I no longer need my toes to count the days until the 13th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference. It’s a different experience for me now, but even before I joined Greystsone.Net, I looked forward to it every year.
I’ve often touted Paul Levy’s “Running a Hospital” blog as the best in the business, and last week he cemented that position IMHO with his post on blocking social media. We’ve written about that before, but Levy offers the highly credible point of view of a hospital CEO.
With all due apologies to McGeorge Bundy, considered by many to be one of the architects of the Vietnam War, I’m struck by the fourth of his lessons learned from the book “Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam”: Read more…
I heard a comment the other day that if your site is well organized and nicely designed that the internal search function doesn’t matter. Really? As you can tell, I’m skeptical.
Many of us would cringe at the notion of anybody being able to publicly comment on our work. Well, start cringing, because Google has made it possible.
Further proof that I’m a geek: I just love Web analytics. They used to call me the Stats Hound at my last place of employment. All of which causes great amusement for my wife who knows that the last math class I took was as a junior in high school when I barely passed geometry.
When I was trying to convince doctors at my last place of employment that allowing secure messaging from existing patients was a good idea, I heard more than once that it would be the “end of modern medicine as we know it.” One of our physician champions found a reference that I’ve never been able to relocate that quoted doctors saying the same thing about another technological advancement: The telephone.
Those of us who obsess over search engine traffic (and that should be just about everybody, right?) are having a hard time keeping up these days. First, there’s the new Bing, which we talked about a while ago. Then the combination of Yahoo! and Bing, followed by an announcement by Yahoo! that they are still working on their own search.
You know the old saying, “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it”? Social media is not like that. Yes, everybody is talking about it, or so it seems. But many are actually doing something about it.
It’s barbeque season, and there are few things I like better than a good barbeque. But what happens if you are at a neighborhood barbeque and you realize a group of neighbors is talking about your hospital or health system. What do you do?