During the first 10 days of July, the tweet streams I use for monitoring the #healthit and #HITsm hashtags on Twitter were flooded with a lot of tweets related to the 2014 #HIT100 event.
At times, the nominations for people I already knew about (and all the spam that seems to accompany events like the #HIT100) were a bit too much to sift through. But as is the case when panning for gold, I had to be willing to sift through LOTS of soil to find a few precious flakes.
Here are some of the “precious flakes” I believe will provide value to those interested in healthcare information technology and social media. Note: You can follow all of these folks using this HIT100 Twitter list I created or pick and choose those that may interest you. Or skip all of them.
David E. Albert, MD @DrDave01
– Physician, Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur
Howard Brooks @HowardbrooksEY
– Americas Life Sciences Leader @ EY; @JDRF advocate
Austin Chiang MD @AustinChiangMD
– Youngish doctor with many aspirations.
Naomi Fried @NaomiFried
– Chief Innovation Officer @Boston Children’s. #Telehealth and #HIT Evangelist
Craig Fukushima @ctffox
– Health care Consultant with over 30 years of operational experience.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
R. Grossmann, MD @ZGJR
– TEDx Futurist / Surgeon
Bill Hersh @williamhersh
– Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU
Martin Kelly @martykelly
– Founder @health_XL previously Partner IBM Venture Capital
Paul Lane @PBLsciupdate
– Medical Publications Professional
Michael Martineau @eHealthMusings
– eHealth consultant and commentator
Greg Matthews @chimoose
– Healthcare. Social media. Enterprise change management.
Sally McGee Barlow @lonestarsally
– RN, Associate Director Business Analytics
Sean McGuire @SeanNMcGuire
– Health Policy Wonk. America’s Healthcare Challenge Host.
Jan Oldenburg @janoldenburg
– Chief editor of Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement.
Ruby Raley @ruby_raley
– Itinerant Technologist focused on Health Care and Supply Chain
Keith Salzman @klsalzman
– CMIO at IBM
Dale Sanders @drsanders
– Healthcare #DataWarehousing & #analytics guy.
Mark Underwood @knowlengr
– Big Data, Cyber security, informaticist
Alice Westerfield @AGWesterfield
– Data Integration and Data Management
Mary Pat Whaley @Mary_Pat_Whaley
– Physician Advocate. Resources for Physicians & Managers at Manage My Practice
