Gimme My DaM Data: The Deloitte health IT guys rock out

Well.

I haz been busy this week, so only tonight did I get around to absorbing this project that my buddy Ross Martin has had in the works for a while.

Remember the “e-Patient Rap” in my “Let Patients Help” talk from TEDx Maastricht? Lyrics by Keith Boone:

I wanna be a e-patient
just like Dave
Gimme My Damn Data!
‘Cause it’s MY life to save!

Well, Ross wrote a decidedly non rap riff, set to “Blue Suede Shoes.” He first introduced it (karaoke) at the big HIMSS health IT convention a couple weeks ago, but then he got together in someone’s garage with fellow Deloitters Harry Greenspun and Chris Brancato, with Harry’s son Ben on lead guitar and drums. (Awesome break, Ben!) Dig it:

Better yet, it’s participatory and crowdsourced: they’re collecting clips of you doing a phrase (or more), for the final video! See instructions here.

Lyrics:

Gimme My Damn Data
(in Honor of Dave (e-Patient Dave) deBronkart–to “Blue Suede Shoes”)

Well it’s one for the doctor
Two for the nurse
You say you’re tryin’ to treat me
So don’t make me feel worse

Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
It’s all about me so it’s mine

You can cut out my heart
Take it to the dump
Feed it to the dogs
Replace it with a pump
You can make me pop pills
Just to keep me alive
But there’s one more thing
I gotta have to survive

Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
It’s all about me so it’s mine

You can drug me up
To treat my gloom
Lock me up
In a rubber room
You can tie me down
And shock my brain
But just one cure’s
Gonna ease my pain

Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
Gimme My Damn Data
It’s all about me so it’s mine

You can send me your bill
Charge me anything
Drive a nice car
Live like a king
With all the dough
That I pay
Tell me why is it so hard
To get my data right away

Gimme My Damn Data (gimme my data!)
Gimme My Damn Data (gimme my data!)
Gimme My Damn Data
It’s all about me so it’s mine

Gimme, gimme – gimme it’s mine
Gimme, gimme – gimme it’s mine
Gimme, gimme – gimme it’s mine, mine, mine
Gimme, gimme – gimme it’s mine
Gimme My Damn Data
It’s all about me so it’s mine

Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA, FACMImimi
21 February 2012
(c)2012 The American College of Medical Informatimusicology