Frugal, Global, MobileCollaboration

RADIATION NATION

Matthew Katz

April 30, 2016

Disclosure

Founder and owner, Radiation NationCost: ~US$10,000

Our Challenge

HelpPeople Connect

Access Awareness Collaboration

MotivatePeople to Care

HarnessPeople Power

Access

Mr. John Doe ( General Manager )

• Africa:• 9% annual increase in mobile use, 2015-2016• 23% mobile is broadband

Source: wearesocial.com

Access

Source: wearesocial.com

2015 U.S. Nigeria South AfricaDaily Internet Use 79% 67% 59%Social Media Users

(millions) 192 15 13

Own Mobile/Smartphone 85%/57% 93%/51% 92%/60%

Own Laptop or Desktop 72% 13% 18%Own Tablet 35% ? 7%

% Web Page Traffic: Mobile 27% 82% 75%

Awareness

Mr. John Doe ( General Manager )

Source: Twitter.com

Awareness

Mr. John Doe ( General Manager )

Source: Twitter.com

Collaboration

Mr. John Doe ( General Manager )

• Varying Standards• By institution, professional society

• No Truly Open Platforms• Most limit to certain health professionals• No real inclusion of “amateurs”• Patients• Caregivers• General public

Digital Abundance

• Purpose-based communities use ‘free time’ for social action

• Internet provides• Means• Motive• Opportunity

Rudolf Virchow

“If medicine is to really accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life.”

Social media reaches more people

Bik HM, Goldstein MS. PLOS Biol 2013

• Released late September 2014

• 2 million slide high power fields analyzed within 2 months

Harness Amateurs with Games

DNA Analysis by Smartphone

• 1.5 M chromosomes analyzed in 1 month• Available for iOS, Android

Cancer Research UK, http://bit.ly/1hduzYD

Radiation Nation

MISSION VISION

Mr. John Doe ( General Manager )

Give good people the tools to work together to improve cancer care

To facilitate open, free collaboration in radiation oncology globally

Means

Source: JAMA Oncology, 2016

Means

Methods

• Use Open Platforms, Not Silos

• Aggregate People and Content

#radonc on Twitter

First #radonc journal club

Radiation Oncologists on TwitterRadiation Oncologist Country Twitter Handle Followers

Matthew Katz USA @subatomicdoc 12619

Esam M Murshid Saudi Arabia @emurshid 8829

Shalin Shah USA @ShalinJShahMD 8612

Miriam Knoll USA @MKnoll_MD 3270

Tere Migueláñez Spain @MsConcu 2840

Ian Pereira Canada @IanJohnPereira 2303

Jean-Emmanuel Bibeault France @jebibault 2250

Mary Gospodarowicz Canada @marykge 1751

Virginia Ruiz Spain @roengten66 1592

Jonathan Livergant Canada @jpil 1436

Luis Moreno Sánchez Dominican Republic @radioncoluis 1413

Brandon Mancini USA @brandonmancini 1303

Jean-Christophe Faivre France @JC_Faivre 1393

Richard Simcock United Kingdom @BreastDocUK 1286

Source: Twitter, April 29 2016

Hierarchy of Needs

“Be a good person, a good doctor, a good oncologist, a good radiation oncologist. In that order.”Samuel Hellman

We Need an Ethical, Connected Army

Conclusion• Internet provides

us access to human abundance

• Design for Mobile

• Harness• Professional community• Patients/Caregivers• General Public