Twitter Chat Tonight at 9:00 pm EST

Tonight is the regularly scheduled twitter chat. When I checked the schedule earlier this week, I saw no one was listed to host. So I asked @eagledawg if she needed someone to volunteer, and she said yes. So I will be leading the chat tonight on Health/Fitness Technology and Apps.

I know we just had a recent discussion about Autumn App Harvest on #medlibs Twitter chat, but I was curious to take another perspective. I wanted to talk about health and fitness apps that could be useful for clinicians and the community. Also wanted to focus more on how you promote these to the community.

So please join us tonight for #medlibs Twitter chat. For more details, see the post over on the #medlibs blog: Health/Fitness Technology and Apps. I hope to “see” you online tonight.

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Medlibs Twitter Chat TONIGHT, July 26th, Thursday, at 9pm EST

Tonight is the night that I am honored to lead the #Medlibs Twitter Chat on EMR, Meaningful Use, HITECH, CMS Incentive, CMS quality measures, and how medical librarians can get involved.

Twitter chats typically have a set of questions/topics to go through, but then again it is also a fluid conversation. I cannot guarantee we will discuss all of the topics below but these are some items I thought would be great to discuss. So what are some of the items we might be discussing?

1. Introduction: name, title, organization
2. If you are involved with EMR, CPOE, EHR, Clinical Informatics or other aspects of Meaningful Use please explain briefly.
3. How did you get involved?
4. Why should medlibs get involved? In other words why is this so important to organizations?
5. Tips/advice for other medlibs on how to get involved?
6. Why is EBM(evidence based medicine) important?
7. How can medlibs help integrate EBM (evidence based medicine) into EMR/EHR/CPOE?
8. How can medlibs help with providing consumer/patient information?
9. Do you think medical librarians could be Clinical Informatics? Why or why not?
10. Do you see a place for medlibs to be knowledge managers (organizing the data)? Are you doing this?
11. What other ways does the government changes impact medlibs?
12. Anything else as we wrap up?

As we have done previously each item will be posted as Topic #1 and responses should lead with T1 and include the #medlibs hashtag. This will make it easier to follow the conversation. But then again remember this is a fluid discussion. So we could do away with the rules completely. Just think back to Mark Funk’s Janet Doe Lecture at MLA and imagine yourself in a coffee shop with a good cup of coffee to get the ideas flowing. Of course as in previous weeks drinks of all kinds are allowed to help encourage the fluid network!

Note: If you have specific items you think should be addressed in the discussion please leave a comment below or email me.

Following the Twitter chat the transcript will be posted on the Medlibs chat blog. In addition follow-up questions will be addressed here and on the Medical Informatics Section LinkedIn Forum.

A special thank you to Nikki (@eagledawg) for getting the Twitter chat started! Let’s keep the conversation flowing tomorrow tonight (opps!).