Analyzing the TweetStream: Week of 7/29 to 8/2

Another Monday, another week of top news to bounce back your way. Here are the top five tweets that seemed to get our audience’s attention last week — all in one place.

#1

Doctors who skip social media risk alienating patients —> http://t.co/cZnLvrL8B6 #HealthIT #HITsm— HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) July 29, 2013

It’s obvious to us how ignoring social media is a missed opportunity to reach out to patients and create a positive virtual experience for them, but according to an article on amednews.com, showing a blind eye to online trends is also potentially damaging to a provider’s practice. Negative reviews and unanswered questions online can offset a physician’s otherwise positive reputation or make a bad reputation even worse. Docs needn’t be social media gurus, but ignoring the medium altogether is a bad idea.

#2

MT @athenahealth: Problems w/in-laws? Walked into lamppost? Check out list of zaniest #ICD10 codes: http://t.co/FokwW6ARYF #infographic— HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) July 30, 2013

I sincerely doubt that “injury by inflamed water skis” is a very common occurrence – nonetheless, there’s an ICD-10 code for that. However, as this article on govhealthit.com assures us, there’s no need to actually get up in arms over the absurdity of these particular codes – no one is required by the CMS to use them, they’re merely free to if they’d like. Still, the next time you or a friend walks into a lamppost, you’ll know how to code it (W22.02XD).

#3

5 ways #healthIT impacts consolidation —> http://t.co/UPjOXyPvPA via @HITNewsTweet #HITsm

— HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) July 29, 2013

Jeff Rowe, with healthcareitnews.com, tells us the top ways Health IT effects consolidation: Cost, Change Management, Diverse Systems, Privacy, and Tech Support. You can read on for further details on each.

#4

.@PartnersNews ‘connected health’ program uses patients’ gadgets to send health data to #EMR —> http://t.co/hR8qi8kKDg @medcitynews #HITsm — HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) July 31, 2013

This piece of news was particularly cool: A division of Boston’s Partners Healthcare is currently working on a method to cull the health data collected by the various remote, consumer health-monitoring devices on the market, and then integrate this information into the patient’s EMR.

#5

Some arent sure orgs “really truly grasp the magnitude of some of the changes” demanded by #MeaningfulUse Stage2 —> http://t.co/fZx5QsfpOy — HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) July 31, 2013

While some hospitals have recently shared Meaningful Use success stories, others are most likely going to struggle with improving their data exchange processes, security strength, imaging availability and patient engagement practices.