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So we gave away our first ticket !

That’s how we started a friday follow #ff action that resulted that turned out great Based on the secret time we had in mind, 2012 as a year turned in to 20:12 as the winning time. So based on that @moniquefrijns was the nearest with a 20:09 ti

By Lucien Engelen on November 20, 2011 0 comments

Empowering young doctors

Pieter Kubben, one of our TEDxMaastricht 2011 speakers, developed a nice app for young doctors with smartphones. Being a doctor in training can be pretty hard work. That’s why the network of specialist registrars in The Netherlands decided to t

By Marcel Wortel on November 18, 2011 0 comments

From Conception to Birth

Great TED talk of Alexander Tsiaras.

By Lucien Engelen on November 14, 2011 0 comments

Did TEDxMaastricht 2011 affect you or your work ? Tell us !

We’re curious if this years TEDxMaastricht affect you or your work ? Did you use stuff of it, idea’s, video’s, insights. Did it help you in another way ? Would be great to share your experience right here, drop us a line, a link to

By Lucien Engelen on October 28, 2011 3 comments

X-ray for your mind

Dr. Paul Grundy concentrates his efforts on driving comprehensive, linked and integrated healthcare. “I really stept into this job because it gave the best platform in the world to use the tools of information technology and data to do for the doct

By Marcel Wortel on October 28, 2011 0 comments

Your game-for-health idea could win €200.000

CZ is looking for smart games to improve care Competition: up to €200.000 (so over $260K) for production-costs of winning game concept in health care. How can you make games that create and improve affordable health care? That is the key question f

By Lucien Engelen on October 3, 2011 0 comments

Create history

We’re happy to hear that our own @ragnaja is helping out @musjes with her TEDtalk at TEDxDelft (November 7th). We certainly look forward to that talk. Think of it. A mother of three who lost her uterus, just after she gave birth to her third ch

By Marcel Wortel on September 30, 2011 0 comments

Got game?

The Games for Health Conference is a wonderful mixture of hard-core gamers, healthcare professionals and technology enthusiasts. All united by a common goal: creating fun and engaging experiences that improve health and well-being. We think that’s

By Marcel Wortel on September 21, 2011 0 comments

From E-Patient to Ex-Patient 2.0

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald is one of the first ‘famous’ e-patients in The Netherlands. He struggled with cancer and he survived. Between this struggle and survival he shared his journey on his weblog. To share. To inform. To hopefully help a little.

By Marcel Wortel on September 15, 2011 0 comments

A warm welcome to Stephen Friend

He had it all: fame, respect among his peers, a team of researchers and an excellent position at Merck & Co. And he gave it all away to pursuit his dream. Stephen Friend founded Sage Bionetworks to do for science what Facebook and Twitter did fo

By Marcel Wortel on September 15, 2011 0 comments