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
Innovation Extinction
Each morning I scroll through Feedly looking at what’s new. I scan titles and ledes, deleting by the second until I find something transformative. It's information wackamole. And it results in innovation extinction. Increasingly, I'm underwhelmed by what I see. Nanosensors are a dime a dozen. Tattoos that miraculously detect blood glucose are almost yesterday's ... Continue Reading about Innovation Extinction
Announcing edX Medicine in the Digital Age
In 2012, the Medical Futures Lab offered Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence, a powerful 50,000 foot view of medicine and its radical disruption. The course was huge success and drew the attention of the social health community well beyond the confines of Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. I was thrilled to co-teach and co-create this course ... Continue Reading about Announcing edX Medicine in the Digital Age
App Crowdsources Assistance for Arrest Victims
If you need evidence that social networks can save lives, have a look at PulsePoint, a crowdsourcing app for connecting cardiac arrest victims with assistance. As reported in Re/code this morning, PulsePoint’s free app connects to local 911 call centers and alerts users when there is someone nearby in need of CPR. PulsePoint users get an alert the same time as ... Continue Reading about App Crowdsources Assistance for Arrest Victims
Medicine and The Access Effect
I overheard on Twitter last week that there are institutions that don’t allow the use of smart phones by physicians. It seemed hard to believe. Then it made sense. Because we’re in transition between siloed and networked worlds. Our siloed world supports encounters with the health system that are isolated, episodic and dependent upon the capacity of a single ... Continue Reading about Medicine and The Access Effect
Assumptions About Technology
This Apple holiday ad is remarkable. I began by seeing a boy disconnected and self-absorbed. I finished seeing a young creative committed to his own vision and art using nothing more than an iPhone. The ad challenges our dystopian assumptions about technology and its seemingly natural ability to disconnect us from one another. A digital tool’s capacity to ... Continue Reading about Assumptions About Technology