Book & Panel Discussion with Author & Internet Pioneer John Patrick at Danbury Hosptial on May 5

Next up on John Patrick's book tour: Danbury Hospital 

Health Attitude: How the Internet, Mobile, and the Cloud will Change the Future of Healthcare

Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) is honored to again present John Patrick, in his 23rd annual appearance at the DACS podium.

Since last year’s presentation, John has earned a Doctor of Health Administration degree and written a new book. Our meeting this year will be part of John’s book tour. His comments will be followed by a moderated panel of healthcare experts.

The title of his new book, “Health Attitude: Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare”, may not include any words that seem directly relevant to our “computer” society … but his message includes a lot about computers, the web, and how these and other technological advances will lead to improvements in health care in coming years.

“It’s not disease, dollars, or doctors standing in the way of safe and affordable healthcare. The solution includes a new health attitude of patients, providers and payers …”, as John writes on his website. Read more about his book at http://healthattitude.org/ or visit his blog at http://attitudellc.org/.

The personal healthcare revolution is just beginning, according to John, and massive changes are coming to healthcare. The changes will of course include new medical devices and medical records in the cloud, but also a great change in “attitude”. The new attitude will include what John calls “patient-centered medicine”, home health monitoring via smart phones, more accountability in healthcare organizations, and greater collaboration for more effective healthcare. John’s book is both a revealing look at the current barriers that block the United States from achieving an effective healthcare system … and an optimistic view of the coming attitudinal reforms that will soon overwhelm these barriers.

John Patrick says these coming “attitudinal reforms” will be hastened by the technology of computers, smart phones, and the web. This is where the computer world will meet the health care world, and this is why our DACS organization is sponsoring a health care talk.

We will begin the evening with a short talk by John about his book, and then we will have a panel discussion including several notable panelists:

  • Cary Passik, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Praxair Regional Heart and Vascular Center at Danbury Hospital
  • Aparna Oltikar, MD, Chairman of the Department of Medicine for Danbury and New Milford Hospitals
  • Dawn Myles, APRN, Vice President , Quality and Patient Safety at Western Connecticut Health Network
  • John Patrick, DHA, President, Attitude LLC

The panel discussion will be moderated by Tom Zarecki, who is a DACS member and a professor in the Communication and Media Arts Department at Western Connecticut State University.

Following the panel discussion, there will be a book signing opportunity. John has graciously donated 25 copies of his book, and we will give these copies to the first 25 DACS members who arrive. Additional copies will be for sale, and John will be available after the meeting to autograph books.

Dr. John R. Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former VP of Internet Technology at IBM. Patrick was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, and a member of the Internet Society and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Patrick has served on a number of boards, including Danbury Hospital from 2003 to 2013. He is currently a board member at OCLC and a member of Western Connecticut Health Network’s Biomedical Research Institute Advisory Council.

This year we are making a special effort to invite physicians and other hospital personnel. The early start time is intended to make our event attractive to those who will remain at the hospital at the end of their workday.

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