Demos is one of my favorite think tanks, a left-of-center research institution responsible for many of Tony Blair and New Labour’s policies. Peter Bradwell and his colleagues are running an interesting research project through a series of focus groups with citizens in different parts of the UK. One of the topics is how personal medical [...]
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I attended the launch event for the NESTA report by Laura Bunt and Michael Harris, The Human Factor: how transforming healthcare to involve the public can save money and save lives. The three speakers were Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Tim Kelsey, Chairman of Dr Foster Intelligence, and Jonathan Kestenbaum is Chief [...]
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I have long been a fan of the think tank Demos so it is a pleasure to be part of their research on patient access to medical records. This is a follow-on to their and is funded by the Health Foundation. The final report, by Peter Bradwell and Faizal Farouk (co-author of The Talking Cure) will come out [...]
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Dr Richard Smith, our Chairman, attended HealthCamp UK 2009 and wrote about it in the British Medical Journal: How might we do better at sharing failures? How could online patient feedback be developed in Italy? How could the NHS cut its carbon footprint by 80%? How could patient inserts be improved? How could the undoubted [...]
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Today we held HealthCamp UK 2009 event as part of the Department of Health’s wonderful NHS Innovation Expo and it was a blast. As with the first ever HealthCamp UK, back in 2008, we had wonderful participants who posed fascinating problems. The Twitter feed, #HCUK09, was funny to read through after the event. If you would [...]
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I had a wonderful time at Leeds University’s CPD4 Health Innovation conference on health consumer needs. I learned as much from the people at my table as I did from the ones on the podium. In particular, I am grateful to the people from Connecting from Health who were so generous with their time and [...]
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On Monday November 10th we ran HealthCamp UK 2008. It was great fun and a wonderful way to get to know innovators in healthcare in the UK. We began with lightning talks: 14 sessions, each 2 minutes long discussing 1 idea with 0 slides. My favourite was the sniffer bees one by Marc Bax: But [...]
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I am grateful for Jim DeLeo and Carl Leonard for giving me a slot to run a brainstorming session at the National Institutes of Health’s Biomedical Computing Interest Group. I called the meeting because I wanted NIH patients to have access to their medical records in services like Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. We had [...]
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