Posted By Damjan DeNoble

I discovered Ms. Whaley’s Manage My Practice Blog via twitter.  The @mpwhaley twitter is characterized by a mix of informative, and up to date tweets on health industry marketing innovations.  Ms.Whaley is a rare type of twitter user that has a fantastic grasp of tweet volume and frequency (I wish I could say the same about my own twitter stream @Damjan_DeNoble ).

In any case, Manage My Practice Blog and Asia Health Care Blog are now linked to each other, so when you are done here make sure to check there out as well via the link on this page or the one listed under the blog roll. Manage My Practice’s newest article is called Learn This: Digital vs. Analog and June 12, 2009 contributed by Mr. Abraham Whaley .  The concluding excerpt reproduced below gives a good idea about the rest of the article. It also includes Ms. Whaley’s thoughts about the implications of the health industries shift from analog (think paper charts at the foot of a patient’s bed) to digital technologies (think EMR);

The important thing to remember is that just because something says “digital” it isn’t necessarily a huge leap over an old technology, or even particularly new. But now that you know what digital and analog means, you are empowered to decipher any such attempts at newfangled tomfoolery. Stay tuned to ManageMyPractice.com for the resources you need to stay ahead of the curve. Cheers!

Note from Mary Pat: The change to digital technology has tremendous implications for healthcare. Think about telemedicine, electronic health records, and sharing of all information digitally. Expect some significant changes down the road in medical records between Obama’s stimulus plan and dollars for HIT and the transition to digital technology.

The full article is a great read.

Thanks again Mary!