Presentation given to Westminster Health Forum; a somewhat contrarian view on 'innovation' with a few ideas on escaping the Giant Hairball.

1. Hello HANDI
Apps to support health and care - Supporting the App paradigm -That's HANDI
www.handihealth.org
Westminster Health Forum 2012
Rob Dyke – Director
HANDIHealth Community Interest Company

2. HANDI Health CIC
• A new not-for-profit Community Enterprise
Company
• There to support:
– Developers
– Health and care professionals
– Patients, service users and carers

3. Why HANDI?
• Because we believe Apps and the App
paradigm can transform health and care

4. Innovation?
Innovation works like a teenagers party. You
set boundaries, general direction stand back
and let it happen, intervening only if it goes
badly wrong – Government creating innovation
is a bit like me dressing as Master of
Ceremonies at a teenage party.
Ewan Davis, Co-Founder HANDI – nhshackday
mailing list

5. Innovation?
The NHS clutches to 'innovation' like a
drowning man grabs at passing flotsam. There
is even the ultimate management oxymoron;
The NHS 'Institute of Innovation'. You cannot
institutionalise innovation. Words like 'a
package of tried and tested products, learning
and support' are not in the lexicon of the
innovator but they are on the NHSII's website.
Roy Lilley – nhsmanagers.net

6. Innovation?
I have not been able to find any regular
correlation between well adopted innovation
processes and actual innovation outcomes, and
I’ve been looking pretty hard. And here at
Spigit, we’ve got hundreds of data sets to look
through.
James Gardner - innovatorinside.com

7. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
What is the biggest obstacle to creativity?
Attachment to outcome. As soon as you
become attached to a specific outcome, you
feel compelled to control and manipulate what
you're doing. And in the process you shut
yourself off to other possibilities.
Gordon MacKenzie – FastCompany.com

8. Escape velocity!
Let Go!
Be Agile, Hack things together,
Funnel ideas, Forge solutions,
Tweet about them, Blog about them;
Fail lots, Win some.

9. www.handihealth.org
info@handihealth.org
@handihealth
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