Health 2.0 2013, Day Two

Another day of relentless torrents of great information. Random photo walk follows. I can't put names to a lot of these faces now. Suffice it to say they were all wonderful. I will fill in the blanks with names and narrative as I can.

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Health 2.0 2013 Day One. Lights, cameras, action!

An exciting day. Information overload. All of it good. A pulsing assemblage of incredibly smart, positive, enthusiastic, engaged people. Maybe we should pay to have them all shipped to DC to occupy Congress to actually get stuff done.

So, who do I run into first thing in the morning, at the Hospital Innovation Roundtable? My Sensei, Farzard Mostashari. Outgoing head of ONC (my former "big boss" during my REC tenure). Gracious and unflappable as ever. That made my day right at the outset.

 

Claudia Williams, ONC director of Health Information Exchange, and Farzad

None of us know what he'll do next. But, I have no doubt he'll do great things. The federal shutdown meant that he had to return to DC last night. Irritated that I won't get to pick his brain.

Below, another of my heroes is here, medical economist and author J.D. Kleinke.

One independent, iconoclastic thinker. this man. Some Kleinke pearls:

• "There are only three kinds of economists. Those who can count and those who can't."
• "ObamaCare is a radical expansion of the status quo."

Below, the cheerfully animated Missy Krasner of MorgenThaler lights up the crowd at DC to VC. I saw her later in the day and told her she could be doing great stand-up. She's a natural.

Much more to ponder and write up. Quick photo essay for now, gotta get ready to head back over to the convention center for Day Two.

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Health 2.0 EDU day

Off to a fine start. Great presentations thus far (including the opening keynote by Health 2.0 impresario Matthew Holt). Crappy lighting, though, and it's gotten uncomfortably cold.

Got here in about 75 minutes. There was essentially no traffic.

The salient question for this conference series, I suppose.

Deven McGraw of the Center for Technology and Democracy

Predrag “Pedja” Klasnja on effective design of "Behavioral Change Technology"

Ann Mond Johnson was simply fabulous. Great presentation

End of day round table.

The "geospatial technology" presentation was OK.
Seemed a bit "OK, what's new?" dated to me.

 OK, below, first time I ever encountered anyone wearing Google Glass. Beyond its current "conspicuous consumption" status, it's kinda creepy, as some critics have claimed. I sort of turned the tables on him.

...It's easy to see why the built-in camera on Glass is raising privacy concerns —even though smartphones already make it easy for people to take a photo or record video at almost any time in just about any situation. Google says Glass isn't that much different. The company has tried to minimize the chances of surreptitious photos or video being taken by ensuring a red light is visible whenever an image is being recorded.

Nevertheless, Glass has already been banned from gambling casinos, movie theaters and some bars to protect against cheating, copyright infringement and privacy intrusions...

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CODA: Props to Robin Friedlander, MD. She ran a tight ship, adroitly keeping everyone on schedule.
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