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Why you need a Health Data Spigot [90% Complete]
to get the best available care for yourself and your family
This book is 90% completeLast updated on 2019-10-28
American healthcare has become a rat's nest of brilliant care (it saved my life) hopelessly tangled with a Gordian Knot of boards of directors, each legally tasked with protecting its finances. This collection of essays from the Tincture health blog explains the power of having your health data, so you can act autonomously in time of need.
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Dave deBronkart
Cancer survivor “e-Patient Dave” is an international keynote speaker on healthcare and author of the highly rated Let Patients Help. An MIT management graduate with a career in high tech, he's accomplished communicator and healthcare visionary. A co-founder and chair emeritus of the Society for Participatory Medicine, he has appeared in Time, U.S. News, USA Today, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and the HealthLeaders cover story “Patient of the Future.” His writings have been published in the British Medical Journal, Patient Experience Journal, iHealthBeat, and the conference journal of the American Society for Clinical Oncology. In 2009 HealthLeaders named him and his doctor to their annual list of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better,” and he’s appeared on the cover of Healthcare IT News, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, and the Australian GP magazine Good Practice.
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