Category: Health 2.0
Charity: Water – Live-Saving Water*
Loïc introduced Scott Harrison, and showed his enthusiasm for the person, his journey and his passion. Scott Harrison is the founder of Charity: Water, an NGO devoted to providing drinking water for those who do not have it. The project began in Liberia, and now has international ambitions. However, let’s look back at Scott’s own journey [...]
Health and Personal Data under the Microscope*
James Park is the co-founder of Fitbit.This startup was created in 2006 pitched at theTechCrunch50 conference, where it caused quite a stir. At the time, it was one of the first connected devices aimed at the general public and related to health. Back then, Fitbit was “nothing more than” a 3D wireless pedometer enhanced with a [...]
Quantify your Blood*
Gil Blander is the founder of Segterra’s Inside Tracker, and was a researcher at MIT (Guarente Lab) and at the Weizmann Institute (Israel). Inside Tracker helps you better observe yourself in terms of nutrition habits and lifestyle. No device behind but a web-based service where you can monitor your personal goals through a panel of [...]
Medicine X @ SUMedicine
Medicine X inaugurated its first day on the themes of "self-tracking." What is this "self-tracking"? It is a movement that came into being along with other firms such as Withings, Fitbit or RunKeeper. These are the start-ups to the innovative technologies allowing each and every person to supervise predefined parameters concerning their health as well as [...]
Medicine 2.0 @ harvardmed
Medicine 2.0 is a conference that mixes different genres and this is probably what makes it particularly interesting for a researcher. Created by Gunther Eysenbach in 2008, it has happened in Canada, Europe and in the United States, in places as prestigious as Stanford Medical School and Harvard Medical School this year. It will be [...]
Medicine 2.0 @ Stanford
Medicine 2.0 Fall Conference 2011 initiated by Gunther Eysenbach and organized by Larry Chu and his great team (including Zoë) was held in Stanford University at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. What is Medicine 2.0 about? Medicine 2.0 is certainly about bridging the gap between Academics, Entrepreneurs, Doctors, Healthcare Providers and [...]
Health 2.0
YouTube funny videos can seem miles away from physicians blogs or patients communities. However the concept of patients/scientists-generated content emerges and develops on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter as well, with contributions spreading from breast cancer storytellings to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis symptoms or chronic headache conditions. This phenomenon depicts the concept of Health 2.0. Health 2.0 derivates [...]
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