What ’ s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/5 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).  This week’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen (@thegr8chalupa) on the topic “What’s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media.” Friends, we have so much to talk about! The last twelve years have been some of the most formative and important of our careers – and in some cases, our lives.  Looking back to 2010, the health IT initiatives of that time consisted of getting up-to-speed as quickly as possible about Meaningful Use and helping to move health systems and clinical practices away from paper and analog processes to electronic and Internet-enabled technologies. In that year – and the few around it – we experienced a real and almost literal digital transformation of the healthcare industry. The early healthcare communities on Twitter – such as #hcsm – responded to this. They were drawing voices across clinical disciplines, dynamic conversations were unfolding, and collaborations were being discovered that were proving to have a lasting impact on the business of healthcare. However, in the transformation the industry was experiencing, a critical voice was missing from those conversations – the voice of the stakeholder group responsible for making that digital transformation possible: the IT professionals.  #HITsm was born to make space for a larger crowd, inclusive of the clinical voices making wave...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: #HITsm Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Erica Olenski Johansen Health IT Social Media Source Type: blogs