Health IT Gets Into the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS ice bucket challenge has finally made its way to heatlhcare IT companies. I’m sure at some point I’ll get tired of seeing these videos, but it hasn’t happened yet. There’s something really enjoyable about watching someone get a bucket of ice water dumped on them. Especially people you wouldn’t expect to do it.

Here are two of the latest Health IT people to take part in the challenge.

Neal Patterson, CEO of Cerner accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Neal challenges John Glaser, CEO of Siemens Health Services, and he accepted

John Glaser has nominated the whole Simens Health Services employees to take the challenge. So, there are more videos to come. What could bring a company together more than all dumping a bucket of ice on each other?

What an amazing effort for ALS too. The ALS site just noted that donations have reached $53 million. I want to see Judy Faulkner take part.

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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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