Turning Autoimmune Dreams into Reality Being a Big Vision entrepreneur is a ride on an emotional rollercoaster. My vision is of a connected world of personalized care for autoimmune patients, using data and digital tools to reshape research, diagnosis, and clinical practice for autoimmune disease. This is outside today’s mainstream
By Bonnie Feldman and Ellen M Martin Digital health is filled with promise, but for autoimmune patients many gaps persist. With an eye to bridging those gaps, I recently attended two very different conferences: The Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit was a continuing education meeting to help practicing physicians better treat complex
Roni Zeiger MD is a physician who thinks that doctors have a lot to learn from their patients. As the former Chief Health Strategist at Google, Roni spent a great deal of time thinking about how people search for medical information online. He began to notice that “it’s easy to
The dimensions of Big Data can be summed up by The Four Vs: Volume, Variety, Velocity, and Veracity. But however large or diverse one’s data, it can often be hard to find exactly what one needs. As a researcher, I spend a lot of time on Google. I might
Have you ever noticed a problem and wondered why no one fixed it sooner? That is exactly what Howard Look, who has been the Vice President of Software and User Experience at TiVo, Pixar and Amazon, was thinking when his daughter got type 1 diabetes in 2011. Given his background
Each day there seems to be a new type of patient community popping up. A good place to start to learn about these new approaches is a “Report on the Use of Social Media to Prevent Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Disease”, recently published by the eHealth Initiative. Additionally,
How Big Data is Changing Current Research Methodology: Cancer Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Current treatments are ineffective with over 75% of patients not responding to treatments, despite the $50 billion pharmaceutical companies spend in research and development every year. In addition, patients
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night with a flash of creativity (or good idea)? The idea for “Communities, Platforms and Data” came to me in the middle of the night as one of those flashes of creativity. While researching “Mobile Social Games for Health,” I
Genomics is making headlines in both academia and the celebrity world. When genetic tests revealed that Angelina Jolie was predisposed to breast cancer, intense media cover ensued. Since then, genetic testing and genomics have been propelled to the front of many more minds. In this new data field, companies are