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All video online!
Want to (re)capture the feel of last monday? Great news: thanks to our fantastic partner Feller Media, all video is online! Check out all of this years TEDxMaastricht talks here. Check out the backstage interviews and impressions on www.youtube.com/
The Future of Health 2013
The keen listener must have noticed the announcement in the wrap up of TEDxMaastricht 2012: there will be a third edition of The Future of Health! On February 4th, 2013 to be more exact. This third edition will however not take place in Maastricht, b
Lucien Engelen en Jip Keijzer: keep our hearts strong together
Why are we doing this? The puzzle starts to fit. Lucien speaks of the loss of his parents. That’s the reason why he is doing this, it’s his motivation. We have little time and we talk too much and do too little. We have to share ideas, i
Maarten Lens-FitzGerald: share without borders
From ICT to participatory healthcare: a challenge in translating technology into a patient inclusion tool. Sometimes the future that you taught doesn’t happen. Mostly the future comes as surprise. Maarten presented his story and challenge to c
Pedro Monteiro: virtual 2D patient helps MDs to learn
Portuguese cardiologist Pedro Monteira and his team created iPatientTM, a multi-touch interactive platform to train MDs and other healthcare professionals, to raise awareness for different diseases and helps doctors to get direct insights in the acti
Janneke Wittekoek en Joop Braakhekke: Proof of the pudding
“What’s wrong with humanity, don’t we want to stay healthy?” a spot on question by Janneke Wittekoek, cardiologist. Ask any random person if he or she wants to be healthy and the answer will very likely be “yes”. Then how is it possible t
It’s all in the Games… for Health!!!
It’s October 25, 2011 and we’re at the heart of Amsterdam where the Games for Health summit is organized outside of the USA for the very first. And right from the start it seems to be a great success. Besides a very interesting program with great
Marion Coster: The musical aptitude and the gift of empathy
For humans, music was probably born as natural instinct to reproduce the natural rhythms and sounds we are used to listen in nature. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people dedicated to medicine and life science can release their creativ
Henk Braam: Toontje: a compassionate visual report on a homeless man on his tricycle
As I wrote in the profile page about Henk Braam describing in words don’t seem appropriate to someone whose main mean of expression is a visual one. During his talk Henk Braam showed his photography has a far greater expressiveness than my words co
Marcel Joachimsthal: Healthy user data
Marcel’s talk is focussed around three perspectives: - the patient - the professional - society (us) To start with the personal, Marcel himself is a COPD patient. At the age of three, his doctor predicted that he would not live to be more than
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