Hacking Healthcare
By Dr. Kevin Maloy, June 2014
What happens when you teach first year medical student to code and be entrepreneurs?
Answer: Great prototypes of original ideas on volunteering in hospitals, choosing a doctor for a virtual visit, and visualizing the business health of a medical practice.
At the advice of a long time friend, I decided to teach an eight class selective at Georgetown University School of Medicine called “Hacking Healthcare.” I would teach medical student front end web coding. Besides specializing in Emergency Medicine, I consider learning to code HTML/CSS/Javascript to be one of the turning points in my career. Coding let me stop being strictly an “idea guy,” and rather become an agent of implementation. I wanted to share this ability to make ideas happen with a new generation of medical students. Most medical professionals are great at analysis and criticism, however, few are able to create. I wanted to teach them to create.
I had four guiding principles More
Mike Bright: Another instance of microvolunteering in hospitals is this call-out for research on how microvolunteering actions might benefit a patient. http://helpfromhome.org/do-more/volunteer-for-us/promoting-microvolunteering-to-hospitals