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No B for Boring at TEDMED – A Force in The Healthcare Evolution
TEDMED 2013 was brilliant: professional and fascinating from all angles. It felt like your soul was being carried through a whirlwind of constant inspiration. The 7am- 11pm program was overwhelming at...
View ArticleDante Murphy (Digitas Health): “Don’t Tell Italians Not To Eat Pasta”
Dante Murphy is responsible for ideation, research, methodologies and building a world-class multi-disciplinary design practice at Digitas Health. MedCrunch recently caught up with him to find out...
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THINKING OUT OF THE BOX – Why doctors are the heroes of management consulting
What the hell is management consulting? - This was the first thought I had when I first heard about management consulting in my last year of med school. I Googled the Internet and one of the world’s...
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mHealth Used For Disease Management
“How and why are you using mobile health technology?” The Healthcare Intelligence Network tried to answer this question in a recent survey among 149 healthcare organizations in the US this past March....
View ArticleTransforming Healthcare through Patient Empowerment
“I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.” – Hippocrates The role of empowerment in health has been gaining importance...
View ArticleBook Review | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
In 608 pages, Johns Hopkins’ oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee has written one of the most fascinating books about cancer over the last couple of years. In addition to its remarkable depth of content,...
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Seven Insights from Management Consulting and What Doctors can Learn from Them
Some people -including myself- might look at management consultants as a strange breed of young professionals. Most of the time, it looks like they just escaped right from puberty into dark suits....
View ArticleWhy Health Journalism is s**t! and How to make it Better
Isn’t health journalism terrible? The misanthropes will surely agree! But as a realist -when one ponders this notion- it becomes evident that journalism in general has serious shortcomings. Yet, it...
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What We Learned from Studying 16 Million Cancer Conversations per Year
Last week, the W2O Group published a large-scale study of online conversations about cancer. This study, for the first time, featured public conversations on blogs, Facebook, twitter, YouTube, user...
View ArticleNeurotrack – The Wonder of Catching Alzheimer’s Disease Early Gives Hope.
MedCrunch talked to Eli Kaplan the CEO of Neurotrack represented in the Hive at TEDMED about her exciting and meaningful venture – Neurotrack. MedCrunch: Hi Eli, Can you tell us a bit about...
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Patient Access to Online Medical Resources: Collaboration or Catastrophe?
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer recently published a white paper about the practice of patients using online resources and information to answer medical questions. Among data such...
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What Does Impact Mean & Why Are You Here?
For this article, I initially set myself the goal to write about the complex science of innovation in healthcare and look at the difficult formulas of improvement, efficiency and variety of concept...
View ArticleDoubling Your Short Term Memory Capacity with this Simple Memory Hack
Take the next 1-2 minutes to memorize this list of random words: Grandmother, pen, cup, business card, coffee beans, chocolate, door, guitar, wrist watch, restaurant, salmon, Bill Clinton,...
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Cognitive Training and Lumosity
Image courtesy of Luminosity. The first time I heard about Lumosity was just a few days ago when a family member signed me up for the service. To be perfectly honest, I had no idea what it was until I...
View ArticleRealising the need for Wellthcare
As the Clinical Editor of TEDMED, I have been lucky enough to speak to some of the biggest thinkers and innovators in health care. Their thoughts and actions are inspiring, but as I sat stage-side at...
View ArticleHow Generation Y is Redefining the Way Medical Innovation Works + Interview...
At MedCrunch we have the ability to meet the most exciting people, and write about their scalable impact on healthcare. Generation Y, a generation of innovators and startup artists has had little...
View ArticleCan Good Health Be Bad For You?
Our mothers teach us to wash our hands and face, take a bath, or take our medicine. Our doctors warn us to keep our hands clean to prevent sicknesses like the flu. But can too much hygiene make us...
View ArticleWellthcare Series: Can Health Return to Being a Civic Value?
I was struck this week by an insightful essay in the Financial Times on the new £188m library that has been opened in Birmingham, England. The bit that got me was a quote from Brian Gambles, the...
View ArticleDiabetes: A Gateway to Dementia?
The link between obesity, heart disease, and diabetes has been researched extensively. Experts now add dementia to the list of illnesses that can stem from obesity. The risk of developing dementia...
View ArticleWellthcare series – Despatch 1: Discovering Wellth
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Wellthcare When I was a kid, one of my favourite things was getting lost on my bike. My two best friends and I would set off and take random lefts and rights...
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