I learned on Twitter that this conference was happening today and I have been listening to the live stream this morning http://www.tedxmaastricht.nl/live/ whilst cataloguing as an experiment. This raises the question "What is TED" in my mind. I discover it is an organisation that enables live talks on new ideas to be broadcast across the net and the world. The TED [according to Wikipedia it stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design] website holds a bank of previous talks by Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leaders of their fields.
The TEDxMaastricht conference centres around Health innovation.
Frans Hiddeman, CEO of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital talked about reducing risk and reducing patient fear. It was discovered that planes often crashed because the teams were too hierarchical and pilots took off whilst their teams had safety doubts. As a result teams are now less higerarchical and more equal and there are fewer accidents. The hospital re-trained their own teams to work better together and safety was improved. They "seduced" the staff into CPD programs by offering them exercises in flight simulators to reproduce the sort of passenger takeover scenarios remembered from Air disaster movies.
Patients who are afraid take longer to get better and have more accidents: the hospital reduces fear by being completely open, insisting that patients are accompanied by a family member or friend at all consultations so that they can remember what is said, and finding means (giving them a plastic eyeball or taking a photo with the doctor) to allow the patient to talk about their experience.
Jan Gunnarsson spoke about an inspiring bus driver who welcomed each day and each customer as a unique opportunity for life. Jan has sought help from hundreds of self help books and conferences in his quest to welcome himself as a person which he sees as a person's first responsibility in life. This ties in with what the main speaker, Simon Sinek seems to have said, which was reportedly that we must never lose sight of the reason WHY we are doing our jobs, and that organisations "split" i.e. become moribund and institutionalised with beurocracy. He insisted that people should be authentic as individuals in order to perform and interrelate well.
Ragna Arnott Van-den Berg, a former social worker who recovered from an annurism, spoke about the importance of patient's feeling that they were the captains of their own ships: she had been advised to try anti-psychotic drugs to cope with her aversion to light and loud noises but had decided only to try this as a last resort at some future time. Patient empowerment was the watchword of the morning.
The most interesting speaker was Daniel Kraft, inventor of a better way to harvest bone marrow. He spoke about the process of getting new invention through the stringent regulatory routes. He talked about new mobile technology that Doctors can take anywhere which had the potential to access electronic patient records. Nanotechnology includes an ipill which you swallow which can then provide diagnostic information as well as the technology to convert skin cells to stem cells. Patients can carry around their own apps and record and monitor their own activities which reduces the need for hospitalisation in a trend called "the quantified self."
And whilst listening to all this I catalogued eight books, so it was a good experiment.
The TEDxMaastricht conference centres around Health innovation.
Frans Hiddeman, CEO of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital talked about reducing risk and reducing patient fear. It was discovered that planes often crashed because the teams were too hierarchical and pilots took off whilst their teams had safety doubts. As a result teams are now less higerarchical and more equal and there are fewer accidents. The hospital re-trained their own teams to work better together and safety was improved. They "seduced" the staff into CPD programs by offering them exercises in flight simulators to reproduce the sort of passenger takeover scenarios remembered from Air disaster movies.
Patients who are afraid take longer to get better and have more accidents: the hospital reduces fear by being completely open, insisting that patients are accompanied by a family member or friend at all consultations so that they can remember what is said, and finding means (giving them a plastic eyeball or taking a photo with the doctor) to allow the patient to talk about their experience.
Jan Gunnarsson spoke about an inspiring bus driver who welcomed each day and each customer as a unique opportunity for life. Jan has sought help from hundreds of self help books and conferences in his quest to welcome himself as a person which he sees as a person's first responsibility in life. This ties in with what the main speaker, Simon Sinek seems to have said, which was reportedly that we must never lose sight of the reason WHY we are doing our jobs, and that organisations "split" i.e. become moribund and institutionalised with beurocracy. He insisted that people should be authentic as individuals in order to perform and interrelate well.
Ragna Arnott Van-den Berg, a former social worker who recovered from an annurism, spoke about the importance of patient's feeling that they were the captains of their own ships: she had been advised to try anti-psychotic drugs to cope with her aversion to light and loud noises but had decided only to try this as a last resort at some future time. Patient empowerment was the watchword of the morning.
The most interesting speaker was Daniel Kraft, inventor of a better way to harvest bone marrow. He spoke about the process of getting new invention through the stringent regulatory routes. He talked about new mobile technology that Doctors can take anywhere which had the potential to access electronic patient records. Nanotechnology includes an ipill which you swallow which can then provide diagnostic information as well as the technology to convert skin cells to stem cells. Patients can carry around their own apps and record and monitor their own activities which reduces the need for hospitalisation in a trend called "the quantified self."
And whilst listening to all this I catalogued eight books, so it was a good experiment.
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