{"id":4281,"date":"2009-12-27T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:33:34","slug":"the-quantified-patient-my-talk-at-quantified-self-showtell-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/12\/the-quantified-patient-my-talk-at-quantified-self-showtell-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Quantified Patient”: my talk at “Quantified Self” show&tell, December 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Quantified Self<\/a> (aka “QS”) is an informal San Francisco based group of people who are tracking one thing or another about their lives. (Could it exist anywhere else??) They have occasional “Show&Tell” meet-ups, with elbow-rubbing and a series of quick talks, 10-15 minutes each.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I was in town for a talk at the northern California chapter of HIMSS<\/a> on personal health records. Matthew Holt of Health 2.0<\/a> and The Health Care Blog<\/a> told me QS was meeting that Monday, at the headquarters of Wired <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n

I registered, and at the end it asked “You wanna present?”\u00a0 I never <\/em>say no to that, though I didn’t know what I’d talk about.<\/p>\n

Turns out host Gary Isaac Wolf was really interested in the little spreadsheet where I’d tracked my tumor sizes as my treatment progressed. :\u2013) So in the context of “quantified self,” my topic became “the quantified patient.”<\/p>\n

This is an informal production \u2013 audio from a camcorder (no mic) blended with my slides and a few other images. It\u00a0was fun: a responsive, engaged audience. Thanks to the QS gang for the opportunity.
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