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Data Empathy: Learning from health care
I just published an essay on Medium about what the dinosaurs of health care can teach health startups. Nude pictures of celebrities stolen from their own iCloud accounts. Facebook experimenting with the emotions in their users’ feeds. Google reading Gmail before their users do. Fitness trackers without privacy policies, vulnerable to security breaches, and bait-and-switch […]
HealthFoo Ignite Talk: Let’s Flip the Chart
This ignite talk was prepared for HealthFoo 2013 in San Francisco, California, and is about the great variety of ways that “data” can be interpreted by the different participants in modern health care.
In the Battle Over Personal Health Data, 23andMe and the FDA Are Both Wrong
Just wrote for Slate’s Future Tense on the current regulator battles over personal health data. Last month, the FDA told 23andMe to stop marketing direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits. The FDA wants assurance that the company has “analytically or clinically validated” the genetic data that they provide their customers. The company has claimed that it provides […]