With hashtags like #healthIT, #HITsm, #HIMSS, #EMR and #EHR, the health technology community is very much alive and well on Twitter.
In fact, the health IT community already has its own list of its top 100 Twitter users. But if your Twitter feed is already hard to keep up with, here are 10 users that we find particularly worthy of a follow. These tweeters are using social media effectively to share health IT news and resources, offer their opinions and engage in conversations with others.
Nate Osit (@NateOsit) — implementation specialist and self-declared health IT geek
Ken Congdon (@KenOnHIT) — editor in chief of Healthcare Technology Online
Michael Spitz (@SpitzStrategy) — managing director of healthcare at Zemoga
Elin Silveous (@ElinSilveous) — entrepreneur and health writer
Gregg Masters (@2healthguru) — co-founder and partner at XanateMedia.
Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_ONC) — national coordinator for health IT
Steve Sisko (@ShimCode) — consultant and blogger
Michael Planchart (@theEHRGuy) — healthcare interoperability consultant
Brian Ahier (@ahier) — health IT/information systems at Mid-Columbia Medical Center
John Lynn (@techguy) — blogger
(Also, see our picks for the top personalized medicine, big data and cardiology Twitter users.)
By Deanna Pogorelc MedCity News
Deanna Pogorelc is a Cleveland-based reporter who writes obsessively about life science startups across the country, looking to technology transfer offices, startup incubators and investment funds to see what’s next in healthcare. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University and previously covered business and education for a northeast Indiana newspaper.More posts by Author
Thanks for the comment, Texas Doc. I am not entirely unbiased here, but blogging can be reporting, depending on who is doing it. SCOTUS blog was the place to be last Thursday. I agree that the best source for HIT info is CIOs, but not many of them have Twitter built into their day as bloggers do. We are always glad to take recommendations, if you find a CIO who takes time for tweets.
Except for Farzad it looks like you just picked out a bunch of bloggers? They might tweet often but they are hardly thought leaders. Are any of them heading up health care systems? The CIO of a major hospital system? Blogging is neither reporting nor leadership. Where do they even work?
Here's another relevant list http://nuancehealthcareblog.com/2012/06/13/in-celebration-of-social-media-day-top-7-hcsm-influencers-to-follow-on-twitter/