#WhatTheHealthcare – Brilliant, but Sad

If you’re on social media, you’ve probably seen the #WhatTheHealthcare hashtag that was started by HealthSparq. Along with the social media posts, they’ve also created a #WhatTheHealthcare! site that aggregates the frustrating healthcare stories that are out there.

Here’s a sample of the type of #WhatTheHealthcare stories they’re sharing:

As the title of this post says, it’s brilliant, but also very sad. There are so many #WhatTheHealthcare moments out there and we need to do better.

If you have a #WhatTheHealthcare moment, share it with us in the comments or on Twitter with the #WhatTheHealthcare hashtag. I have a feeling these stories are just getting started. The only way we can fix these problems is if we’re not afraid to share them. The next step that might be interesting is pairing these #WhatTheHealthcare moments with solutions.

So far most of the #WhatTheHealthcare stories have been from the patient perspective. It would be interesting to hear all the #WhatTheHealthcare stories from the doctors, nurse, front desk, HIM, etc perspectives as well.

About the author

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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