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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) [...]

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 [...]

For the past two years we have published the Top #HITsm Contributors list to recognize top social media voices in health IT. After much deliberation and debate, we recently decided that 2011 will be the last year the list is published. Erica Olenski and Jon Mertz created the #HITsm list in 2010 to help foster [...]

There is a contest, of sorts, underway. It is the #HIT100 list (Health IT top 100 people on Twitter). It is facilitated by @theEHRGuy, and his work and voice are very valuable in health IT circles. Just as @techguy points out in Health IT List Season – A List of Lists, building these lists takes [...]

Hopefully most of our readers took time last Friday to tune in to the #HITsm TweetChat, which featured topics centered around mobile health technology that were provided by our friends from HIMSS and mHIMSS. It was a fast-moving chat, with five topics of discussion rather than our standard four, which is reflective of the constantly [...]