A little this and that

With the holidays and all, I’m too distracted to have many original thoughts.  Here’s a mish mash of things to ponder.

Human Googles (aka hoogles)

I am constantly getting messages from LinkedIn contacts which are not original content, but instead links to other blogs or ads masquerading as whitepapers.  I have started referring to these people as human googles.  We can call them "hoogles" for short I suppose.  It’s easy to be a hoogle.  Just troll the Internet, find a blog you think might vaguely interest a segment of your LinkedIn contact list, and send them a link which they will never use under the guise that it is useful and informative information.  

Instead of impersonating an Internet spider and filling my inbox with hooglegrams, why not mix it up and surprise me with an original thought, opinion, or viewpoint.  It’s not easy to think of something original, and sometimes it turns out badly.  But when it works, the gift is appreciated.  And you’ll find the process of working through an original blog post is very stimulating and can help you work through issues you’re having at work. 

Most of my blog posts are of original content, not because I think I’m smarter than anyone else, but because I have a question or issue I’m interested in and which I think medical practices might be interested in as well. 

1%

When I see 1%, I now think of the Wall Street protesters.  Wow, the power of marketing.  My personal 1% isn’t so good.  I was 1% short of passing my AAPC CPC exam.  Arrgghh.  After working through my “what if” period, I scheduled to retake it in late January.  I can’t really think of any profound life lesson to blog about, but instead I’m just happy to be so close to passing, and mad at myself not studying harder. 

Hoolgegram Alert

Warning:  I’m going to refer you to a couple awesome blog posts from this past week.  You’re forewarned.

I found a couple very interesting blog posts this week on HISTalk.com.   The first one is  here: John Gomez.    John Gomez, formerly of Allscripts and Eclipsys writes an interesting piece on the health of the EMR sector.  Though I didn’t’ work with him, my time at Eclipsys overlapped with John’s, and he had loads of respect within the company, so I think what he says in this post is most interesting.

The second post may be found here: Bobbie Byrne  Bobbie Byrne,VP/CIO at Edward Hospital, Naperville, Illinois, writes about her hospital’s selection of Epic for acute and ambulatory settings..   She is also a former Eclipsys employee.

Straight ahead, 

Bob