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Top 50 Blogs to Help You Further Your Healthcare Career

With all the attention being paid to healthcare these days (given the Stimulus bill and HITECH Act provisions) and with the assumption that a ton of money will be poured into the healthcare sector at any time there are lots of folks wondering how to get into the health tech field. I found this posting on Top 50 Blogs to Help You Further Your Healthcare Career on the e-Health News Blog has many of the same blogs and sites that I recommend to my readers.

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Join me and others from CDC, FDA, HHS, & NIH to discuss HealthIT Adoption via Social Media

I’ve been invited to moderate a panel at next week’s Driving the Adoption of Health IT Through Innovations in Social Media conference in DC. It will be held on July 16 from 8a until about noon at the Amplify Public Affairs office at 919 18th Street, NW, DC. If you’ll be in the DC area, please join us. My panel is called “How Social Media Improves Communication & Collaboration For Public Health” and extends on some of the topics I presented in last month’s keynote at the Healthcare New Media Marketing conference in Phoenix.

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A Tour of the Healthcare New Media Marketing Landscape

Last week I had the privilege of chairing and keynoting the Healthcare New Media Marketing Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. I really liked the event because the attendees were actual practitioners from the provider space (many hospitals, health systems, etc). It was great talking to people who were actually producing the content — web directors, PR heads, and other marketing leaders from Cleveland Clinic, Duke University Health System, Henry Ford Health System, Mayo Clinic, Emory Healthcare, and many other prestigious healthcare providers.

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Guest Article: Why Games Matter in Healthcare

The Fifth Annual Games for Health Conference will be held June 11–12 in Boston, MA. The conference will focus on the many intersections between videogames, health and healthcare. I’ve written quite a few times recently about games in healthcare and how the IT around games in health is important to us. The conference is very affordable and there’s a 15% discount by entering bos09 during registration but the early bird pricing expires today.

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Guest Article: How medical students can get into Health IT

Many med students often write to me asking about how they might get into the healthcare IT space while continuing their studies or after they graduate. Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of online phlebotomy classes at her blog Health Zone Blog speaks routinely to med students so I asked here to share her thoughts. She’s got some great ideas for students and is willing to take more questions via e-mail or comments in this posting.

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Amazon offers free cloud computing services to educators and students

I don’t usually write out product announcements but this one really caught my eye: Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education. Here’s what they have (direct from their website): AWS in Education provides a set of programs that enable the worldwide academic community to easily leverage the benefits of Amazon Web Services for teaching and research. With AWS in Education, educators, academic researchers, and students can apply to obtain free usage credits to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors and explore new projects – tasks that previously would have required expensive up-front and ongoing investments in infrastructure.

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SOA in Healthcare Conference June 2-4 in Chicago

The general hype of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) has calmed down quite a bit which means that practicality and reality is settling in for the design pattern. With concepts like Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) getting more attention these days and the “Death of SOA” being pronounced by the likes of Burton Group, it’s clear that the pundits need something new to talk about. My feeling is that SOA as a way of defining reusable and portable services for creating composite application as opposed to siloed code components and applications acting independently is still very meaningful and applicable.

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Moving to two-factor authentication in healthcare apps

Most of us who work in the technology field know that single-factor authentication (using just a username and password combination) is not as secure as two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication. The Federal Government and large businesses alike either require multi-factor authentication or at least support it through the use of a physical access card or something similar. Until recently, it’s been difficult to get multi-factor security working in modern apps because they’ve either been expensive or difficult to implement.

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