This is a quickie post – at long last the video of one of my favorite speeches ever has been unearthed. It was in July in New York, and somehow it got lost, and arrived in my inbox today. (Well, actually, they posted it three months ago but forgot to tell me!)
All’s well that ends well. I just want your help in a BIG push to spread the word about this! Time’s a-wasting!
The event was a conference conducted by our Department of Health & Human Services to educate and encourage software developers about the “Blue Button Plus” initiative. Because I’m on vacation I’ll leave it to you to google that phrase, which is really important for the future of health IT, and not just in America; this innovation initiative will change what patients and families are capable of.
Unfortunately the video crew that day apparently didn’t realize I was showing slides that might also be part of the presentation (d’oh!) so they only took video of me. So the slides are on a separate site, Slideboom, embedded below, and they’re not synchronized to the video – if you want to see both you’ll need two monitors (ugh) and you’ll need to guess at when to click:
Blue Button Plus Developer Conf 7-22-13
iPad and iPhone users, the slide presentation requires Flash, so you won’t be able to view slides until you’re on a computer. That’s because my slides have so many animations. Upgrading my software would cost $400 – sorry.
This talk is different.
This is one of my very few talks that doesn’t tell my cancer story. That’s because:
- There wasn’t time
- It wasn’t important for this audience.
This audience was software developers and entrepreneurs – serious in-the-trenches code writing geeks, and business people trying to find a way to make a buck by creating value in the new world of patient-oriented health data. For both groups I didn’t need to convince them that patients are valuable; whether or not they believe it, it wasn’t the point of this event. For this event I needed to persuade them that:
- Disruptive innovation is real and relevant and possible in health IT
- …including a bit about how disruption works, since most people don’t really know
- Massive improvement is within reach for healthcare, powered by data
- Don’t believe anyone who says “patients can’t handle it” or “medicine is too complicated for data alone to make a difference.” Our culture is full of mythology that impedes common sense innovation in healthcare that other industries take for granted.
I spent almost all my 31 minutes on those points. And I threw everything I had at it – 69 sides in 31 minutes.
Hey techies, any help for this media-merging problem?
This issue of blending content is a constant problem for us speakers who want to show speech video to potential clients. If you know of software that will allow blending a PowerPoint with speaker video (after the fact), we’d love to know about it!
Government as innovator? What? Lets leave that to the private sector Dave.
We all pretty much know that the ONC invested over 600 million into health information exchange and guess what it failed. Isn’t the blue button just their attempt to get patients to carry the torch for them?
Sometimes companies put an advocate (like logging companies putting an environmentalist) on their board but it really isn’t because they support you they just want you to carry the message for them Dave. Think of Docs who pimp for drug companies but thankfully that isn’t what is happening here (Dave is too smart and opinionated to be played thankfully)
Blue Button however reminds me of shifting work to customers that we often see when you call customer service.. Ooops still editing and it posted.. Oh well technology. ;-)
First, feel free to email me the rest of your comment, or just add it here. See my contact link above. (I don’t understand how you managed to say “oops still editing and it posted” after it posted, but whatever.)
Second, waddayou talking about with government as innovator?? This was a conference to teach NON government people the specifics of how to use this new set of standards and guidelines. (Honestly I’ve lost track of exactly what it is, but that’s what the two developer conferences were for. I was making the case for action.)
Third, thanks for being concerned about my protecting my integrity :-) … I only say what I believe, and what I think is good straight-up guidance, no matter who’s paying for what. And as for carrying the message for them – HELL YES it’s MY message! :-) I mean, have you ever heard me yell (or sing) about the value of our data?? :-)
For my context and my motivation, please read my post almost five years ago I’m putting my data in Google and HealthVault. Please do read that and come back and discuss.
btw, please assure me that you watched the video before commenting on my message :-)… Please see also my talk a couple of months later, at the Consumer Health IT Summit, which was another rallying cry to developers to “Make Zoe’s life rock!” … referring to my newborn granddaughter’s upcoming century of life, which I say should be filled with “Apps to the Max” :-).
Re recording voice: I knew this had come up before – the previous post is here, which has a link from Melissa Hogan to this Microsoft discussion Record and time voice narration and pointer movements, with this introduction:
“You can record your slide show prior to sharing it with your audience, or you can record a narration while actively delivering a presentation to a live audience and include their comments and questions in the recording.”
That latter part is what I gotta learn to do! Fortunately I don’t need a live audience – I can try it anytime. So can you, if you use PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) or 2011 (Mac)! I just gotta remember to DO it… and, it requires having a mic plugged into my computer, or else it’ll just record room sound. Room sound is better than nothing, though.
Here is the specific section “Record a narration before or during a slide show”. Thanks, Melissa!