This week, we have a large team of Perficient consultants and experts attending the HIMSS conference in Atlanta. As an IT consulting services provider, we partner closely with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others who are extremely active in IT solutions for the healthcare industry.
In honor of the social media focus the conference has had, we’re providing for you a list of very active and influential Twitter folks who tweet about Healthcare IT. These are people we follow on Twitter and people we admire and respect for the value they contribute to the industry. We tweet at @Perficient_HC pretty much every day. Whether you are a healthcare IT professional who is just getting started on Twitter or you’ve been active for a while but you’re looking to break into the most active communities in the space, this list should be a great kick-start for you:
- Name Brian Ahier
- Location The Dalles, Orego
- Web http://ahier.blogspot.com/
- Bio Passionate about Health IT, Healthcare Reform and Gov 2.0; City Councilor, Presbyterian Elder
- Name Ed Bennett
- Location Ellicott City, Maryland
- Web http://ebennett.org/
- Bio I manage web sites for a large academic medical center. Opinions are my own, not those of my employer. email: ed@ebennett.org
- Ed also curates a list of all hospitals involved in social media, updates from over 300 U.S. hospitals regularly updating on Twitter: http://twitter.com/EdBennett/us-hospitals
- Name John Moore
- Location Cambridge MA
- Web http://www.chilmarkresearch.com/
- Bio IT analyst focusing on consumer-facing HIT. Fanatic cyclist, skier, happiest outdoors
- Name Phil Baumann
- Location Philadelphia
- Web http://philbaumann.com/twitter-landing/
- Bio View the link above for a video of how I use Twitter. I’m founder of #RNchat & blog at PhilBaumann.com. Tags: Healthcare | Pharma | Technology | Hilarity
- Name Anthony Guerra
- Location New York
- Web http://www.healthsystemcio.com/
- Bio healthsystemcio.com is the only online-exclusive publication dedicated to serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.
- Name Nick Dawson
- Location Richmond, VA
- Web http://www.nickdawson.net/
- Bio From VA and many fine airports. Hospital administration, foodie, music buff and fan of all things porcine, skis backwards. Warning – high volume twitterer
- Name Lee Aase
- Location Austin, MN USA
- Web http://social-media-university-global.org/
- Bio Chancellor, SMUG. Day job: Mayo Clinic social media manager. Opinions tweeted are solely my own, not my employer’s. Tweet @leeaase if you want me to follow you.
- Name Shawn HealthIT Riley
- Location Austin, MN, USA
- Web http://www.healthtechnica.com/
- Bio HIT Blog http://www.healthtechnica.com Director of Information Tech over hospital and clinics. Dedicated to Health Technologies advancements
We also follow a variety of hashtags. What’s a hashtag? A hash tag is an acronym or abbreviation you include in any tweet in order to code that tweet to a specific conference or subject. Try browsing these hash tags to see what we mean:
- #hcsm – Healthcare Social Media
- #hcit – Healthcare IT
- #hchit – Healthcare Health IT
- #hcmktg – Healthcare Marketing
- #HealthIT – Health IT
We hope this list helps you get a head start on Twitter. Twitter, for us, is a tool that enables an online community of professionals and thought leaders to exchange ideas. Particularly in this industry, the networking and education this online community fosters is helping to advance technology and improvements in healthcare. We hope you’ll follow us at @Perficient_HC and join the conversation!
You can also follow me personally on Twitter at @LizaSisler where I also tweet about Healthcare and IT.
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