Dr. Amy Lehman is the founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic (LTFHC). LTFHC is an international organization whose mission is to address the problem of health care access and education for isolated communities in the Lake Tanganyika basin/Great Lakes region in Central Africa. In her role, Amy has become knowledgeable in multiple ancillary fields including water security, food security, environmental conservation, rural development, mineral rights and mining issues, Great Lakes global security issues, and the rural digital divide. Amy trained [...]
Dr. Amy Lehman, Founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic
Matt Jameson Evans, Co-founder and Chairman, HealthUnlocked
Interview with Dr Thom Van Every, Founder of DrThom
Interview with Dr. Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, Founder & CEO of Patients Know Best
Interview with Mr Mark Slack, Consultant Surgeon, Academic and Innovator
Interview with Dr. Jonathan Bloor
Interview with Dr. Alexander Finlayson
Matt Jameson Evans is a UK doctor and co-founder of HealthUnlocked.com. His background is in orthopaedic surgery and medical politics. He trained in Guys, Kings + St Thomas’ Hospital, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London (1995-2008). In 2006 he founded the online Doctors Organisation ‘Remedy UK’ and quickly generated a following of 15,000 UK doctors, lobbying medical issues in the Houses of Parliament and throughout the UK mainstream media. In 2008 he co-founded HealthUnlocked with business partner Jorge Armanet. [...]
I’m a doctor from the UK. Here’s how it works: I have patients in hospital. They are sick. It’s my job to make sure they survive and then to try to make them better. However, I don’t have the tools that could help make my job easier. Considering I can talk to my smartphone and tell it to send a message to my dad or remind me to water the plants when I get home – why is it [...]
Doctorpreneurs has partnered with Doctors 2.0 and You to offer you the chance to win a place at their 2 day meeting in Paris on May 23rd-24th. “The second edition of the must-attend annual health care social media conference in Paris ; the only international congress devoted to the understanding of how physicians use New Technologies, Web 2.0 tools and Social Media to communicate with other health care professionals, patients, payers, pharmaceutical companies, public agencies… ” Here is the [...]
For all of you waiting to join the Doctorpreneurs Network once it’s up and running – here’s a great way to start getting connected right now – the new Doctorpreneurs LinkedIn Group! Plenty of interesting posts and links to forthcoming events have gone up already so do join here. Doctorpreneurs is a networking group for medics and other professionals interested in tackling important problems in healthcare through innovation and entrepreneurship. Who should join: Medic-entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs and professionals [...]
Thom Van Every trained at the University of Birmingham Medical School and graduated in 1995. He worked as a junior doctor in London, Jersey and Cape Town before specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was awarded his MRCOG in 2000 and then left full time clinical medicine to study an MBA at London Business School. After his MBA he worked for Deloitte Consulting before setting up DrThom.com and co-founding a private medical insurance company called PatientChoice. DrThom was purchased by the national pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy [...]
With an increasing number of events focused on startups, technology and innovation in healthcare cropping up across the globe, we’ve started to compile a list of some of the most interesting and relevant to our readers. Here I share details of some of what’s happening over the next few months – do keep an eye on our events pages as we’ll be updating the list regularly. I’d like to make a bit of a plug for the Berlin Summit [...]
Mohammad is founder and CEO of Patients Know Best. He has over 15 years of experience in medical software. He trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge, worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health and was a management consultant to US hospitals at The Advisory Board Company. He is the author of seven books, including Personal health records: A guide for clinicians and Streamlining Hospital-Patient Communication: Developing High Impact Patient Portals. He is also an honorary senior [...]
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