Our new study was just published in BMJ Open! Opinion leader empowered patients about the era of digital health: a qualitative study. While medicine today must be infused with a swarm of technologies, what even the most advanced empowered patients want is simple: time, empathy and a partnership with their physicians. This is a huge milestone for The Medical Futurist Institute and we are very grateful for the amazing empowered patients who participated in the study. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #science …see more

The Guide to the Future of Medicine is an examination of the trends that are fast approaching on the healthcare horizon, and how they can be embraced by professionals and patients who value a humanistic approach to medicine. http://amzn.to/1w0O3sx #themedicalfuturist #read #reading #book #future #healthcare #digitalhealth #medicine …see more

In crisis communications, employees frequently get overlooked. Sadly, no one seems to remember customers in their plans either ... and JCPenney is no different in their announcement today.

So Team Ashdene conquered the Three Peaks Challenge last weekend in aid of The Seashell Trust and our PTA. Any one who knows me customers, colleagues or other and would like to donate please follow the link or just go to virgin money giving and search my name. https://lnkd.in/g9U2fWA …see more

AJ Jacobs traveled all around the world to say “thanks” to all the people involved in making his morning cup of coffee. Then he wrote about it in his new book “Thanks a Thousand.” He thanked everyone from the farmers to the truckers and so on. Then I did my own gratitude experiment (during this podcast). I called the professor who signed the letter that got me thrown out of graduate school. And I said “thanks…” …see more

What are a few apps on your smartphone that you deem essential and check first thing in the morning? For me, it is WhatsApp and LinkedIn. But glad to see that across #India , Koo is one the apps that is a must-have for many. Congrats to Koo's team on being selected as the best everyday essential #MobileAapplications for 2020 on Google Play. #KalaariFamily Aprameya Radhakrishna , Mayank Bidawatka …see more

Are you ready to be introduced to Angels, #VCs , #Investors ? Pitch your #startups here to find out:

There is an amazing country that uses digital health in the right way! In the keynote I gave about Privacy in the Digital Health Era at the recent GLOBSEC event, I analyzed patients' freedom of choice from the digital health perspective. 1) In China, the freedom of choice patients have about digital health technologies is limited because the government makes them use A.I. and other ways of obtaining data about them. 2) In Rwanda, the freedom of choice is there but limited as otherwise they don't get access to healthcare, only through digital health technologies. 3) In the US, patients have a lot of freedom of choice but without proper incentives, medical professionals are not encouraged to get involved. Which country's example do you think I used as the best in the world? Please cast your vote by leaving a comment. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #speaker #keynote #speakerlife …see more

Hooray! The Happiness Lab is back with a mini-season to help you start off the year with a positive boost. First up is a conversation with Dr. Kristin Neff who explains why you need to dump your inner drill sergeant. …see more

Have you ever felt INVISIBLE? Tip 3 in my #10Tips10Days series about living a fulfilled life of gratitude is all about acknowledgment. A lot of people don't know this, but I lost 75lbs following during my recovery and remission - but at my heaviest, I was invisible. Nobody wanted to call me or hang out. Nobody said "hi" in the halls or at the grocery store. During my diagnosis, friends distanced themselves and stopped inviting me out and calling me up. It's way too easy to feel invisible in this noisy world which is why it's SO important to acknowledge others! I DARE you to say "hello" to every stranger you come across, make eye contact and smile. It's hard with social anxiety or low self-esteem - trust me, I get it. I've been there. But believe me when I say that the smallest bit of acknowledgment will lift your heart up and spread like wildfire, making a huge shift in happiness, fulfillment, and gratitude... And before you know it, being social and sharing your presence with the world will become habitual! What do you have going on today where you can lift someone up with acknowledgment? Thank you Kira Day , Jake Jordan , Bobby Umar and Lila Smith for re-launching this challenge! #Gratitude #Leadership #Happiness #PersonalGrowth #ProfessionalGrowth #ChantelShares …see more

