Anna Reisman's Atlantic Health piece, Should Doctors Write About Patients, has received lots of dialog. Writing about patients is not new. What’s new is the capacity of every doctor to build an audience and write about patients. Publishing has become democratized. From constrained micromedia to traditional long-form, every doctor has the means of sharing their ... Continue Reading about When Doctors Write About Patients
How Not to be Irrelevant in Health Care
Wow. I spent the afternoon interviewing Dr. Eric Topol, the Original Dean of Digital Medicine. There’s no one who has better defined the the radical transformation currently underway in medicine. And if you do anything related to medicine and you haven’t read The Creative Destruction of Medicine or The Patient Will See You Now, consider yourself on the fast track ... Continue Reading about How Not to be Irrelevant in Health Care
Announcing Medicine in the Digital Age on edX
I’m thrilled to announce Medicine in the Digital Age, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) focusing on health care's analog-digital shift. Over the past several months I’ve been working closely with my Rice University collaborator, Dr. Kirsten Ostherr, to coordinate and shape this unique online course. Over 4 weeks, Medicine in the Digital Age will map out out the ... Continue Reading about Announcing Medicine in the Digital Age on edX
Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum
Last evening I followed a live Twitter event that Baylor Scott and White Health conducted around a heart transplant. You can see the stream at #HeartTXLive. Rethinking live events in health care While I’ve not been a fan of live Twitter events, this one made me think. Social health events once conceived in dry, 3rd person narrative have evolved. High def images ... Continue Reading about Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum
The Original Measles Storyteller – Paul Offit
The measles story is amazing. A deadly disease once in check brought back to life by vaccine fear. Every media outlet in the world is desperate to tell the story. Before measles was newsworthy, the original storyteller was Dr. Paul Offit. He was evangelizing when it wasn’t popular. And he realized his share of traffic. But it wasn’t the kind of attention any ... Continue Reading about The Original Measles Storyteller – Paul Offit
Why Health Care Isn’t More Like Starbucks (yet)
Making health care feel like buying a latte or catching an Uber ride is our new obsession. This week Forbes asked why health care cannot be more like Starbucks. In a world buzzing with health precision, it’s a reasonable question. When I think about why my clinic can’t run like a Starbuck’s drive through, I look to Clayton Christiansen and Jason Hwang. Their ... Continue Reading about Why Health Care Isn’t More Like Starbucks (yet)