Devices & Diagnostics, Health IT, Hospitals

How much does it cost to replace the battery in a defibrillator? Super patient Hugo Campos knows

If you don’t follow Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) on Twitter, you probably should. He’s changing the […]

If you don’t follow Hugo Campos (@HugoOC) on Twitter, you probably should. He’s changing the way at least one of the big medical device companies–Medtronic (MDT)–thinks about sharing data with patients.

He’s also posting interesting stuff on patient empowerment, privacy and data democritization. Campos posts regularly, too. He seems to really curate his feed. Here are three of my favorites from this summer.

Exhibit A: This receipt, which is a very personal example of the ridiculous pricetag on a quick outpatient procedure:

Exhibit B: A panel on how mHealth, social media and medical devices/implants threaten health privacy. For medical devices, “we have to pay a lot of attention to how we’re identifying ourselves to the rest of the network,” Adrian Gropper, medical device developer and entrepreneur, said.

Finally: A great video from StrataRx about what healthcare will look like in 2020. A big takeaway: Use technology to hide complexity and make it more accessible. (But when to do what–nagging vs. using Avatars, etc.–is a big learning curve.)

On data democratization: “What openness enables is a whole new kind of innovation,” Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly media, said. “There’s this whole revolution that’s going to come when we have open data because there’ll be all these creative people who are going to say, ‘Okay, I can build a service against that.’ Then all of a sudden we have the health equivalent of the iPhone as open platform.”

 

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