Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Healthcare IT, Social Media | View Comments
Whether you embrace it or not, leveraging social media in healthcare is here to stay. This article is not to debate the benefit of social media (website, blog, eNewsletter, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) in healthcare, but rather to discuss the import... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
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... texting, essentially, about getting up in the morning and what people ate for lunch… just a bunch of nonsense. When it came to Facebook, it seemed more geared to families and lonely people looking to rekindle old friendships. Few business (and virtually ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Posted in Health care, Social Media | View Comments
...disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes or disease outbreaks) and disseminated the information via its Public Health Matters blog, Facebook page and Twitter feed. Wacky, yes, but also extremely effective. In three days, the zombie preparedness warning had ov... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Posted in Health care, Meaningful Use, Social Media | View Comments
...can be found on the Medicine 2.0 website. The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #med2 and Medicine 2.0 can also be found on Facebook. Technology Acceptance Model Predicts Use of New Technologies Social media is also part of the agenda with a panel dis... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, HITECH, mHealth | View Comments
... a startup to a success are modest, at best. Lots of really big swings and misses from both innovators and investors. For every Facebook or Groupon there are probably 100 startups that either wash out completely or survive to liquidity (either positive or... Read entry ⇒
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Posted in Healthcare IT, Poll Results | View Comments
f any) do you use to keep updated on health IT subjects and news?” Both LinkedIn and Blogs received 31%, while RSS feeds, Facebook, Twitter and None all hovered close to only 10%. Does this fly in the face of the opinions on ways social media (Faceb... Read entry ⇒
Monday, October 17th, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
s strategy in health care. There’s no question about that. Your organization is probably somewhere along the spectrum of “doing Facebook” and starting your own patient-centered social networking platform. But no matter where you fall on this spectrum or h... Read entry ⇒
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Posted in Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Meaningful Use | View Comments
“ONC did an excellent job of creating pragmatic, achievable guidelines for physicians while still maintaining an ambitious vision for health IT… Now that EHR systems are affordable and Meaningful Use is within grasp – doctors have absol... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Posted in EHR, HITECH, Meaningful Use | View Comments
During an #HITsm tweet chat in February, I asked participants if they believed the momentum in EHR adoption by healthcare facilities initiated from HITECH and Meaningful Use would continue, if for whatever reason, funding for Meaningful Use was halted or... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Posted in Healthcare Standards, HL7 Messaging, HL7 Standards | View Comments
...culture and environment so different than my own has me deeply thinking about the international community of “real” users of HL7 for healthcare integration. I ran an informal survey to see if my thoughts about HL7′s use would be in line ... Read entry ⇒
