We are pleased to release the conference brochure for the 14th Annual Healthcare Internet Conference, which will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas beginning November 15-17, 2010. It took a ton of work to get the program in place, but it was also a lot of fun. Download a copy of it from our Web site. We think it is offers a wide and strong variety of educational and network opportunities.
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I do, and so do 63.2 million others.
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One of the things that we have blogged about consistently on this site is the need to set up a version of your Web site for visitors using mobile devices. Since this is such a hot topic in the industry right now, we decided to do a little research. Ultimately, we found that only 1 in 5 hospital / health system Web sites currently have a mobile-friendly version of their Web site. The most popular reasons cited for not creating such a site are “not enough of a priority” (55%) and “shortage of time and/or FTEs” (45%).
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Basketball fans know Charlie Villanueva, a Milwaukee Bucks forward, as a solid but not spectacular NBA player who helped UConn win the 2004 NCAA National Championship. He is also known by some for his work as a spokesman for the NAAF (National Alopecia Areata Foundation), which supports research into the autoimmune skin disease from which he suffers.
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Let’s end the suspense right now: I’ve been married to Julie for more than 31 years, and would never choose my phone over her. Most days, at least.
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A friend of mine could not get rid of a cold he has had for a couple weeks and decided to stop in a walk-in-clinic on the way home from work. He arrived at the office to find a 6 hour wait ahead of him for the evening. I started wondering how he could have avoided a long fix to the common cold (besides going to the doctor earlier before it became an extreme case). It would have been nice for him to be able to pull his phone out and look up the office number to call ahead, get directions or even see the “real time” wait. However, this organization did not have a site accessible for hand held devices. A mobile Internet site not only could have been another avenue for him to locate the organization, but also another way to provide easy customer service. Many of the organizations we work with have not created an external Internet site dedicated to hand held devices, such as mobile phones. My friend’s situation once again leaves me wondering why not?
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When one person asked if they should really worry about a strategy for cell phones, I wondered. When a second said they didn’t think their patients used cell phones that much, I worried. Now a third has suggested that a strategy for cell phones should be a phase two or three priority, and I’m shocked.
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