Last Tuesday saw our Digital Health Service launch event, which was a fun evening of drinks and debate with great insight from our speakers, controversial questions – and even a thrown blackberry (well a rubber one!). A huge thank you to the fabulous speakers, and to everyone who came along and got involved.
Demos very kindly hosted the evening, which started with Gavin introducing the ideas behind digital health itself and was followed by Andy Holt giving a fantastic rendition of his experience of taking part in one of the first workshops. Andy explained how at the Learning and Skills Council they found people fell into one of four tech attitudes: "Early adopters", "corporate yes", "change weary", "plain scared", but no matter which one they came under, everyone found they had digital health issues. In fact one outcome was the creation of a Blackberry support group!

The wonderful Joanne Jacobs talked about technology enveloping us and as if to prove a point live-streamed the event – which caused some controversy and an interesting debate around privacy and open sharing in the new digital age. Mark O'Neil got heated up over Blackberrys, talked about the new measurements of success, and opened up the discussion around what is needed going forward for digital health. Questions and conversation continued well into the night, and we even got some people to have a play on videoboo and leave us a little message.


A couple of posts and tweets from the night.
We'd love to continue what we started, so feel free to leave comments, contact us, and look out for news of our upcoming digital health drop-in clinic coming soon…