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Topic: design
Doctors should inspire.
As doctors, we have pills to treat infections and high cholesterol. We have scalpels to replace hips and open clogged arteries. But beyond pills and scalpels, what tools do we have? Walking out of the doctor’s office without a prescription is a rare occurrence these days. And the famous surgeon tagline has always been “a [...]
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The Future Well in Vogue
We're happy to be included in Vogue Living's "Being Human" edition, curated by Ilse Crawford, that highlights from around the world "design that puts people first." This is exactly our mission with The Future Well.
Bcycle wins Fast Company plaudits
Fast Company has recently rated Bcycle as number five in the list of 10 most innovative companies in transportation. I'm really proud of this. When I was VP of Consumer Innovation at Humana, I built Bcycle in collaboration with Trek and Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. And I'm even more proud that Bcycle launched in Boulder this week and [...]
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This is health.
I spoke in Boston on Friday at Health Tech 2011 about “What is health?” and how the internet can enable better health for you and your community. I've articulated before on this site our definition of health, but it's obviously a complicated concept. So we're starting a weekly theme on the site, "This is health." [...]
Posted in design Tagged this is health
Health apps are about as effective as public health ads.
A quick glance at the iPhone app store for medical and health-related iPhone apps shows that, if you want to manage your health via your iPhone, you have a ton of options built with relatively little effort and cost. I have about 100 apps on my iPhone, but the average user has about 40. I [...]
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How you spend your time determines your health.
Do you spend 8 hours in front of a screen at work? Do you then spend your free time watching TV or poking around the internet when you get home? How much time are you spending cooking healthy meals to eat with friends and family? How much time are you doing physical activities that make [...]
Posted in design Tagged behavior, exercise, innovation, productivity
Tesco Clubcard and Health Rewards
Jay and I have been talking a lot about rewards programmes for health recently. We figured it'd be worth doing a series of blogs around rewards programmes since they will become more and more important in health and wellbeing. Let's start with sharing a bit more about my most important rewards programme experience - Tesco [...]
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Public Health 2.0: It won’t come from Public Health 1.0
I received my Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins in 2006. I took a course on transportation safety where we focused on designing roads for safety, making airlines safer, and decreasing the risk of medical helicopter crashes. In 2007, I worked for Public Citizen, Ralph Nader's consumer advocacy group. Ralph's book, Unsafe at Any [...]
Posted in design Tagged Public Health 2.0, the future, transportation
In an arm wrestle, who wins; your Gut or Health Science?