Technology in good health
Technology is impacting the field of medicine in profound ways. Advances in medical technologies and approach are of special interest to Pop!Tech, and as such, we’ve invited a number of people working in these fields to attend this year’s event.
Dr. Jay Parkinson is the founder of Hello Health, a “Health 2.0” company that’s marketing health care as a consumer brand (think Zipcar, Netflix, FedEx) rather than a faceless health care provider. Hello Health helps connect patients with local health care providers with a more streamlined, communicative and collaborative approach to providing and receiving care. Using tools like IM, email and vlogs, Hello Health seeks to shift the paradigm of the traditional medicine hierarchy, empowering patients to have more direct access to their doctors and their medical information.
Another speaker at this year’s Pop!Tech is the award-winning science writer Laurie Garrett. Garrett is a global health expert who focuses on emerging and re-emerging diseases, public health and their effects on foreign policy, and national security. Garrett is the author of several books on these subjects, including Betrayal of Trust and The Coming Plague. At Pop!Tech, she’ll be discussing the current state of global public health and its problems.
We recently wrote about presenter Dr. Stephen Badylak and his amazing work on regenerative medicine. In coming weeks, we’ll also be featuring some of the “Big Bet” Social Innovation Fellows and faculty who are working on new methodologies and applications of medical technology to solve the age-old problem of keeping our bodies whole, happy and healthy.
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