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50 words to transform
On her new album Kate Bush sings about the 50 words the Inuit have for snow. During the song Stephen Fry sums up 50 words for snow as Kate Bush counts down the numbers in the background. Although it’s a pervasive myth, the song documents in a beaut
The Day I turned into a Computer Game
A couple of years ago, I decided I wasn’t happy with the way my diabetes was treated. I had to eat set amounts of food at set times. It made me feel very restricted, which I found hard to tell anyone, because apparently the right attitude for a
Participatory innovation of e-health
Within healthcare I often notice that organizations focus primarily on tools instead of people. This results for example in organizations wanting the exact same as their competitor or questions like “how can we make use of FaceBook” witho
E-health for the intellectually disabled
Some weeks ago I received an email from a student. She studies Industrial Design and is working on human-machine interaction. Her goal is to help people with intellectual disabilities to cook good meals. She proposed some ideas and asked for my opini
Harnessing the shameless internet
Hatemails, the online exchange of child pornography, facebook updates with pictures of yourself being drunk, websites where people get bashed or blackmailed because they undressed themselves in front of a webcam or for no reason at all. The internet
Where is eHealth?
The good thing about new developments is that they shine a new light on old values. Take the concept of eHealth. Care innovation, Health 2.0, e-patients; words that preach a better relationship between physicians and patients. Everybody will agree on
E-health is empowerment health… or isn’t it?
Recently we were having friends over for dinner. One of them asked: if you were sent back to the middle ages by time machine, how would you teach those people about the progress we made over the past decades? I fell silent for a long time. We were co
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
Your good health
Good health: we all care about it in different ways. Whether you go to a medicine man or a GP when you fall ill, whether you pray, hallucinate with the help of interesting toadstools, or take antibiotics: how you get well is up to you. Well, not quit
No Ehealth without Phealth
Ehealth is the cure for all the diseases in our health care system: it makes better quality of care and – last but not least – it makes care cheaper. No wonder that a lot of healthcare professionals and healthcare insurers can be found at Ehealth
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