Dave deBronkart

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dave deBronkart
Occupation	Blogger
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1950(1950-02-18)
Age	74
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Dave deBronkart Biography

Dave deBronkart is one of the most popular and richest Blogger who was born on February 18, 1950 in United States. Richard Davies deBronkart Jr (born on February 18 1950) popularly referred to as”e-Patient Dave is a cancer survivor writer and blog author who in the year 2009 became an eminent campaigner for the transformation of healthcare through participatory medicine as well as the rights of personal health data.

In September 2009, he presented the keynote address (photo below) in the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto. In the same month, He was featured in the front cover story “Patient of the Future” in Health Leaders magazine. Three months later, the magazine identified him and his doctor Dr. Danny Sands, as two of the “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better”.

In May 2009, citing “a bumpy and public transition of his medical records,” the Boston Globe called him “a recognized online champion of ‘participatory medicine’.”

The timing of the discovery was accidentally important because, at that time, national political negotiations were underway to promote the adoption of computerized medical record systems. Referring to the 2009 ARRA economic stimulus package, the Globe said:

Following a long career in high-tech marketing in Boston These events resulted in healthcare transformation and policy-related issues taking an increasing proportion of the day. In the summer of 2009, he started an advisory business, ePatientDave.com, and went full-time into healthcare in February of 2010. The place he lives is Nashua, New Hampshire.

Dave deBronkart Net Worth

Dave deBronkart is one of the richest Blogger from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dave deBronkart 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In January 2007, a routine shoulder xray revealed a shadow inside the lung. This was later confirmed to be the result of metastasized renal cancer (stage IV Grade 4 renal cell carcinoma). The median time to live at the time of diagnosis of 24 weeks. An active participant in web-based communities from CompuServe was launched in 1989. He reacted to online resources addition to seeking treatment in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Before and throughout his illness, he was writing journal entries and blog posts on his experience. The hospital’s blog was where the patient was identified as “Patient Dave”; upon recovering from near-death, he launched his own blog called “The New Life of Patient Dave.” In January 2008, he was aware about the “e-Patient White Paper” by Dr. Thomas William Ferguson, which detailed how patients use the Internet to actively participate in their medical care. He saw it as a resemblance to his personal actions in the course of his illness , and changed his name to “e-Patient Dave,” and his blog, The New Life of the e-Patient Dave.

deBronkart became a frequent speaker at healthcare industry conferences. He was the first patient to deliver the opening keynote at a Medicine 2.0 conference, and spoke at many others throughout 2009.

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In March 2010 his hospital invited his participation as a voice of the patient in their annual Lean quality improvement workshop. A series of blog posts described the experience.

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Dave Ranked on the list of most popular Blogger. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dave deBronkart celebrates birthday on February 18 of every year.

In April 2011 he gave a talk at TED (conference), set up by Lucien Engelen (of the Radboud University Medical Center), that got featured on the TED.com platform.