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Jun 10

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Doctors 2.0 and You: Key Messages in the “From Doctor to Futurist” Keynote

Doctors 2.0 and You was an amazing event again! It collects all the experts, doctors, e-patients, pharma companies and start-ups in this area.

I presented Webicina.com on the first day and gave the closing keynote on the second day entitled “From Doctor to Futurist”. Some of my key points:

  • The future of healthcare will be based on patients who will be able to measure anything about themselves from blood count to ECG and even genomic data.
  • We must prepare students and medical professionals for this digital world. This is why I launched a university course, an e-learning platform and wrote a book.
  • My role as a medical futurist is to close the gap between e-patients and their not that web-savvy doctors; as well as between digital technologies and everyday medicine.
  • Every medical student in the world must read e-Patient Dave’s book!

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I had a chance to wear the Google Glass. It's great but you expect more based on the promotional videos.

I had a chance to wear the Google Glass. It’s great but you expect more based on the promotional videos.

Dr. Laurent Alexandre wrote a section about my work in digital health in his book.

Dr. Laurent Alexandre wrote a section about my work in digital health in his book.

Tiantian Li, the managing director of the world's largest medical community site of 2 million doctors in China, gave me a gift.

Tiantian Li, the managing director of the world’s largest medical community site of 2 million doctors in China, gave me a gift.

I gave a try to HapiFork that buzzes if you eat too fast.

I gave a try to HapiFork that buzzes if you eat too fast.

See you next year in Paris!

 

 

 

 

Jun 5

Going to Paris Again: Doctors 2.0 And You!

It’s a great pleasure to attend the best medical social media conference of the year again. Doctors 2.0 And You will be full of rockstars of this field. Just like the last two years, I will be a keynote speaker and this time the title of my talk will be “From Doctor to Futurist” telling my own story and showing some great examples of how digital technologies can be implemented into everyday healthcare.

On the first day, I’ll also give a presentation about Webicina.com. See you in Paris!

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Apr 25

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My Master Class at Medicine X of Stanford: Teaching Social Media in the Health Sciences

It’s an honor to be invited to do a master class at the upcoming Medicine X conference taking place at Stanford University.  I will conduct a 90-minute Master Class on teaching social media in the health sciences. The final curriculum will be shaped by the learners themselves through their course applications, but his master class tentatively includes:

  • Strategies to create a curriculum for teaching students and medical professionals about disruptive technologies and social media.
  • Introducing online learning platforms as part of an official course curriculum.
  • Determining which online platform is most used by students and creating a parallel online curriculum.
  • Incorporating interactive content to leverage the power of social media in the classroom.

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See you there!

 

Apr 23

TEDxNijmegen: Recap with Photos

I thought I would share a few photos and feedback about the recent TEDxNijmegen event where I talked about crowdsourcing in medicine through social media.

The series of talks was amazing, the audience was responsive and open-minded and we all left Nijmegen with a great memory.

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You know it’s going to be a great event when the speakers’ dinner takes place on the stage.

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I met the surprise speaker of the event, E-patient Dave, who showed me his book and my tweet on the back cover.

You would never expect to see a Formula-1 car at a TEDx event.

You would never expect to see a Formula-1 car at a TEDx event.

Moreover, you would never expect to see a little robot sitting in a Formula-1 car at a TEDx event.

Moreover, you would never expect to see a little robot sitting in a Formula-1 car at a TEDx event.

 

 

 

 

Mar 12

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The Rockstars of Medicine 2.0 Will Meet in Paris!

‎Doctors 2.0 & You is far the best conference every year in the health/medicine 2.0 space. I’m not saying this because last year I proposed my fiancée a few hours after my keynote, but because that is the most informative, multi-national (literally) and content-rich conference every single year.

Web-savvy medical professionals, real e-patients, pharma companies, startups and even policy makers will present their mission, findings and plans to make healthcare better by using social media and digital technologies.

It takes place in the beautiful city of Paris! I hope to see you all there this June!

Here are details about early bird tickets.

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My keynote speech last year (I’m preparing something really different this year too):

 

 

Mar 5

TEDxNijmegen Soon!

I got an invitation to give a talk at TEDxNijmegen this April and I’m working on a brand new story. I cannot wait to be there!

On the April 8th Nijmegen will host its first ever TEDx event. It will take place in the City Theatre (Stadsschouwburg) at Keizer Karel Plein, Nijmegen from 9:00 till 18:00.

TEDxNijmegen is about life. It’s about what people encounter from conception until old age. About health and illness, caring and being cared for. It is about the race from the age of 0 to 110. Some 20 (inter)national speakers will take the spotlight.

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Feb 11

FutureMed 6: Computer History Museum

Here is the last day of FutureMed, I hope you enjoyed my posts about it, I certainly enjoyed the course itself.

Also see Medgadget and the Futuremed Magazine for recaps. And here is day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 and day 5.

Erik Rassmussen talked about real global health problems.

Jose Gomez described new medical technologies in developing countries.

And the special event took place in the Computer History Museum.

A Google car doing pictures for Street View.

A Google car doing pictures for Street View.

