Audun Utengen

Anusha Chidharla , MD1; Audun Utengen , MBA2; Deanna J. Attai , MD3; Emily K. Drake , MHP4; G.J. van Londen , MD5; Ishwaria M. Subbiah , MD6; Elizabeth Henry , MD7; Martina Murphy, MD8; Maura M. Barry , MD9; Rami Manochakian , MD10; Scott Moerdler , MD11; Stacy Loeb , MD12; Stephanie L. Graff , MD13; Yan Leyfman , MD14; Michael A. Thompson , MD, PhD15; and Merry J.

Social media comprises internet-mediated communication channels that allow an individual to create content, share messages, and exchange information and ideas via text, pictures, and videos, with the potential to reach others independent of geography and real-world relationships (Table 1).

Yesterday, February 21, 2012, happened to be a historic day in healthcare social media. The participants at the HIMSS12 conference (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Conference 2012) in Las Vegas tweeted the hashtag #himss12 a total of 6,438 times. I don’t know about you, but if you had your Twitter client up and running yesterday like I had, you simply couldn’t avoid the steady stream of tweets from healthcare tweeps at the conference.