Doctors 2.0 and You: Key Messages in the “From Doctor to Futurist” Keynote

Doctors 2.0 and You was an amazing event again! It collects all the experts, doctors, e-patients, pharma companies and start-ups in this area. I presented Webicina.com on the first day and gave the closing keynote on the second day entitled “From Doctor to Futurist”. Some of my key points: The future of healthcare will be based on patients who will be able to measure anything about themselves from blood count to ECG and even genomic data. We must prepare students and medical professionals for this digital world. This is why I launched a university course, an e-learning platform and wrote a book. My role as a medical futurist is to close the gap between e-patients and their not that web-savvy doctors; as well as between digital technologies and everyday medicine. Every medical student in the world must read e-Patient Dave’s book!     I had a chance to wear the Google Glass. It’s great but you expect more based on the promotional videos. Dr. Laurent Alexandre wrote a section about my work in digital health in his book. Tiantian Li, the managing director of the world’s largest medical community site of 2 million doctors in China, gave me a gift. I gave a try to HapiFork that buzzes if you eat too fast. See you next year in Paris!        
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