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Now you have Healthcare data what are you going to do with it?
In the next 10 years data analysis will do for the doctors mind what x-ray and medical imaging has done for their vision. How? By turning data analytics into actionable information. Take for instance Watson, IBM’s intelligent supercomputer. Watson
Ho-Ho-Ho … the TEDxElfs have pushed the “invite” button
Tonight on Christmas Eve some of the TEDxElfs have put a lot of names on the official TEDxMaastricht guestlist and seemed to have pushed the INVITE button So that’s why over a hundered people have found a invitation in their e-mailbox (or spamf
TEDxMaastricht is a beautiful journey
Wrapping up for the holiday season, i was reflecting on the latest steps in the developing story of setting up this event with some of my colleaugues at the office. Yesterday i had this great skypecalls with people from IBM about Watson, and Pedro Mo
An idea that was worth doing : The Compassion for Care song by Marion Coster
Sometimes words can not express enough and music is needed to take the rumble in your head and find our way through emotions. Finding my way in the mixed emotions of things that occurred on the field of disruption of compassion for medical students
Get creative, get involved!
There is a movie which I like very much “la vita e’ bella” (” Life is beautiful”). It won Oscars in 2009 and was directed by Roberto Benigni. It has the power to make me cry and smile at the same time… When I first
One size does not fit all
Technology means different things for different people. That means that we need a lot more user involvement in the development of technologies for elderly. However, most technologies are developed by people in a different age bracket than the elderly
Dying as a journey
Since the beginning of time, mankind has tried to get a grip on mortality. Quite successfully, in my opinion. Every culture has developed stories and rituals that turned dying into something meaningful. Usually death is seen as a journey to another,
Dear insurance company…
…please get me a copy of ‘Michael Jackson The Experience’. Michael Jackson The Experience is a Nintendo Wii game. No I am not a teenager, I am actually a 32 year old, but this game makes me and my friends dance like MJ himself. A gr
Care for a game?
Loneliness is one of the big issues in elderly care, partly due big societal changes. 50 years ago most people died less than 15 kilometer from the place that they were born. This meant that families for the most part lived close together and had fre
Participatory healthcare: join the team!
I am very inspired by the concept of participatory healthcare. That is why I recently joined the E-patients bootcamp at the Radboud REshape Academy. It was not only e–patient Dave deBronkart who was on stage, but also Parkinson patient Sara Riggare
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