Mayo Clinic Social Media Residency, EMR Selection, & EMR License Transfers

While the Twittersphere is flooded with tweets about the #HIT100, I still was able to take a look through all the volume of tweets and find a few good topics that are well worth discussing on this site.

There are some real doozies in this EMR and Health IT Twitter round up. I’d love to hear your thoughts on each of the topics.

Let’s start with this announcement from the Mayo Clinic:

That’s pretty amazing news to consider. I imagine that most doctors won’t like the use of the name “residency” when it comes to this program. It kind of diminishes how much work, effort and learning happens in their residency. In this case I have to agree with those doctors. Use of the word residency for this short “social media residency” is in poor taste. Although, I do like that the Mayo Clinic is placing such value on the use of social media in healthcare.


Amazing counsel!! Read it again and post it on your wall if you’re going through an EHR selection. The other way to deal with this is to not buy until the requested features is implemented. Although, if you go that route, you might be sitting around forever since they may never implement your requested feature.


I’m glad to see Jim Tate tweeting again. I think he was on hiatus for a while. Or maybe I just hadn’t seen him for a while. In the above tweet he links to an article by William O’Toole that does a great job looking at the issues associated with EMR licenses. Well worth a read if you’re purchasing an EHR or if you plan to one day sell or transfer your practice to someone else.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

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