'It is their passing that keeps me going'

Here is a great article about Community Education Group that is doing great things to support better health in some of the most under privileged area of our nation's capital.

I am proud to be part of a team that is supporting CEG's mission to improve the health of the community they serve.

http://mobile.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/global-pulse/hiv-aid...

Mark Scrimshire
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In tune with Promoting Health Awareness - The American College of Medical Informatimusicology @Acmimimi

I am proud to have been inducted as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatimusicology. This came about through the secret session at Health 2.0 in September 2011. A secret RainbowButton Initiative video was recorded with a cast of many and music provided by the esteemed ACMimimi Founder - Ross Martin. Details are here on the ACMimimi.org site.

Here is the video:

and here is my fellowship certificate that I am proud to display....

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Another one bites the dust…Is @jawbone UP ready for primetime or will Nike Fuelband steal the market?

I have been wearing my jawbone UP for some time now. I must admit I don't use it as much as the fitbit. I am on my second UP wristband. The first one refused to charge or sync unless you stretched it - see my earlier blog about this. I was hoping that the updated UP would have fixed the early production issues.

The replacement fared better. Admittedly the cap lasted only a few weeks. It is not a skier friendly design. The cap gets caught in clothing and pops off easily. Never to be seen again. Definitely a design flaw where you loose the one piece of the device that carries the logo. I just kept thinking - this would never have made it out of the Apple design studios...

In the last couple of weeks the UP had become increasingly temperamental at syncing. I had to try to sync multiple times before it would actually complete a sync. Then this weekend it just died. No lights. No vibration. Nothing. 

I left the UP to charge for two days but no deal it is still dead. I think jawbone have some work to do on the design of this product. Unfortunately time is slipping away for them. The Nike+ Fuelband

 has been launched and is an interesting design that will leverage an embedded infrastructure that Nike has nurtured with Apple. I have to get my hands on a Nike+ Fuelband

 to try out and see how it fits in to my daily life. 

Mark Scrimshire
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The Patient and The Life Record. Consumer Health Data Dwarfs the EMR.

KevinMD has a great post on his blog:

Who should control cradle to grave patient health records?

The answer is the Patient. We need a life record. We don't know what information will be relevant until it is too late. Let's use big data and what computers are good at to store  filter and analyze our health data - from all sources.

Consumer generated health data is already dwarfing the data that health providers have on us in their EMRs.

I pointed this out recently in my presentation at HIMSS12 Leading From The Future: 

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Posterous Finds A Home In The Arms Of Twitter | TechCrunch

Twitter just announced that it has acquired Posterous, the Y Combinator-backed blogging and sharing platform that competed early on with Tumblr.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Posterous had raised $10.1 million in two venture rounds plus early seed funding from investors including Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures and Jafco Ventures. I’d suspect it’s a similar outcome to what happened with Gowalla’s deal with Facebook, where talented employees find a soft landing at an acquirer with a shared mission. There were already some ties between the two companies. Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter, was also an advisor to Posterous.

Posterous says its service Spaces will stay up and running and that the company will give plenty of notice to users if they start to change the service.

An early competitor to Tumblr, Posterous was known for the savvy way it combined e-mail and other channels to allow users to post content from any type of web application. But it didn’t have quite the same traction as New York-based rival Tumblr and early founders like Garry Tan departed for greener pastures at places like Y Combinator, where he eventually became a partner. It evolved and late last year, the company released Spaces, a way to privately share photos with friends or family.

Here’s Posterous’ statement:

March 12, 2012 Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter
Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter!
The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share our vision for making sharing simpler.

Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.

You can find more information answers to other questions you may have here.

Finally, we’d like to offer thanks to all of our users, especially those who have been with Posterous since day one. The last four years have been an amazing journey. Your encouragement, praise and criticism have made us better. Thanks for that. We look forward to building great things for you over at Twitter.

And here’s Twitter’s statement:

Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter. This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple—a goal we share. Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.

Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.

We’re always looking for talented people who have the passion and personality to join Twitter. Acquisitions have given us people and technology that have enabled us to more quickly build a better Twitter for you.

Crunchbase

• POSTEROUS

Company: Posterous

Website: posterous.com

Launch Date: May 2008

Funding: $10.1M

Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company is bringing its trademark simplicity to help people share smarter with intuitive privacy controls to share selectively across multiple platforms.

Learn more

via techcrunch.com

Posterous is my go to service for publishing to Social Media. Please Twitter don't disrupt this incredibly valuable and easy to use service.

The only improvement we really need is an easier way to remove spam comments.

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HealthCamp meets StarTrek: James T. Kirks Rules of Leadership parallel HealthCa.mp

There is a great article in Forbes by Alex Knapp on the Five Leadership lessons from James T. Kirk.

As a long time StartTrek fan I had to read the article. It got me thinking (Always dangerous I know!).

There are many parallels between Kirk's leadership style and active participation in HealthCamp. 

Make sure you read the Forbes article but here is a quick summary:

1. Never Stop Learning

2. Have Advisors with Different World Views

3. Be Part of the Away Team

4. Play Poker, Not Chess

5. Blow Up the Enterprise

How do these Leadership rules apply to HealthCamp?

1. Never Stop Learning: Participants at HealthCa.mp are not a passive audience. They are active participants. The opportunities to learn new things is only limited by your willingness to engage with others before, during and after the event. This also directly links to rule number 2...

2. Have Advisors with Different World Views: HealthCa.mp brings together people from across the health care spectrum and beyond. The diversity of world views is one of the true strengths of the experience. The different perspectives that each participant brings sheds new light and triggers insights in to challenges people have been facing. 

3. Be Part of the Away Team: Participating in a HealthCa.mp is exactly like leading an Away Team. When participants step out of their every day working environments and meet with people that they do not normally have opportunity to meet with they gain new insights in to their work. They add an amazing depth to their experience that strengthens the work that they do. HealthCa.mp is where you join an Away Team and participate in new shared discoveries. So come to HealthCa.mp - just don't wear a red shirt!

4. Play Poker, Not Chess: We live and work in a world where despite our desire to create predictable rules we find that life happens. HealthCa.mp is an organic experience where the participants define the agenda for the day. The experience is a product of their interactions. As such there are no rigidly defined rules. There may be some structure to the day but the participants drive the outcomes. Experiencing HealthCa.mp reminds us of the need to be adaptable and embrace the unpredictable nature of the world we live and work in. 

5. Blow Up The Enterprise: HealthCa.mp is an opportunity to validate your passion. To gain new perspectives and determine the relevancy of what you are doing. Participation in HealthCa.mp is like participating in an instant focus group. It is a sanity check - some might say an "insanity check" - It can help you validate a product or service idea. It can also help you understand emerging trends and help you asses the risks to your business or product line. You can argue that Apple is winning the future by creating the Post-PC market which they dominate with the iPad. This new market is caniballizing the PC market place and even eating in to their traditional computer sales   but by by "blowing up their Enterprise" they are emerging victorious in a Post-PC world. 

There are a number of HealthCamps coming up in 2012. Check out the latest list at http://HealthCa.mp/calendar. Currently scheduled events include:

• HealthCa.mp/rdu, Raleigh, NC on Friday April 13, 2012
• HealthCa.mp/dc, Washington, DC on Monday June 4, 2012
• HealthCa.mp/sfbay, San Leandro, CA on Friday October 5, 2012

Embrace the James T. Kirk rules of great leadership - sign up for a HealthCamp today!

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