If you haven’t heard, OpenNotes has a killer panel submitted for the 2019 SXSW Interactive Festival: Transparency in Healthcare, One Note At a Time. For the uninformed, OpenNotes is an international movement advocating for the availability of medical providers’ notes to patients. The team at OpenNotes has pulled together University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s ... Continue Reading about 4 Reasons OpenNotes Will Rock SXSW Interactive in 2019
Health SXSW 2018 | The 33 charts Super Guide
Headed to SXSW 2018? I've done the heavy lifting by curating a super list of the best health care talks and events at SXSW interactive. Think of it as the ultimate guide for the health care power user. If you’ve not done Health SXSW you’re in for a treat. SXSW is the original anti-disciplinary conference. It brings together minds and ideas in ways that no other ... Continue Reading about Health SXSW 2018 | The 33 charts Super Guide
Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
As someone who cares for chronically ill children and watches technology, I’m thrilled to be participating in and advising Impact Pediatric Health at SXSW this March. Check it out. Supported by some of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the United States (my own Texas Children’s Hospital as a core catalyst of IPH), this one-of-a kind competition is a chance for ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health: A Game Changer for Kids
Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change
As someone who spends his time watching medicine’s collision with technology, it’s striking to see where children fit in. Or don’t fit in. Health technology favors big, nervous, healthy people with smartphones. But perhaps the winds are changing. Case in point: The Impact Pediatric Health pitch competition. This year’s SXSW Interactive festival brings together ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change
Can Online Identity Shape IRL Presence?
I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Jeff Benabio speak at SXSW. IRL versus online identity. Here’s how he opened: "By day I work with Kaiser Permanente; by night I’m @dermdoc." I’ve introduced myself the same way many times. Tongue-in-cheek, we play our digital presence as some other part of ourselves. A space and identity separate and distinct from real ... Continue Reading about Can Online Identity Shape IRL Presence?
Why I’ll be at SXSW in 2013
I'll be headed back to Austin in March 2013 for SXSW Interactive. Here’s why: People. SXSW interactive attracts people who are making things happen. Just about everyone who makes the investment for this event is serious about what they do. I go for the people. Health. No longer capitalized by skateboard riding technogeeks, health has made a clear mark (or ... Continue Reading about Why I’ll be at SXSW in 2013