TEDxMaastricht - Lucien Engelen - "Listen to patients and crowdsourcing for life" April 13, 2011

Favorite:

Founding Father & Curator of "The Future of Health" / TEDxMaastricht as well as of the Radboud REshape & Innovation Center, part of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Lucien ( @zorg20 ) shortly addresses how enabling people's energy, innovative ideas and simple solutions can help facing the challenges in health. Lucien talked about how we should listen to patients, for which he appointed a CLO ( Chief Listening Officer) @umcn in his @REshape team. Also he talks about crowd sourcing as a vision and a method to start saving lives, starting today on a worldwide scale.

Their health was taken from them, information about their health is kept away from them and making their own choices about their healthcare is discouraged. Welcome to the world of 'patients' as we regard them today. Patients crave to get (part of) the direction over their health back.

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