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“In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first.” –Frederick Winslow Taylor “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.” There was a time when engagement was the one-on-one relationship between a patient and physician and you could call your doctor on the phone. Do you remember that time? [...]

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I’ll be chatting live with #HITsm friend Gregg Masters at the following link about HIMSS13 and the Live #HITsm chat.

What are you most looking forward to at HIMSS13. Why?

Last week when I saw the @HIMSS13 Twitter account appear in the #HITsm stream I was amused and also a little confused, so I decided to ping the owner and see if I could figure out what was going on. Following is a Q&A we had this week via the discussion tool Branch. HIMSS13 (HIMSS13) [...]

Of all the social media options out there Pinterest is by far my favorite. I’ve been using Facebook since 2007, long before it became a mainstream thing. At that time, I used it to talk (OK, make sarcastic jokes back and forth) with the four other friends who used it. Now that it has evolved, [...]

Have you heard this before? “We have to start a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest account!”? I have. All the social media venues weren’t crammed into one sentence, but I’ve had the “We have to start” conversation more than once (last week it was Vimeo). My standard response is, “Why?” The standard response to my standard [...]

In my last blog post I mentioned that my previous beliefs about healthcare contradicted my Generation Y traits, and I didn’t even realize it. I also wondered whether other Millennials were in the same boat of interrupting their lives by being unengaged patients. In my opinion, Generation Yers are concerned with being healthy. The “life [...]

Where to begin. I could probably write a book about everything I’ve learned during my internship in health IT, if I could effectively put it all into words that is. I’ve been exposed to HITECH, ACOs, Meaningful Use, patient engagement, health IT tools, and so much more in a way that I never have before. I think [...]

Every major purchase I have made the past five years has been aided by Amazon reviews for validation or advice on a better brand or product to buy. This is part of my purchasing behavior and I can honestly say it has been 100% successful in giving me confidence in my decision, which is only [...]