{"id":16274,"date":"2014-05-15T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2014-05-14T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:47:16","slug":"uri-goren-tedxhit-video-patients-are-not-empty-carriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2014\/05\/uri-goren-tedxhit-video-patients-are-not-empty-carriages.html","title":{"rendered":"Uri Goren TedxHIT video: Patients are Not Empty Carriages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uri Goren is the General Manager of e-Pochonderiac a blog about healthcare and digital technology and also a digital health consultancy and agency working in Israel to support digital health in the local health and pharmaceutical industry and to promote the roll of the patient in the healthcare ecosystem. This venture has begun from a professional standpoint as a communication and digital professional working with industry and in it for the past 13 years, but also from a personal standpoint as one who accompanied his father in his battle with cancer. Uri holds a B.A in Communication and Management from the College of Management and an M.A in Philosophy and Digital Culture from the Tel Aviv University. Uri is a member of the Society for Participatory Medicine and the Israeli chapter of Health 2.0.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Uri presented a talk at TEDxHIT:\u00a0Uri Goren: Patient are not an empty carriage<\/a>\u00a0Here’s a brief description about the talk:<\/p>\n

Through my personal experience as a caregiver for my father during his fight with Lymphoma and also my professional experience I came to realize that patients hold the key to transforming healthcare. In this talk I try to\u00a0bring this point through a metaphor taken from the history of Israel, and also emphasize the role of digital tools as a having a key role in the transformation needed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
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