We need a “Copernican Revolution” in healthcare!

Motion of Sun, Earth, and Mars according to heliocentrism (left) and to geocentrism (right), before the Copernican-Galilean-Newtonian revolution. Note the retrograde motion of Mars on the right. Yellow dot, Sun; blue, Earth; red, Mars. (In order to get a smooth animation, it is assumed that the period of revolution of Mars is exactly 2 years, instead of the actual value, 1.88 years). The orbits are assumed to be circular, in the heliocentric case. (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution)

I share my birthday with someone very famous, I would say that almost everybody in the world know his name. At least we all know his work or rather, the result of his work. Nicolaus Copernicus was born 498 years ahead of me, to the day, and of course his work fundamentally changed the way…… Continue reading We need a “Copernican Revolution” in healthcare!

“Patients included” for REAL!!!

This is a fantastic campaign on Medstartr by “The Joan of Arc of e-patients” Casey Quinlan! Casey and the rest of the gang at Patients for Clinical Research want to collect a “War chest” where patients who want to go to medical conferences can apply for funding. I LOVE AND SUPPORT THIS IDEA! What about you? [dciframe]http://www.medstartr.com/projects/374-patients-for-clinical-research-drive-patients-included/video_embed,400,400,0,auto,border:2px…… Continue reading “Patients included” for REAL!!!

Quantified Self Europe 2014

This week I am in Amsterdam for the third Quantified Self Europe conference. I am really  looking forward to seeing everybody again and be part of the amazing discussions that will happen. The program can be found here: http://quantifiedself.com/2014/05/2014-qs-europe-conference/ A video of my presentation: “How not to fall” can be found here: https://vimeo.com/101714345