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To sum it up this course brought an amazing line of speakers showing great content. Despite the constant problems with AV and the lack of social media among the topics, this is a perfect course for those being interested in the future of medicine and global trends.

Feb 10

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FutureMed Day 5: Speaking at FutureMed

On day 5 of FutureMed, I got a chance to present my story about crowdsourcing medicine through social media.

Also see Medgadget and the Futuremed Magazine for recaps. And here is day 1, day 2, day 3 and day 4. Here are some interesting insights.

Linda Stone warned us that if we use digital technologies too much, it might lead to the so-called e-mail apnea. She was right, with a better posture, we can breathe easily. She also said the quantified self technology serves as a prosthetic for feelings.

There are now tablets that cost 35 USD!

The demonstration of Google Glasses was great, but when the speaker wanted to show how it can show him search results by voice control, he only said right, now he can see the results. It is going to be an open platform that can be easily programmed. I can imagine travel agents in the future who will be paid to stream what they see in nice locations; or even security problems when someone stream what they see by chance.

The MIT lab presented EyeNetra that could serve billions of people in eye care. There are cameras that can record the movement of light in slow motion. 1 second of recording takes 1 petabyte of data.

The e-patient panel featured the amazing Crohnology.

I used Anatomage, a virtual dissection table.

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Lucien Engelen talked about his innovation centre and the hospital in the Netherlands that was the first one in Europe to be discovered by Google Street View. He also announced that Daniel Kraft, Jack Andraka and I would speak at the upcoming TEDxNijmegen.

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Then I gave a talk about how I’ve been using social media channels for crowdsourcing medicine, building Webicina and teaching medical students about social media.

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Finally, we received our certification of finishing FutureMed in the NASA Exploration Center.

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Feb 10

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FutureMed Day 4: Security in Medicine and Ray Kurzweil

On day 4 of FutureMed, we visited companies in the Bay area and listened to Ray Kurzweil presenting about the future.

Also see Medgadget and the Futuremed Magazine for recaps. And here is day 1, day 2 and day 3.

We visited Genentech where they told us they work with 3,5 million compounds and moved the focus towards small molecules in 2005. I loved the fact that the building is on DNA way. During a presentation, we could watch the process of designing small molecules with software solutions in 3D.

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Then we visited Palantir and heard about their data-driven solutions.

Marc Goodman talked about security in medicine and healthcare in this Internet-based world. He mentioned how hackers might get access to medical devices or even pacemakers; genetic data and other health records. He used the expression “wireless body area network”.

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At IDEO, workshops were organized and we learnt the process of designing healthcare innovations and had a great lunch in Palo Alto.

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When we got back to the campus, Ray Kurzweil, world-famous futurist gave a presentation. Christian Assad wrote a great compilation of this presentation in the FutureMed Magazine. Later on, Esther Dyson, David Shaywitz and Jeremy Stone gave suggestions about healthcare entrepreneurship as a panel.

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Watch Ray Kurzweil’s recent video, the Transcendent Men:

Feb 9

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FutureMed Day 3: Personalized Medicine and Design in Healthcare

Day 3 of FutureMed and this long day was centered around personalized genomics/medicine, design in healthcare and the future of medical intervention.

Also see Medgadget and the Futuremed Magazine for recaps. And here is day 1 and day 2.

  • David Ewing Duncan quantifies himself and has had 22 500 genetic traits analyzed, 22 hours of brain MRI, and over clinical 1000 tests. He used the expression environgenomics for describing the importance of the environmental factors in developing diseases. He also had an experiment when his brain was analyzed with MRI and looked for signs of excitement while watching different types of films. In the future, we might be able to get film recommendations based on our brain MRI.
  • Nic Volker was the first boy to be saved because of next generation sequencing.
  • In 2014, cost of whole genome sequencing will be the same as an X-Ray.
  • Biocurious and iGEM bring biotechnology to very young students around the world. Procedures in molecular biology that have been used by researchers could be used by students now.
  • Beers that fight cancer or contain caffeine can be brewed with genetically modified yeast species.
  • Microbes can create circuits by producing silicon on a Petri dish.
  • Andrew Hessel: The Beijing Genome Institute sequences more genomes than all the other centers around the world together.
  • Biotech is going to be the new IT industry.
  • If cells are cell phones, viruses are the applications.
  • Atul Butte: With Gene Expression Omnibus, students can download genetic data as they download music from iTunes. (video below)
  • Ajay Verma said that we should be prepared for EEG controlled games (Star Wars Force Trainer).
  • Catherine Mohr talked about surgical robots.
Simple suggestions about controlling aging.

Simple suggestions about controlling aging.

Surgical workshop (I haven't practiced that since the first years of medschool).

Surgical workshop (I haven’t practiced that since the first years of medical school).

Music played on a smartphone can induce electronically the leg of a cockroach therefore it dances.

Music played on a smartphone can induce dancing movements electronically on the leg of a cockroach. Biohacking!

Finally, Lucien Engelen arrived.

Finally, Lucien Engelen arrived.

Data storage of the Apollo program in an old McDonald's on this campus.

Data storage of the Apollo program in an old McDonald’s on this campus.

 

 

 

 

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