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"How One Tweet from Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak Changed A Patient's World"
"Could this be one small step for man, one giant step for mankind?"

Hugo Campos, Data Liberation Advocate

"MD+DI Top 10 industry influencer, and relentless hounder of Medtronic to get access to raw data from his implantable heart device, has finally gotten what he wanted—or at least some of it. For the first time, medical device giant Medtronic has made Campos's raw ICD data available to him. Campos has been given a document in an XML format through his care provider, Stanford Hospital & Clinics. He believes a tweet from CEO Omar Ishrak may have precipitated this windfall.

Campos met with Medtronic officials in Minneapolis in early 2012 having been on a very public crusade to get access to and control of his implanted defibrillator data. But while the conversation began even before Omar Ishrak, Medtronic's CEO, joined the company, nothing much came of it - or nothing that Campos could visibly see, he said in an interview Thursday. 
Things appeared to reignite after a Twitter exchange after Ishrak posted a simple tweet..."

Read more here:

http://www.mddionline.com/article/how-one-tweet-medtronic-ceo-omar-ishrak-changed-patients-world

Impressive fight... for the right cause. Patients' health data belongs to them, not to MDs or companies... Think this goes without saying? If so, how come we need people such as "Data Liberation Advocates"?...