Customizing Care for Cancer and Beyond: A New Intel-OHSU Collaboration
It is beginning to feel to me like cancer has become as common as the common cold. Almost everyone I know—in every aspect of my life—is going through a cancer experience either directly themselves or...
View ArticleHealth IT Webcast Preview: The Revolution is Here
Watch this sneak peek clip from the Intel Health & Life Sciences Innovation Summit webcast series on Oct. 23-24. Register for the online sessions to hear the full conversations between me and Dr....
View ArticleWebcasts: Planting Seeds for Health IT Change
Here’s your personal invitation to join me for the Intel Health & Life Sciences Innovation Summit webcast series next week on Oct. 23-24. Register today and reserve your spot for the online...
View ArticlePersonal Health Technologies Help to Answer the $4.6 Trillion Dollar Question
In the currently raging debates about healthcare, there’s little attention to population aging and the cost of care — two critical trends that I call the $4.6 trillion question. By 2020, there will...
View ArticleJack Andraka Demonstrates Healthcare Innovation
Not too long ago I had the opportunity to sit down with Jack Andraka, the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair award winner, to discuss innovation, cancer research and diagnostics,...
View ArticleThe Impact of Apps in Health IT
Mobile apps are making a big impact on the health of patients worldwide. That’s why I sat down recently with Martha Wofford, vice president, head of CarePass at Aetna, Inc., to talk about consumer...
View ArticleFulfilling Carl’s Purpose Jar: Excitement about Intel’s Latest Collaboration...
More than a decade ago, an Intel team doing ethnographic studies of families dealing with Alzheimer’s came across an 86-year-old man named “Carl” who loved woodworking. I can still remember the amazing...
View ArticleHow Data and Analytics Translate to Personal Care
Patient engagement and analytics were trending topics at HIMSS15. I now wonder how the essence of those conversations will change going forward. In this video, I share insight into how the...
View ArticleLeveraging Population Health
Now that organizations have the computing power to gather meaningful information on patients and understand the trends that can lead to better outcomes, what are their plans for population health...
View ArticleIntel & OHSU Announce Collaborative Cancer Cloud at Intel Developer Forum
Each year millions of people all over the world, including more than 1 million patients in the United States, learn that they have a cancer diagnosis. Instead of going through painful chemotherapy that...
View ArticleHealth IT Interoperability Should Mean Less Cost
Interoperability should mean less cost for healthcare organizations and better data analysis for patients. Here are a few additional thoughts.
View ArticleNew Cancer Institutions Join OHSU and Intel in the Collaborative Cancer Cloud
Precision medicine is gaining traction worldwide. Countries like China, the UK and Saudi Arabia are all committing to enabling precision medicine to improve the health of their people. In the US, I...
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