Healthcare IT Vendor Blogs

After 10 years and 9404 blog posts later, I’ve come to know a little something about blogs. You might also say that I’m totally bias about the power of a well written blog. The reality is that blogging is just a simple way for anyone to publish content online. Blogging has really opened up the opportunity to publish great content to everyone.

With that said, it’s not easy sustaining a blog with great content. The tyranny of time is real and however far ahead you get on your blog, time will eat that away before you can blink your eye. It takes a real commitment to keep a blog up to date with regular content.

To honor some of these efforts, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite healthcare IT vendor blogs. It’s great to acknowledge the effort these vendors put into creating great content. Sure, they likely want to get more exposure for their companies. That’s a given, but that doesn’t diminish that many healthcare IT vendors are creating amazing free content on a regular basis on their blogs. Here’s a quick look at a few that I enjoy.

Information Advantage Blog by Iron Mountain – This blog focuses deeply on the challenge of health information management and topics such as: health information governance, medical records scanning, health data storage, etc. Those in the AHIMA and HIM community will really enjoy the blog, but there’s a little something for anyone interested in healthcare IT.

HL7 Standards by Corepoint Health – Most of you are likely familiar with this blog since it’s the home of the #HITsm Twitter chat. They post the host and topics for each week’s #HITsm chat, but they do much more. The HL7 Standards blog has a wide variety of amazing healthcare IT content from a diverse group of guest bloggers. They rarely put up a post that’s not worth a read.

Kareo Blog by Kareo – The Kareo blog is home to Kareo product updates and the #KareoChat, but they also regularly post some great content. Kareo has long been the advocate for the independent small practice physician. Therefore, you can imagine that their content is all focused around that audience.

CloudView Blog by athenahealth – This blog is a reflection of the athenahealth CEO, Jonathan Bush. You never know what to expect. No doubt Jonathan Bush has created a culture at athenahealth that’s trying to push boundaries and we often see that reflected on the athenahealth blog. In fact, the best posts on the athenahealth blog come from Jonathan Bush himself. I also love that the CEO of the company is present on the blog. Some might argue that it’s not really Jonathan writing the post, but when you read his posts it’s all Jonathan coming through in the message.

There are many more great healthcare vendor blogs out there. If you have some favorites or ones I should check out, please share them in the comments. If we get enough recommendations we’ll do a follow up post featuring other healthcare IT vendor blogs.

Enjoy the light reading this holiday weekend!

Full Disclosure: I’ve written a few posts over the years for the Kareo and Iron Mountain blogs.

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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