My 8 followers on Weibo (Chinese equivalent of Twitter)

Really love this one!

Have signed with an Oxford UK publishing house a contract for 3 fictions, which should all be out before April 2017.

Doomsdare, a medical thriller (action taking place in Beijing)
Jesus CRISPR Superstar, a sci-fi, written with Isabelle Provost
French version of the sci-fi: La Passion Du CRISPR.

Then, from April 2017 on, will spend one year in Asia, emphasis on China. My very recent stays in Beijing? A shock, an ongoing one, one foot in fairy tale (thank you Cixin Liu) one foot in abyss (hashtag airpocalypse). Have seen a few things about the development of mHealth in China and want to explore... Thank you Jean-Michel Billaut (French blogger) for the tutorial sessions that should help me find ways to monetize those stays in Asia...

My (modest) mHealth Silk Road (LOL) project: Will explore startup incubators in Malaysia (Cyberjaya), North of Thailand and various parts of China from April to (at least) December 2017...

Have a passion for Chinese language and civilization anyway...

Of course, will attend mHealth congresses in China wearing Regina Holliday's jacket -- the one she painted for me... Chinese people usually love this jacket (from what I saw on a couple of opportunities in Beijing and Shanghai)...

8 followers on Weibo already, including Veritas Genetics (Shanghai), hopefully soon 12...

Sci-writing in Beijing

Leaving #Beijing in a couple of days, working hard on my #mhealth #scifi in #China. Hope my friend Canadian lawyer David Kilgour will be proud...

http://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/1734/the-best-instagram-photos-from-harbins-airpocalypse

This fiction has been such an emotional journey for me... Hoping that one day, it will be translated into Chinese...
On the plane I read... this, from cover to cover. Totally addicted to this trilogy (learning Chinese so I can read the 3rd volume that is currently being translated into English, not yet available haha)...

My Health Upgraded, by Berci Mesko MD

My review of "My Health Upgraded" by @Berci on #Amazon https://www.amazon.com/review/R3L7Z8ZYPKIGI3/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=6158026107 #PWSYN #HIMSS16

http://www.epatientdave.com/2015/09/22/bercis-my-health-upgraded-a-futurist-vision-worthy-of-doc-tom

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3L7Z8ZYPKIGI3/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=6158026107

"My Health Upgraded" by Berci Mesko MD

Opening of Berci's book: "My Health Upgraded"

The health app I find most interesting is capturing data on stress & emotions; not a fitness app: @empatica #mHealth https://t.co/C4YVxdlZJ9

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) January 22, 2016

Reading Berci's book, preparing my review on Amazon...

checking out the newest generation in #biosensors @empatica #embrace #wearables. @ToxInNewEngland @Dr_Carreiro pic.twitter.com/ihSRJo2Xhc

— Peter Chai (@PeterRchai) January 15, 2016

Eric Topol MD's 2.0 version is Hero 6's Baymax

"Medical Blockbuster of the Year" (Forbes):

This book already exists as a fiction, by the way... So the 2.0 version of Eric Topol MD would be... Baymax. Healthcare artist and activist Regina Holliday will love this! Baymax Will See You Now.

"On a scale from 1 to 10..."

"My hands are equipped with defibrillators...Clear."

Actually, Baymax could be quite helpful in "genomic" precision medicine... Who will build him? The IBM of health care or some MIT students, in some kind of open-source mode? Intellectual Property and Digital Rights Management are building tomorrow's empires... San Franciskyoto Side Story...

Gym-reading

Gym-reading #Bondibeach #Sydney #mHealth #biology #python pic.twitter.com/UE5EGwLUGj

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) January 12, 2016

Doctor Sheldon Cooper and the Chastity-Belt-in-Reverse Theory

"Le génome est le microprocesseur de la matière vivante"

The genome is the microprocessor of all living matter @Billaut http://t.co/SytpfowD8R pic.twitter.com/9rkHMfm00p

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) August 8, 2015

Citation de Jean-Michel Billaut, août 2015

"Why Bio Is The New Digital" Joi Ito MIT Media Lab

Standardizing experimentation system (fixing broken science): reproducibility of experiment -> #wetlab in the #cloud pic.twitter.com/V942AoI6Zj

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) July 26, 2015

APIs Are Not Copyright Material

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/bad-news-supreme-court-refuses-review-oracle-v-google-api-copyright-decision

Cloud Week Paris

http://www.cloudweekparis.fr

My questions: we will be managing our health in the (our own) cloud. Biology is quantitative. Medicine is exponential. Treatment is dimensional. The medical data brokers are coming. Will patients own their own data? Revolution? ...

http://billautshow.tv/Patrick-Merel-Portable-Genomics

Cloud lab, anyone? @EmeraldDNA #CloudWeek http://t.co/7ROJtpX4ZE @thomasjkerjean @Billaut @FayekRacha @ravi_nambiar pic.twitter.com/ESrTBnbaqi

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) July 6, 2015

La France raterait-elle le virage de la e-santé ?

