Some three million children in Britain are obese, and treating childhood obesity is far from easy. If we are to have any chance of responding adequately to the epidemic of obesity we need to find, firstly, a treatment that works and, secondly, a way to scale it up so that it can be used [...]
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Slowly but surely the internet is transforming industries—finance, travel, music, entertainment—but so far it has had little impact on public services. But can it transform public services and if so how and when? These were the questions that ran through a day of “cocreation” organized by Patient Opinion, an organisation founded by GP Paul Hodgkin [...]
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We are getting some nice coverage about the Stelios Award. First to cover is the The Deaf Blog, a blog about the achievements of people with hearing difficulties.
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Last week I was privileged to hear a brilliant talk—by Nicholas Janni—on what Henry V or rather Shakespeare has to teach us about leadership.
Prince Harry was, as most people know, a dissolute youth, hanging out with drunks, pimps, whores, and undesirables with the great Falstaff chief among them. But when his [...]
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“I would like to congratulate Mohammad for reaching the shortlist of this year’s award, it is not an easy task to be nominated because there was stiff competition. I have been impressed by Mohammad and all short listed entrepreneurs and will look forward to awarding the prize to the winner and seeing how they use [...]
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One of the many perks of winning Seedcamp is the free consulting we get from its partners. The first such partner to help us out is ThoughtWorks who gave us a usability session with Marc McNeil. ThoughtWorks’ clients include thetrainline.com and their Chief Scientific Officer is Martin Fowler, one of the authors of the Agile [...]
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I wrote a blog some six months ago about how a talk by Harold Shipman’s successor had convinced me that I should get access. I do most of my work online, complete my tax return online, make all my travel arrangements online, bank online, and buy books and CDs online, so [...]
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Craig Agranoff wrote a lovely article about PKB at the Social Commerce Blog. Craig is the editor of sCommerce and he really understood how we hope to help patients to work with clinicians to manage their help. He even read our Personal Health Records encyclopedia, which we love to write in.
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Last week I caught up with David Kibbe, one of the pioneers of personal health records. As usual I learned a lot from him. One idea that stuck with me is further explained in his blog post about clinical groupware. Here is the introduction:
What would you call health care software that:
Is Web-based and networkable, therefore [...]
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Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, has much to be proud of. But when asked what gives him the greatest pride, he does not mention the great products he created, or the multi-billion dollar company he built, but rather his management of free-thinking creatives. As Patients Know Best grows, I hope that I can look back [...]
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