YES. We Can.

President Obama - congratulations.

If you need an international healthcare team focused on innovation, we're already assembling one on Twitter.

I donated to the campaign. I was at your speech at Manassas. I'll be here commenting on your policy. I'll be here - fired up. Ready to go. So will many others on Twitter. 

Shameless Repost From The Efficient MD - Twitter and Healthcare Lifehacking

On Thursday, the Efficient MD showed us all how to eavesdrop on docs and med students via Twitter.

Twitter is also a great medium for micro-blogging (despite recent outages and external platforms being taken offline systematically to revamp the system - there's great hope for the company).

I've found news (especially party, launch, and event hints and announcements) increasingly breaks here first - before it's up in the blogosphere - for several sectors, including HIT.

Whether you love Twitter or loathe it, healthcare folks are prolifically populating the site with links and news.

Examples from my recent updates:

jenmccabegorman Anyone else attending Wired:Next Gen Patient Centered Care? June 12-13 in DC http://www.ixcenter.org/eve... about 2 hours ago from web

jenmccabegorman ok, little lite Friday reading, US Congressional Budget Office take on HIT http://tinyurl.com/58yh5x about 16 hours ago from web

jenmccabegorman Every Health 2.0 co. should develop mobile app NOW http://tinyurl.com/5e86dm about 21 hours ago from web

jenmccabegorman @flupianez, thanks for sharing EXCELLENT Health 2.0 videos from your conference in Spain (all intl. Health 2.0 folks take a look!) about 23 hours ago from web in reply to flupianez

Moral of the story for hospital execs: If you don't have someone on Twitter, get going.

Tweeting is one of the best ways to quickly integrate social media into your strategic communications plan. Be forewarned - it may become slightly more addictive than your Blackberry...

Happy Earth Day From World Healthcare Congress 2008

In honor of Earth Day, my personal effort is to save multiple packs of Post-Its, hundreds of cocktail napkins, programs, flyers, and any other sort of disposable material at the 3-day WHCC.

The organizers are certainly helping - water stations in the hallways are stocked with glasses rather than disposable cups or water bottles.

Let's see if they maintain the same green policies at tonight's networking events.

And as to saving Post-Its...those of you who know me know I have a compulsive concept sketching addiction - if there's no whiteboard handy I'll go to town on any pressed fiber product in reach.

As such I've decimated many many Post-Its in the pursuit of the next great blog post.

Twitter, however, allows me to skip all that and virtually 'write' Post-Its (my 140 character messages) in real time.

I'm tweeting live from WHCC right now - you don't even have to create an account (free) to follow my posts (free) - just search for "jenmccabegorman."

I've heard from 2 buddies its almost like being there, so come on over and check it out.

For more formal postings, a bunch of Health 2.0 folks are blogging live here - welcome to virtual, environmentally friendly WHCC coverage (well, except for all that electricity usage for my laptop, Blackberry, etc).