La revue Hospitalia.. vient de publier une e-interview de ma pomme sur la e-santé... Bonne lecture.. http://t.co/Aziqkr6EnM

— Jean Michel Billaut (@Billaut) May 4, 2015

From Hippocrates to IBM Watson

From Hippocrates to @IBMWatson: #ehealth Newsletter #3 by @Billaut http://t.co/uTVNWMwtk1 The big star is @scanadu @walterdebrouwer #PWSYN
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) April 25, 2015

The Patient Will Store His Own Data Now

The patient will store his own data now -> genome, microbiome etc. #PWSYN TY @h2so4hurts for expertise @Paul_Sonnier pic.twitter.com/GEynzovI8L
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) April 24, 2015

FB

30 Terabytes de données stockables. Je vais pouvoir stocker mon génome dans le TurboNAS ->personal cloud @Billaut pic.twitter.com/e34WQGzu9g
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) April 23, 2015

"How to volunteer yourself as a citizen laboratory rat"

Open-source health apps: Kitted out http://t.co/zTe80eKaJE via @TheEconomist "How to volunteer yourself as a citizen laboratory rat"
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) March 12, 2015

The Patient Will See You Now

Research kit launched by @Apple today including @StanfordMed new app #MyHeartCounts http://t.co/ZipMfxUTWl
— Euan Ashley (@euanashley) March 9, 2015

Researchkit: moving from collecting patient data every 3 months to every second https://t.co/EXSr6z8WSY ht @wilbanks
— Richard Sever (@cshperspectives) March 9, 2015

"The Patient Will See You Now"

"The Patient Will See You Now" by @EricTopol Impressive editorial reviews on Amazon. Book will be out 01-6-2015 #CDoM pic.twitter.com/Kk8RSnR1E4
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) October 27, 2014

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My review of this book:

My Body, My Data. Welcome To "The iMedicine Galaxy"

When I met with dying Steve Jobs, I knew nothing about genomics. But I knew a thing or two about patronizing doctors and grey areas of ethics in the field of organ replacement medicine. I had been working with surgeons in the USA and in Europe. I also knew that Steve Jobs' liver transplant in 2009 wouldn't save his life forever, as the immunosuppressive drugs he had to take daily would probably cause his cancer to come back. You see, a transplant is not a cure. Steve Jobs at the end of his life was fascinated by genomic precision medicine: get to know your genome, monitor and own you own medical data, become the C.E.O. of your health. "Yes, Sir, but how do I get to do that?" 

I clearly remember Steve Jobs' answer to my question (early 2011): "Follow Eric Topol on twitter and Eric Lander PhD's MIT MOOC in genomics." 

I did both. Earned myself two MITx certificates in genomics (no prior scientific background), have been spying on Eric Topol's twitter account for years, day after day after day. I cannot thank him (and his dream team at Scripps) enough for this book, as its provides the reader with all the information enclosed in countless tweets over the years, adding something essential in the process: slices of life that patients had been willing to share, through him, with us. 

I cannot thank Eric Tool (and his dream team at Scripps) enough for this book, as its provides the reader with all manner of scientific information on personalized medicine, a whole variety of charts allowing us to get some closer and nuanced insight about complex matters in the blink of an eye, adding something essential in the process: slices of life that patients had been willing to share with us. Spoiler alert: you will read about Angelina Jolie’s choice, gaining an insider view. 

What this book does best is that it connects all the dots. My body, my data, right? What's less obvious is how we are going to do that. Putting the patient at the center of the health care system? "Evidence VS eminence-based medicine?" It has never been achieved before. Where are the medical data brokers? Will they work for conglomerates or for the patients? Will they sell our data without our consent? Will I be able to download my genome on my iPhone and show it to my genome-savvy doctor? How about the privacy and the ownership of the medical data that will be stored in clouds and shared? Connecting the dots is the job that gets done in this book. "it doesn't take a village, it takes a galaxy". A galaxy of startups.

In this book, you get to meet the ecosystem that will do just that: connecting the dots. Theranos, Illumina, 23andMe, Edico Genome, Philips Healthcare, Salesforce, IBM Watson. The transition won't be seamless, neither will it be effortlessly easy. Also, I found answers to my queries: will doctors become obsolete? No. Will computer coding become central in medicine? Yes. Is there a good model of ownership of genomic data? Yes. Will patients worldwide have to do an amazing job of data sharing to cure and prevent diseases like cancer? Yes. "The most far-reaching opportunity that lies ahead for governments around the world is the support and promotion of massive online open medicine (MOOM) -- the planetary database of everyone's de-identified GIS that enables matching the best-known treatment and outcomes for all human beings.»

My GIS is the google Maps of my own health. Genome, metabolome, microbiome (which can be defined as the proxy of our diseases). Medicine will be quantitative. Traditional medicine (knowledge of the organs) is not quantitative. We have few vital organs, and an awful lot of base pairs in our genome. Never thought of it this way? See, like 99% of the people, you don’t have an inkling of how fast this revolution is coming. Will the patient (as opposed to the app, the software, the doctor, the drugs, the patents, the norms, protocols, procedures and guidelines and billing) be put at the center of the healthcare system? 

I value this book because, as a citizen, I want to become "a worthy partner in the co-production of medical intelligence." (Kim Goodsell, as quoted in this book.)

I was given a free copy of this book.

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We don't think genomic precision medicine should be #BigPharma turning drug market into highly profitable niche #PWSYN

http://youtu.be/mVkPgOg7hAw

EdX MITx MOOC course 7.QBWx Quantitative Biology Workshop July 2014

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