# Everything Digital Health - YouTube channel **Category:** [open forum](https://openhealthhub.org/c/open-forum/9) **Created:** 2025-10-28 12:33 UTC **Views:** 51 **Replies:** 3 **URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/everything-digital-health-youtube-channel/2883 --- ## Post #1 by @pacharanero Shameless plug here for the YouTube channel I've been working on for most of 2025, gradually recording more episodes covering areas of Digital Health that are not often spoken about in an open and honest way. Many of the existing Health Tech YT channels I'd noticed were run by relatively inexperienced doctors who were terribly excited about \ - so over the past years it's been Big Data, Blockchain, AI, Startups, mHealth, Wearables etc. But not much in the way of warts-and-all real tech discussion. https://www.youtube.com/@EverythingDigitalHealth I aim to be honest and straight-talking, and to be willing to enter the Zone of Uncomfortable Debate. If anyone from openhealthhub's community would like to come on the show to talk about a project, idea, campaign, or anything else, then please do PM me. We record episodes as remote video calls, they are edited and you have final veto before publication. --- ## Post #2 by @woolybear Don’t know why but recently had a flurry of emails from this forum after a long period of silence and, as ever, interesting stuff. @Marcus - Your comment below made me chuckle… maybe that was me once? Didn’t know about your channel - what I’ve watched so far… it’s good stuff. > On 28 Oct 2025, at 12:38, Marcus Baw via [openhealthhub.org](http://openhealthhub.org/) <[noreply@openhealthhub.org](mailto:noreply@openhealthhub.org)> wrote: > > Many of the existing Health Tech YT channels I’d noticed were run by relatively inexperienced doctors who were terribly excited about - so over the past years it’s been Big Data, Blockchain, AI, Startups, mHealth, Wearables etc. But not much in the way of warts-and-all real tech discussion. It’s a tricky balance isn't it. Like you, I’m a GP (now getting closer to retirement) and a passionate believer in the power of tech for good in health. I think appropriately so, I’m cautious about . Got a new partner for whom AI is the golden goose and all tech related challenges are “we just need to do X…” as if we haven’t walked this path before oh so many times. My tech lens dates back to something like the mid 80s and my health tech one… 1990? Just realised I speak more programming languages than human ones by quite a big margin. That’s a bit sad isn't it? Who needs Esperanto when there’s C from before C++ was even a thing… never mind Perl, Python and Go... The points you make about the silo mentality - so true… so how, for those who actually care about the fundamentals, do we fix it? How do we get from “AI will revolutionise everything in medicine” back to “you know when you change the medicines during an admission… be good to know that and not to have to retype everything”. That would make my day to day that little bit easier and improve care and allow me to focus a little more on direct patient care and educating the next generation and that, sort of important stuff, rather than “yeah, I can add that 2 week script you’re not setup to do yourself. Any other menial tasks I can do for you today and which waste the substantial public investment in me ?" :-) I know I’m preaching to the converted on this forum… but 35y or so I’ve been waiting for tech to deliver and be less palantir golden goose… what are we getting wrong? Why is getting / using basic obvious stuff a mystery worthy of the great Sherlock Holmes? When I think back to stuff I’ve tried to do… always seemed easier to stop kicking the dinosaur and hoping it would notice and just to hack round what I could control / get info about / infer and stack trace. Anything really worthwhile…. there’s an NDA before I can talk to the subcommittee of the subcommittee of the committee that…. sorry, fell asleep there, who might be able to tell me “No, you can’t”. After a while… that barcode scanner off Amazon plus some VBA in Excel…. yeah… it’s hacky as feck…. but it's actually making a difference that helps patient care whereas that really carefully written thing about event driven healthcare that I contributed into the EHR discussion in the Trust… oh look, tumbleweed. After a while, doing rage, rage against the dying of the light risks becoming “Yeah… tried that… yep… that too… yes…. that as well…I know...no, you’d think that wouldn’t you… but no”. For those of us getting longer of (health tech) tooth… are we those dinosaurs now? Are we the ones saying “Well, if you do that…. you’ve got to allow for <30 minutes of history based boredom later>”? How do we harness that Hugo Cornwall’esque passion to explore and help against the corporate healthcare wall of meh? How do I help my idealistic partner not become the (gently) cynical me in a couple of decades? Iain --- ## Post #3 by @pacharanero [quote="woolybear, post:2, topic:2883"] recently had a flurry of emails from this forum after a long period of silence [/quote] I looked into the default notification settings and they were basically all switched off, which meant nobody saw anything on here, and traffic was falling to zero. I made some conservative tweaks and this has massively improved things. If you find OHH helpful and interesting **please share it widely** - we really need a good, open, safe place to discuss health tech, without being reliant on the X, Facebook, LinkedIn type of sites, which will eventually [enshittify](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) and leave us high and dry. --- ## Post #4 by @pacharanero In terms of more substantive responses to your questions on how best to "Rage Against The Machine", below are some of my best tips. * Do not waste your time on hammering through a local IT change - it's going to exhaust you fighting with 'parish council'-level local IT dickheads and *even if you succeed* you've fixed the issue LOCALLY, when medicine is **global**. * So, think BIG and go global with ideas and projects. By publishing the code on something like GitHub you can get global reach, even though of course everything happens very slowly initially. * Do everything in open source and refuse to be part of a project that wants to hide its source code. This is partly for [ethical reasons](https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/open-source-is-the-only-way-for-medicine/80), and partly because it s a 'saved game' strategy - when your code for any project is open source then even if the org you work for disappears (eg NHSX, NHSE&I, NHSD, the FCI, soon the PRSB too) then you never lose access to that work. * Be outspoken (it works) https://bawmedical.co.uk/t/being-outspoken-works/1085 * I've had success with working with RCPCH and RCGP (to a lesser extent) so these can be ways to 'go around' the local IT blockers - I can tell you for sure that no NHS Trust or ICB would implement my dGC code if I was dealing with them directly. But they implement my code **via the RCPCH** because I'm hiding under that organisation's gravitas and reputation. This article I wrote about the RCPCH Incubator has just been published today (sadly they would only let me make it Open Access for the first month, but I have preprint PDF if anyone wants) http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/archdischild-2025-329017?ijkey=6KwuyucXMMMoosz&keytype=ref --- **Canonical:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/everything-digital-health-youtube-channel/2883 **Original content:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/everything-digital-health-youtube-channel/2883