Continuing my practice of “flipping” an event — posting what I hope to get across in advance in order to jump start the conversation — here is a preview for a panel set to take place on Oct. 23. My co-panelists (Iya Khalil, Deborah Kilpatrick, and Don Rucker) and I will talk about data as an engine […]
Blue Button
Blue Button’s North Star
Blue Button is a Trojan horse for culture change in the American health care system. It places power in the hands of patients and whets the data appetites of millions of Americans and the companies who would like to serve them. If you’ve never heard of Blue Button, here’s a quick overview: The federal government […]
A health & technology pioneer learns that joy, even in illness, doesn’t have an age limit
The following is a cross-post from the Atlas of Caregiving blog, which is featuring a new series of “caring conversations” with people who connect their professional experience to their caregiving experience. Susannah Fox advises companies and nonprofits on how to navigate the intersection of health and technology. She recently served as the Chief Technology Officer […]
Access to data = access to power
Data about your health and that of your community can empower you to make — or demand — changes. When there are gaps in the record or the data don’t exist, participatory data collection empowers people to contribute to the public conversation. Access to data is access to power. On November 17-19, 2017, Data for […]
The White House Conference on Aging
The White House Conference on Aging only happens once every ten years — and it’s happening tomorrow. The program begins at 10 a.m. ET on Monday, July 13, and will be livestreamed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/live I’ll be on a panel in the late afternoon talking about technology and the future of aging, directly after Tim Brown and Barbara Beskind discuss […]
Health data’s adolescence
I wrote a guest post for the Health Data Consortium — here’s the start of it: This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal to create what we now call the Web, the visual, hypertext organizing system which overlays the internet. The pace of internet adoption gathered speed once people could more intuitively […]
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