The First Ever “Unchat” – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by…

That’s right! The #HITsm chat is going rogue this week. The #HITsm chat on Friday, 9/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT) will have no agenda, no host, and no organization. It will be an hour long #HITsm free for all where anyone can propose any topic, thought, idea, meme that they want. You can share a link, a picture, a thought, a question, or anything else you feel like sharing.

Where this will end, no one knows, but that’s what makes it so exciting! If it falls flat, we’ll blame workflow and never do it again.

This chat was inspired by @burtrosen who asked for a chat where the #HITsm community can have a chance to “blow off steam.” I loved the idea and the “unchat” was born. There are so many great people in the #HITsm community, I’m sure that some amazing conversations will happen in this chat and likely on unexpected topics. Not to mention that random conversations are a great way to inspire new relationships.

To be clear, this is a true unchat. Those that join and participate will start the topics, extend the topics, ask questions, etc. The topics don’t even have to be related to health IT. If you want to talk about your holiday vacation plans, go for it. Is there a part of healthcare IT that’s really bothering you or has you really excited, let’s hear it. If you like cats as much as Brian Eastwood, share a cat photo. If you’ve fallen in love with your healthcare chat bot and want everyone to know it, share away. Of course, this is a community, so just be respectful and appropriate the way you’d be if we were hanging out or having dinner.

Given that this is an unstructured #HITsm unchat, there won’t be any formal questions for the chat. The threads will start and extend however the community sees fit. However, we will throw out this first question to get things started and the community thinking:

T1-5: What’s on your mind? #HITsm

We hope you’ll join us for this new #HITsm Unchat. Let’s get to know each other in new and unique ways.

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
9/22 – The Impact of HIEs in Natural Disasters
Hosted by Brian Mack (@BFMack) from @GLHC_HIE

9/29 – Condition Management vs Episodic Care Management
Hosted by Brian Eastwood (@Brian_Eastwood) from @ChilmarkHIT

10/6 – After Death Data Donation – A #hITsm Halloween Horror Chat
Hosted by Regina Holliday (@ReginaHolliday), Founder of #TheWalkingGallery

10/13 – Role of Provider Engagement for Improving Data Accuracy
Hosted by @CAQH

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

If you’re searching for the latest #HITsm chat, you can always find the latest #HITsm chat and schedule of chats here.

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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