Stream: hacking-health
Topic: HL7 + Hacking Health
Guilherme Zwicker (Aug 15 2019 at 15:31):
I worked as a volunteer and head of a developing chapter in Brazil, and Hacking Health taught me a lot.
It's interesting to see how open innovation can speed things up, but my feeling is that it was a long time before ideas were converted into something material.
I don't know how the movement is today, apparently they are moving towards a better structuring. The HL7 + HH combination can be a phenomenal tool of change.
Grahame Grieve (Aug 15 2019 at 18:49):
The interest in HH in Australia was significantly eroded because there were great ideas, but almost all of them required real integration, and that wasn't possible in the HH framework
Rien Wertheim (Aug 16 2019 at 06:33):
I reached out the HH people in hte past to see if we can work together on DevDays, but they weren't very responsive.
Guilherme Zwicker (Aug 17 2019 at 18:05):
@Rien Wertheim and @Grahame Grieve, yes, all what you say is true.
I worked with the movement for about three years and I can say (from within) what moves them.
The movement is purposely disorganized because it assumes that people can benefit from it.
Even more boldly, I always wanted to understand why there were no pre-leveling activities or whatever, but then I noticed that the issue is in the absolute openness of the volunteer mind.
The consequences are as bizarre as possible. Illegal or unethical solutions between.
Only it changes people, and I saw the modifying power that movement leaves behind.
Grahame Grieve (Aug 17 2019 at 20:48):
right. you've captured both the strength and the weakness
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