Last night marked the beginning of a new era in the health and medical tech innovation sector in Houston with the launch of a Houston chapter of Health 2.0.
It was a great event – a packed room at the Houston Technology Center that keynote speaker Nate Gross compared favorably to a recent health 2.0 meetup he attended in Silicon Valley. The Medical Futures Lab shared the stage for a while as our own Doctor V gave a keynote on the Changing Face of Medicine in Houston and beyond, saying a few words about how he sees our lab fitting into the bigger picture of medicine in the digital age. He also mentioned the class he and I are currently co-teaching at Rice University, “Medicine in the Age of Networked Intelligence.” (Follow us on twitter at #RiceNetMed and on our class tumblr.)
I was thrilled to meet tons of energetic, talented, and creative people who are excited to engage with the Medical Futures Lab. We’ll be posting news about upcoming projects here, as stay tuned as we gear up for our first symposium, “Millennial Medicine: Knowledge Design for an Age of Digital Disruption” to be held at the Rice BioScience Research Collaborative on April 26, 2013 – everyone is welcome – please join us!