Tincture is still working to find new sources of funding (more on that later!) and so is still “officially” on hiatus, but the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) is important enough that we feel the need to publish some perspectives on it. Founder Jordan Shlain, MD, has already published some thoughts and is planning to continue to post updates, which we plan to publish. We hope they will prove useful.

Tincture has had a great adventure. For the past five years, we’ve been committed to publishing new ideas and new ways in thinking about health, medicine, and healthcare. Our goal has been to inspire and to spark thought, discussion — and action. But it is time to take a break. …

by Amy Heymans In Spring 2019, Mad*Pow’s Center for Health Experience Design partnered with Health 2.0 …

We Want Your Ideas to Make Good Health Part of Everyday Life — By Amy Heymans, Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Mad*Pow U.S. consumers have the highest healthcare spending in the world, yet Americans experience worse health outcomes than counterparts in other westernized countries. In fact, in the last few years, while healthcare costs have continued to rise steadily, the average life expectancy…

by Lisa Suennen We just finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. …

The Hippocratic Oath is one of the cornerstones of the practice of medicine — and has been for over 2,500 years. Healthcare in the 21st century is very different than healthcare in ancient Greece, and increasing different than even in the 20th century. Jordan Shlain, M.D., Tincture’s founder (among other things!), has been calling for a new Hippocratic Oath to suit the modern era, including the expectation that everyone working in healthcare be expected to take and abide by it.

Michael Rich, MD, MPH is the Founder and Director of the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he is known as The Mediatrician®. …

Richie Etwaru is man on a mission. Specifically, he wants ownership of our own data as a new Human Right to join the other 30 Human Rights outlined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He is co-founder and CEO of Hu-manity.co, …

Reto Schegg is the CEO of healthbank, a position he has held since 2013. Based in Switzerland, healthbank is a cooperative centered around ownership and control of one’s own health data. It provides a secure platform for such data, as well as opportunities to monetize it. Prior to healthbank…