Social media tends to make its
way into my workday as a nudge from those I connect with: a haphazard question, comment or as new
publications surface. This most often
happens on Twitter, when someone loads up @lindseybh
into a tweet, after which it lands in my e-mail. Even though I often use those that I follow
on Twitter as the best daily newscast on health and health IT, I recently just
skip over it and jump right into my daily tasks. This week, I received an interesting tweet
from @XeroxHealthcare:
“How do you, @lindseybh think innovations in
health technology may improve care for patients? http://bit.ly/ITmsjZ#WorldHealthCareCongress”
My first thought was—“I have too
much to do to respond. “ I then spent
major portions of the next day trying to navigate health care for a family
member. To understand my story—see Regina Holliday’s blog
from last year. At the same time I
reflected on the many times I agreed to have lunch (or breakfast, dinner,
drinks, etc) with someone in health IT who wanted to “pick my brain.” (Health IT/IS Consulting was my role prior to
joining as Academy Staff.) After multiple invites from LinkedIn “acquaintances”,
I began to feel that it (having my “brain picked”) was a waste of my time –and a
free gift to those who want to jump into health care innovation. Then I realized that what happened each time someone
else “picked my brain”—was that I thought of a new idea or innovative product
or “gap” need in health care that doesn’t yet exist—or better yet—a renewed commitment
to embark on a project that might make a bit of a difference to a few. That ole adage of “picking your brain” had
evolved into “piquing my brain.”
So in the spirit of continued
conversation (and picking/piquing) here is my answer to the above tweet question: Include nutrition concepts, terms and data
in structured format so that providers, patients, researchers and the public in
general can begin to realize outcomes based upon nutritional interventions!
As most of you may know, many talented colleagues have been
working on this for a long time. There
are many to give attribution to when this happens. As for me, my Twitter goal is pretty simple: I am…“Determined
to leave my children more than the fine china—improved health care.”