Maarten den Braber
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Health2.0 pre-conference day
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21 Oct 2008San Francisco. Feels a bit like being home (Amsterdam that is). You can just walk through the streets here and not have to take a cab for every place you want to go to. That’s nice! And in some ways it’s even better than Amsterdam: they have a a proper Apple Store :-) Continue reading »
Master of Science!
In: Thesis
20 Oct 2008Finally - it’s been a struggle but I’ve made it! My thesis presentation and the rest of my colloquium went very well. The presentation was fun to give and it was a blast to be able to finally present to all those of you who have shown their continuing interest in my research (and the process leading up to it). And the best part: I’ve graduated with 8 (as has Joost!)
Thanks again to all of you who have attended my colloquium (in person or online in any form). I’m really stunned by all your nice reaction and congratulations!
Thesis: document, presentation and livestream
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10 Oct 2008Lots of you asked and finally they’re here: the document and presentation of my thesis. Today at 10.30am I will be presenting and if all goes well you can follow the live-stream here (from 10.30am GMT+1). For now you can download the final document or read it on Scribd. The presentation is available on Slideshare (although I can’t guarantee that I won’t make any additional changes this morning before presenting :-) Continue reading »
Invitation: Rethinking the Hospital (colloquium)
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26 Sep 2008Running a hospital is a balancing act. How can the hospital provide true value for patients/customers while at the same time handle all pressures of limited finances and ever-increasing demands? Business model theory can help hospitals build comprehensive value-based strategy. Continue reading »
Nexthealth Elevator Pitch
In: nexthealth
5 Sep 2008This is where healthcare is going, the gold standard of semantic interoperabilty. Consumers WILL be able to access healthcare goods and services online and offline at will. This means consumers will have many choices to make in healthcare - how? where? when to access? which sources are credible? which providers protect my privacy? which hospitals provide services online and offline? Continue reading »
Nexthealth presentation and paper available
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5 Sep 2008I’ll do the shameless plug thing again and tell you that we’re presenting the Nexthealth model and research in CR2 at 1.30pm today. We’ve already put our presentation and paper online for you to view. Love to hear your comments (either on this site or after/during the presentation)
Live from Medicine 2.0 - Day 2
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5 Sep 2008It’s day 2 of the conference and I must say it’s growing on me this conference-going thing :-) Love talking to so many inspirational and innovative people!
There are 180 people attending from 19 countries :-) Got an email from Rashmi Sinha (Slideshare CEO) asking for everyone presenting at Medicine 2.0 to put up their presentation on Slideshare and tag with medicine20.
Live from Medicine 2.0
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4 Sep 2008Coming to you live from Medicine 2.0 at the MaRS centre in Toronto. Follow the discussion on Twitter. See the first photos on Flickr and wait for the first blogposts to appear - more to come soon :-)
UPDATE: I’ll try to add links to everyone liveblogging or reporting from the event. Let me know in the comments if you’re also liveblogging so I can include your site!
Medicine 2.0
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3 Sep 2008
Tomorrow I’ll be flying out to Toronto for Medicine 2.0! I’m quite thrilled being able to go there and present the Nexthealth paper Jen McCabe Gorman and I wrote (originally for SWWS ‘08). You can check the conference proceedings for the paper. Also we’ll be presenting the Nexthealth model which Jen has been particulary busy with coordinating and building. We’re presenting at 1:30pm on Friday - come along for a not-so-regular interactive presentation and for the very least taste some original Dutch “drop” :-) That is of course if I can get it past customs…
I’ll try to report live from the conference, but am not sure how well all the internet connection stuff will be. If all works well I’ll be posting here and on Twitter. Ah well, we’ll have a blast anyway. It will be fun to meet all those with new insights on how to innovate healthcare (hi Berci :-)!
In the meantime I’ve packed all my gear and will try to do some thesis writing on the plane while probably listening to Harry Potter (read by Stephen Fry - great fun, I’ll probably have to do an extra post about good audiobooks another time) or Hans Zimmer’ soundtracks, also great :-)
See you in Toronto? Leave something in the comments if you’re also coming and would like to meet!
Juggling
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31 Aug 2008
Eventually I managed. Juggling. I learned from a friend who’s to say the least, talented at it. It came after one or two days of picking up the balls, trying for an hour and then giving it a rest again and doing something else. I’m now looking at the set of juggling balls I learned that with in front of me. Realizing that I’ll probably have some similar experience with this blog and everything around it.
I’m good at doing several things at the same time. I’m not a one project guy. That’s fun - most of the time. It’s less so if you’re busy writing a thesis or actually having to focus at one thing thing now. Than your life becomes somewhat like a vicious cycle.
But for some funny reason I both like and dislike being scattered amongst all kinds of different projects and ideas at a certain time. Sure - it would be best to first finish that thesis (yes, yes, working on it… :-) but at the same time I probably couldn’t get it right if that would be the only thing on my mind.
So that’s why you’re viewing this :-) Procrastinating from thesis writing eventually gets the blog work done. Actually not bad timing so I can use it to report next week about my trip to Medicine 2.0 conference in Toronto (drop me a line if you’re also attending and would like to meet up!).
And after that? We’ll see I guess - hopefully the thesis will be done sometime soon so I can invite you all to hear my colloqium on “Rethinking the hospital: value of the business model theory”. And in-between you’ll probably hear some more on being involved in a healthcare tech start-up, event-engineering stories or gadget reviews. Or not - that probably means I’m juggling some other projects :-)
It’s a magical world. Let’s go exploring!
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