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PonderMed #3: Nick Adkins, creator of #pinksocks

March 12, 2018 By Pondering EM 1 Comment

About Nick

Nick Adkins is a healthcare executive and serial healthcare entrepreneur from Nashville, Tennessee. He is the creator of the exponentially growing #pinksocks movement. #pinksocks is a global community trying to the positively affect the world, largely through a variety of missions within healthcare and #digitalhealth.

Nick used to wear a suit and tie to work. After a life-changing experience at Burning Man Festival in 2010 he started wearing a kilt every day and moved to Portland, Oregon.  He now spends his time keynoting at conferences around the world about the importance of human connection (usually in the context of healthcare), and focusing on the abundance of love that exists in our world as opposed to media-fuelled fear. He also serves on the advisory board at Cloudbreak Health, a leading telemedicine company in the US.

The Burning Man principle of Gifting gave birth the #pinksocks movement.

Our conversation

00:24 – How I became exposed to Nick’s work

03:46 – Telemedicine

14:05 – Poor uptake of new technology in NHS hospitals/more on telemedicine

28:42 – US healthcare politics

49:15 – Love More Fear Less

51:38 – The #pinksocks story

Want more from Nick?

Find him on twitter – @nickisnpdx

pinksocks.life

I hope you enjoyed the podcast!

Until next time.

Rob
@PonderingEM

#pinksocks #LOVEMOREfearless

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: #pinksocks, #pinksocks tribe, Casino Healthcare, Cloud break Health, digital health, Nick Adkins, Tedx, TedxSanFrancisco

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  • Adam Walker
  • Andrew Wilkinson
  • John Gilbert
  • Pondering EM

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  1. Ellen Kret says

    March 25, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    Thank you for interviewing new thought leaders in the world of digital health. It’s reassuring to know that new players are entering this field that for too long has been entrenched in old paradigms and out dated business models. Keep the information flow going so the rest of know the options that we need to request from health care institutions and government.

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