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A simple truth about the value of nursing (and the challenge to unlocking it)

Sally Okun delivered one of the best talks of TEDMED 2013’s first full day. She also achieved a TEDMED milestone. Okun, the vice president of advocacy, policy and patient safety for PatientsLikeMe, was the first nurse to ever speak at the event. In some ways, the way it took nurses awhile to arrive at TEDMED […]

Can social healthcare replace clinical trials?

Every day, data is lost between the clinician-patient interaction. Given the fact that physicians under report over 50% of the symptoms and side effects their patients experience, this is a significant amount of information. This is data that could otherwise be used to formulate new pharmaceutical drugs or design innovative medical devices. In this interview […]