Kevin Kelly

general, trends & principles

Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.

Susannah Fox | May 25, 2011

Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare: Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible. An idea whose time [...]

medical records, policy issues, trends & principles, Why PM

“The Quantified Patient”: my talk at “Quantified Self” show&tell, December 2009

e-Patient Dave | December 27, 2009

The Quantified Self (aka “QS”) is an informal San Francisco based group of people who are tracking one thing or another about their lives. (Could it exist anywhere else??) They have occasional “Show&Tell” meet-ups, with elbow-rubbing and a series of quick talks, 10-15 minutes each. A few weeks ago I was in town for a [...]

general

e-Patients Are Proud Deviants!

Gilles Frydman | June 15, 2009

The wonderful Atul Gawande delivered this past Friday a commencement address, titled “Money,” to the graduates of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He touched on and expanded on the theme of his groundbreaking article “The Cost Conundrum” that was reviewed on this site. The transcript of the commencement address is definitely worth reading because [...]