“I will not stop until we have the right to see our own information” – Part 2

The post below original ran May 21 on Ted Eytan’s blog.Ted was one of our very first Men of the Month. See his March 2009 Man of the Month post here.

This is the scene in which I encountered @ReginaHolliday yesterday

That’s her with others, in front of the imposing low-rise brutalistic structure of the Hubert H Humphrey Building which is the headquarters of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (@HHSgov).
This is the scene in which I encountered Regina on July 13, 2010, the day Meaningful Use regulations were announced (from this blog post: “I will not stop until we have the right to see our own information” | Ted Eytan, MD).
Then, Regina stood next to Kathleen Sebelius as she unveiled Meaningful Use to the world.
The difference in images is striking – from filling the scene to being just a small part of it.
Brutalist architecture is so fascinating to me. It was considered beautiful for its time (see: Continuing my Sustainability Tour: Royal College of Physicians, London – A Brutalist Modern Masterpiece | Ted Eytan, MD), and yet … it feels like something is missing.
I looked up the history of the Humphrey building, and I found that it was the second government building commissioned during President Kennedy’s call for “the finest contemporary American thought.” Indeed, from the 1962 Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture:
The policy shall be to provide requisite and adequate facilities in an architectural style and form which ...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Champions Innovation Source Type: blogs