LXer: The open source prescription for more consumer-driven healthcare
 

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This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NCJoanne Rohde is CEO of Axial Exchange, which creates mobile tools to help patients overcome the challenges of living with chronic disease. She believes healthcare must become more consumer driven and transparent, and she doesn’t believe that’s at odds with patient privacy. Previously, she served as COO and Director of Health IT Strategy at Red Hat and CIO of UBS Investment Banking IT. In her talk at the All Things Open conference in October she will expand on the insights she provides in this interview, from the place where healthcare and technology meet, to include why open source is the answer for better healthcare and how it does not compromise privacy and security.

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