American - Businessman | February 3, 1984 -
Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.
Elizabeth Holmes
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We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
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Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
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I love adventures.
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With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.
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No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.
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Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
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The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
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I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.
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It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.
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The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
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My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
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