On Peer-to-Peer Healthcare and Human-Centered Design
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A health data commons: How bitcoin, decentralization, and non-commercial technology, inspire an opportunity for health data as a public good
Sean Ahrens, Co-founder & designer of Crohnology.com
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Sean Ahrens (http://seanahrens.org/) is the cofounder of Crohnology (http://crohnology.com/), a patient-powered research network that allows any patient to contribute to research for their condition.
At the age of 12, Sean was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, an incurable autoimmune condition of the digestive tract. Sean has since made it his life’s mission to cure this disease by connecting the world’s patients to empower them to collectively contribute towards research for the cure.
Sean is a two-time Y-Combinator, Rock Health, and UC Berkeley alum. As a programmer, user experience designer, and software designer, he has been a founder of, or early hire at, six different SF tech startups. Sean is the subject of two upcoming documentaries on how technology is revolutionizing medicine. Sean studied Computer Science and Business at UC Berkeley.
Sean currently lives in San Francisco, CA. More info on Sean can be found at seanahrens.org (http://seanahrens.org/) and crohnology.com (http://crohnology.com/).
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Networking will begin at 6:30pm; an assortment of beverages will be provided free of charge courtesy of New Relic. The program will begin at 7pm.
On Peer-to-Peer Healthcare and Human-Centered Design