Don Fluckinger (twitter, web), please tell us a little about your day job.
I am a reporter for SearchHealthIT.com, covering the wide world of health IT technology and — seems to be growing increasingly important by the minute — effective implementation thereof.
What are you passionate about?
In writing about health IT, it’s clear that technology can only get an organization so far. Enabling better workflows and benefitting patients should be the endgame of all this investment and sweat equity. I’m asking sources to show me how those two objectives will be met, no matter how early in the development cycle a given piece of health IT software or hardware is.
What are you doing to “hack” health care?
Asking contrarian questions of vendors and government thought leaders without regard to whether or not they want to speak with me again for future articles. The health care system has been gutted, economically; there’s no time for tiptoeing through the tulips. We need answers.
Why are you attending HealthCamp Boston?
Because it seems the opposite of the typical vendorfests to which I am ordinarily subjected.
If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Collecting a list of patient and provider grievances about how they’ve personally witnessed health IT (hardware, software) interfere in episodes of care, and how they’d like to see it fixed. Then I’d take it, unvarnished, to the vendors by posting it on our site and Tweeting the tar out of it. Maybe it wouldn’t be successful as Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, but it would be a start.
What kinds of people do you want to meet at HealthCamp?
Super-consumers of health IT who are impatient as I am to see progress.
See you at HealthCamp Boston!
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