Mark My Words

Today I delivered a 4 minute, 13 slide, lightning talk to a group of 50 healthcare high fliers at a “Future eHealth Systems Master Class” at the University of Leeds on being a digital consumer. Attendees included a Director and Assistant Director at The Health Informatics Service, our NHS Yorkshire and The Humber Chief Information Officer, representatives from BT, CSC, EMIS, and NHS Connecting For Health amongst academics including Mohammad Al-Ubaydli (@idiopathic) of Patients Know Best. Dr Marlene Winfield OBE and Mohammad were a great help and inspiration and lead our section on future uses of technology by patients. I think it went well, although I think I may have lost many with my talk of Facebook and Twitter, especially my high volume of usage! In essence, it was this lack in knowledge of digital generations that I wanted to impress upon them.

The original title of the presentation was “Generation Me!” but after some careful consideration I changed it to “Generation Us!” which exploits the Yorkshire dialect that “us” can mean both “me” and “us”. In Yorkshire you may hear things like “come with us to the shops” which translates to “come with me to the shops”. Funny huh? Other tidbits that I added to the presentation were the utilisation of Web 2.0 using Twitter to crowdsource its definition. Thanks to @amcunningham, @Berci, @tstitt, @Zorg20, @ckorhonen, @aaron116, @dzesika, @Phocion, @ekivemark, @shamsha, @janoldenburg, @hidama, @ThatScottGuy, @shortypedia, @goldenskye, @naimul (although your tweet was NSFW so I couldn’t add it!) for your suggestions.

One comment that I did receive was about the low precision of my Google Reader shared and starred items, although I did state that I am a very general blog subscriber with wide and varied tastes! I envisage that usage by health professionals and patients would be much more focused.

I’m hoping to expand this slide deck into an hour-long presentation on digital consumer use of Web 2.0 technologies in healthcare so watch out for it in the future! But for now, here is my slide deck:

Any thoughts? Remember, this was only a 4 minute presentation!