It’s a classic Hobson’s choice before India: Spend now and take the risk of being downgraded as spending will bring back the economy on the growth path much faster. So, even if the downgrade happens, the growth will put pressure on the raters to upgrade India again. #spending #interestrates #rbipolicy #gdp #economicslowdown #recession …see more

Speaking Truth to Power In classical Greece, "speaking truth to power" was known as parrhesia. The tactic is similar to satyagraha (literally, "truth-force") which Mahatma Gandhi used in seeking independence from British India. It is never out-of-fashion to speak Truth to Power. But as writer Noam Chomsky asserts: "power knows the truth already, and is busy concealing is.” It is the oppressed who need to hear the truth, not the oppressors. And who can argue with this? As 2020 marched along and COVID-19 continued to worsen, all of us ‘regular’ people knew the virus was spreading and getting worse and yet, those charged with prioritizing fact, science and public wellness, buried the truth...And many more Americans are dead and sick because of it. As the promise of 2021 opens, I’m hopeful that we will have more transparency and more “Truth-Force” in managing the pandemic. Selected Quote: Dr. Fauci described the “liberating feeling” of once again being able to “get up here and talk about what you know — what the evidence, what the science is — and know that’s it, let the science speak.” …see more

This company forces you to take vacations. If you don’t, you don’t get paid. It works. https://lnkd.in/ehjHi_s @Inc

Monday positivity: Things that have benefitted me during shelter-in-place/wfh: - Health and weight loss. I lost 15 lbs, starting with a 30 day cleanse, and now maintain healthy eating every day - Regular exercise. I walk for an hour, and started working out indoors with a pull-up bar and resistance bands, as well as online classes. Cost: $120 total for equipment - Wellness breaks. Every day, I step away from my computer to just relax, unplug, read - and strongly encourage everyone I work with to do the same!! - I sleep earlier and wake up earlier, and I'm not rushed in the morning - New hobbies. I'm learning to dance!! I started practicing last week and having a blast - thankfully in private. Cost of YouTube lessons: $0 - Renewed appreciation and gratitude for my family, my health, and the many conveniences of life that I used to take for granted COVID-19 has taken many things from us. Let's not let it take our spirit and positivity. While practicing #socialdistancing , wearing masks and observing proper hygiene are crucial to #flattenthecurve , maintaining a healthy mental state is just as important. So please stay positive, stay motivated - and most of all, stay healthy!! I would also love to know, what are things that have benefitted you during #shelterinplace /wfh? …see more

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I'm very pleased to share the 200th article on LinkedIn from my colleague and friend, Gordon Orr -->

Honoured to work in partnership with Strive Masiyiwa, Jeff Skoll and the team at Invicta to get much needed bridge ventilators and oxygen helmets to countries across Africa as cases of COVID-19 rise across the continent. I’m so proud of the teams at Virgin Orbit and Virgin Galactic who immediately pivoted their engineering expertise to create low-cost, innovative solutions to save lives. Our foundation, Virgin Unite , will continue to support this partnership and work with its other partners, like Last Mile Health who are mobilising thousands of community health workers, to do what we can to help flatten the curve in Africa. https://virg.in/c9Y …see more

We have just tested the newest member of the Fitbit family, Versa 2. You can read about the failed and fulfilled promises, missed and delivered opportunities of this beautiful smartwatch in our newest article. Have you tried it? What's your experience? https://lnkd.in/gGGQyVg #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #wearable #health #healthy #fromchancetochoice #smartwatch #fitbit #fitbitversa2 …see more

A fascinating deep dive into the world of air con with the Rocky Mountain Institute https://virg.in/iYT #EarthUnscrewed

It's crazy how much content is put out there simply because of the pressures to post daily. People won't forget you [for not posting], any more than they will remember you for posting something irrelevant. #justQ 🖖🏽🖤 …see more