In this episode, Teri welcomes Harry Pappas, the Founder and CEO of the Intelligent Health Association (IHA)

Welcome Harry Pappas!

Harry is a serial entrepreneur and has never worked for the corporate world. His core goal is to get the healthcare community to adopt new technology, software, apps, voice and other forms of technology that can have a dramatic impact on improving patient outcomes, patient care and patient safety while driving down the cost of Healthcare for all citizens.

The Intelligent Health Association (IHA)

• A healthcare incident concerning his mother made him realize how bad the healthcare system is the US and worldwide. He promised his mother that he would use all his talents, resources and connections all over the world to improve the delivery of healthcare by educating the healthcare community around the world to adopt new technologies and processes.
• He divested his companies and decided to do social good.
• He started out by forming the RFID in Healthcare Consortium which then led to the formation of the Intelligent Health Association because he realized that RFID and RTLS technologies were only tools that needed to be surrounded by other complementary technologies.
• They have an Alexa in Healthcare Consortium and other technology oriented alliances.
• IHA is focused on education. They are vendor neutral technology agnostic and the association is by invitation only.

Similarities of Voice to the Early Stages of the Dotcom Boom

• Voice is similar to the Dotcom enterprises, but Voice is more consumer oriented because an individual doesn’t need a laptop or any knowledge about how the web works.
• Voice is going to be the next WWW.

Getting involved with the Alexa Conference

• When he was approached by Bradley Metrock to contribute to the organization of the conference, he jumped on-board because his goal is always to help educate the community. They decided to create a track on healthcare and bring in real-world applications of voice.
• He will be doing a panel session where they will have both vendors and end-users talking about real-world application of voice.

List of resources mentioned in this episode:

• Harry on Linkedin
• Teri's Live Broadcast at the Alexa Conference
• Teri's Live Workshop at the Alexa Conference

Other Useful resources:

• Voice in Canada: The Flash Briefing
• Complete List of Alexa Commands
• Reviews of top Alexa Skills in Canada
• Alexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in Canada
• Teri Fisher on Twitter
• Alexa in Canada on Twitter
• Alexa in Canada Facebook Page
• Alexa in Canada Community Group on Facebook
• Alexa in Canada on Instagram
• Please leave a review on iTunes
• Shopping on Amazon.ca
• The Alexa Conference, presented by VoiceFirst.FM
• use promo code ALEXAINCANADA for 20% off

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