If you read nothing else this week it would be Nick Bilton’s inexplicable piece in The New York Times. His loose attempt to draw parallels between the effects of health apps and cigarettes amounted to nothing short of professional suicide. And the fact that his source was Joseph Mercola should serve as an embarrassment to anyone even remotely associated with The New ... Continue Reading about The New York Times’ Digital Health Humiliation
6 Digital Health Power Curators
Increasingly, my life is about finding signal. Noise grows by the day. So who I listen to has become important. Tuning for value has become a new preoccupation. So I thought I'd share a few of the people who do a brilliant job creating a clean, valuable signal for me. This is not a 'best of' list, but rather a sampling of individuals who do a great job of ... Continue Reading about 6 Digital Health Power Curators
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
Book Notes: The Creative Destruction of Medicine
It's arrived: The Creative Destruction of Medicine – How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, Eric Topol’s prescient view of the near future of medicine. This book details how four areas of digital medicine – wireless sensors, genomics, imaging and health information – are about to undergo a super-convergence marking perhaps the most disruptive ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Creative Destruction of Medicine