicine and healthcare.

How the NHS can become a Silicon Valley for health

April, 24, 2015 by Michael Rundle, on wired.co.uk

Tony Young, the new NHS clinical director for innovation, claims that the NHS can become the a Silicon Valley for health care. How? Via “testing beds”, a National Innovation Accelerator, a more cheering up attitude, funding and prizes. Not at last, there will be “MedTech innovation briefings”. Whatever they will actually mean.

Residents at UCLA-Kern Medical Center  get into music and lyrics. (more…)

Karen

Your personal life coach app, a new digital blur from Blast Theory. Beware, she might get too friendly…