My Life and Work in Pictures

March 2010

2010-08-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

ONC HIT Policy Committee Implementation Workgroup Meeting, March 8, 2010

Sherry Reynolds testifies
Throopcat reading Sherry's written testimony

Health Care Rally, Washington, DC, March 9, 2010

"We Are All Patients In The End"

Leslie Boyd, lifeomike.org
Mike's story: lifeomike.org/about-mike/mikes-obituary/

February 2010

2010-06-01T20:08:00.000-07:00

ONC HIT Policy Committee Adoption/Certification Workgroup Meeting, February 25, 2010

January 2010

2010-06-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

73 Cents Checkup, January 28

"Rowdy Patients" Tweetup, January 28

December 2009

2010-02-11T03:33:00.000-08:00

The following pictures are from SecretDCHealthCamp on December 1 in Washington, DC.

November 2009

2010-02-11T03:08:00.000-08:00

HealthCampNYC, November 7

Health 2.0 Stat (Washington, DC chapter of Health 2.0), November 10

Health Tweetup/Cupcake Crawl/Nighttime Monument Walk, November 21

October 2009

2010-02-11T02:42:00.000-08:00

In addition to attending Health 2.0 San Francisco, I attended HealthCampSFBay.

HealthCampSFBay

Health 2.0

September 2009

2010-02-11T02:14:00.000-08:00

I invested $30 in a digital pedometer and started experimenting with HealthVault. I started documenting my own health information because:

a) I am a nerd
b) I wanted to help people understand what their health data looks like
c) I wanted to help people understand what they can do with their health data

Cindy’s Health Journey

View more presentations from CindyThroop.

August 2009

2010-02-10T21:07:00.001-08:00

Regina happened to be out of town when Howard Dean was at Politics and Prose doing a book signing on the same block as her 73 Cents mural in August. My mission was to make sure Howard Dean saw the mural. Mission accomplished!

July 2009

2010-02-10T20:51:00.000-08:00

I met Regina Holliday at the end of May. A few weeks later, in June, her husband passed away from advanced kidney cancer. By July, her second medical advocacy mural was was well underway.

After pizza at Comet Ping Pong, Regina showed new friends the partially finished mural at 5001 Connecticut Avenue, NW in Washington, DC.

June 2009

2010-02-10T20:29:00.000-08:00

I had been too busy to attend HealthCamp when I was in Boston in April, so I jumped at the chance to attend my first HealthCamp, just outside of Baltimore, Maryland. By this time, Claudio Luis Vera and I had launched the Open Health Project web site, so Claudio gave a talk on Open Source.

The slideshow he presented is available here.

May 2009

2010-02-10T20:09:00.000-08:00

I spent the first weeks of May recuperating from the April Health 2.0 Meets Ix conference. Things kicked back into gear towards the end of May.

An unstructured meeting on May 27 changed things up a bit.

Coffee Break

Happy Hour (known as a Tweetup in these parts)

April 2009

2010-02-09T17:18:00.000-08:00

Healthcare Message to the Administration (I'm in there at 1:38)

Months of work went into preparing for the Ix Meets Health 2.0 conference on April 22 and 23 in Boston.

Throughout the conference planning process, I got to know Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt (I already knew Josh Seidman; he was my boss!).

Emily Jacobs did an amazing job as the Event Manager for the conference. She defined grace under pressure.

Behind the Scenes

Emily Jacobs and ThroopCat waiting for the flight from DC to Boston.

In addition to being the Research Manager at the Center for Information Therapy, I was the Exhibit Manager for the conference...I somehow ended up being the Volunteer Manager, too!

This wouldn't have been possible without the extra help I received from ThroopCat and Volunteer Extraordinaire, Don Matchinski!

March 2009

2010-02-07T20:36:00.000-08:00

I created this video in preparation for a webinar,and also to encourage people to participate in a newly-created social network.

Here are a couple of slides from the webinar.

Oh yeah, by the way, my son joined in the 2.0 festivities and generated his own content, which has since become pretty popular among my friends:

Other than that, it was a crazy busy month leading up to the April Health 2.0 Meets Ix Conference!

February 2009

2010-02-07T19:00:00.000-08:00

In an effort to bring the work of the IxCenter into the, uh, modern era, I created a social network for the membership program. As a way of introducing the network and encouraging people to submit video messages for a Health 2.0 project, I created and shared my first video...

I don't exactly love being the center of attention (and I detest watching myself on video), but I figured if my video was pretty bad, it might inspire a level of confidence in other people who are otherwise shy.

I also recorded a video with my "health care message to the new administration." By this point, I had gotten over the sheer terror of being on video and loosened up a bit. This is the UNCUT version.

The edited version is on Health 2.0 TV...

Cindy Throop - IxCenter from Health 2.0 on Vimeo.

Well, by my third or so video, it turns out I am a bit of a ham...

January 2009

2010-02-06T19:52:00.000-08:00

At the beginning of January 2009, I was working in Bethesda at a little non-profit called the Center for Information Therapy.

This was the view from my office window on a day in late January.

That tiny amount of snow must have closed the schools down; my son was at work with me that day.