Stanford Summit

Meet Jana Beck: Grad Student with Big Ideas About Diabetes Tech

By MikeH on August 8, 2012

In the second in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest that were announced in June, we’re chatting with a Philadelphia woman who wants to see more integration and feedback factored into diabetes software. Jana Beck is currently finishing a Ph.D. in linguistics and certainly knows her stuff on the patient side, as she was diagnosed almost a decade ago. That came across in her winning video for the challenge.…

Read more »

The Stanford Summit at Med 2.0: A Patient-Reporter’s Notebook

By AmyT on September 23, 2011

* A special report by our Ask D’Mine columnist Wil Dubois *
 
The weather forecast today calls for radical change, patient empowerment, new roles for doctors, and a call for a return to some good old fashioned medicine.
                                Say what?
Last week the ’Mine crew were privileged to attend the day-long Stanford Summit that was part of the larger academic Fourth World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine and…

Read more »