This photograph is from a session using Tapulous’ Twinkle software, which is a location-aware version of Twitter. This exchange is evidence that the iPhone’s most powerful innovation is not 3G, it’s GPS, which Apple, Inc., has now seeded into the mainstream, just as it did with a host of other technologies, like Wi-Fi.

What is shown here is community being created with complete strangers based on location - this exchange happened when my tweet was broadcast to everyone within a 1 mile radius of the San Francisco airport.

Some of you out there have been expressing your reservations about Twitter, Friendfeed, and the like. Here’s a nice article about both. Don’t be reserved, these are important technologies that will have applications in healthcare. Get your Twitter accounts now. Post your ideas in the comments, as well, please!

And San Francisco, thanks for being nice. You never disappoint.

• Twitter Brand Index « Fluent Simplicity - Look who's on Twitter. Pretty light in the healthcare space, but attracting a nice crowd

• 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe | FlowingData - A ha - Twitter could be used to map out social networks of influence in organizations (medical groups? health professionals? students?), cheaply….

• An Exploration of Technology Diffusion — HBS Working Knowledge -
• The New Math of Customer Relationships - Which comes first though, customer (patient), or employee (provider) satisfaction in this equation?
• Endless Meetings Speed Up the Pace of Change on the Gemba - Sometimes spending more time to achieve consensus is worth it. I am now wary of the excessively timed meeting.
• Tumblog in WordPress - my own personal Twitter? - D’Arcy Norman dot net - Grand unification for wordpress and Twitter? Interesting to think about…
• What is the World Café? - An interesting conversational process. Could it replace traditional CME? I think something should…
• Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision - The eternal issue of diffusion

April 29th through May 4th:

• Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories - Interesting concept of storytelling using Web2.0
• As Doctors Get a Life, Strains Show - WSJ.com - I think this article, which portrays GenY physicians in a somewhat negative light for wanting balance, may miss out on what Jack Welch said, which is that this generation is looking to create true meaning, without wasting time or resources.
• Impact of Chronic Disease - Terrific site on understanding the impact of chronic disease in the U.S.
• Home Tweet Home: Energy-Savvy House Broadcasts on Twitter | Wired Science from Wired.com - More interesting uses for Twitter. I think there's great potential in health care for discovering how family/community are adhering to regimens or how they're feeling, e.g. chronic pain.
• Scott Shreeve, MD: Health 2.0: The Definition -

April 1st through April 2nd:

• Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » I really hate Zotero - Like the concept, wants to improve the implementation
• Medical Home | Solution to Chronic Care Management? | Health Care | Disruptive Innovation for a New Primary Care Model | Center for Health Solutions - Deloitte LLP - Very nice overview of Medical Home, particularly with the rundown of stakeholders in the back, plus the medical home cost model.
• WordPress ? Support » Tags Import As Numbers, Not Words - Importing issues Wordpress
• Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 ? Co-produced by TechWeb & O’Reilly Conferences, April 22 - 25, 2008, San Francisco, CA -
• Compare Accounts | YouSendIt - Store and forward service for the times when e-mail isn’t so efficient. I use XDrive.
• Convert Your Paper to iPaper | Scribd - An ambitious project to convert paper , no extra charge
• John Furrier Says Google?s CIO is Leaving for EMI - Interesting change of employer, could the same thing happen if a Google employee was recruited to run a health care organization?
• Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool | ICT in my Classroom - Nice discussion of the uses of Twitter in education
• VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos - An interesting image, video, voice annotating service. What are the applicaitons in medical group training and patient involvement

March 7th through March 11th:

• Frist Advocates Higher Medicare Payments for Doctors Who Use EHRs - iHealthBeat - An idea to promote network preference among physicians who adopt HIT.
• Marissa Mayer’s 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company - I love number 5
• The Curious Genius of Twitter - Evan Williams - Tweet | Fast Company - Will Twitter go the way of friendster? I think there could be applications of Twitter in Health Care (really)
• Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines - washingtonpost.com -
• Farm Workers Service Wheel - Services for farm workers in Sonoma County. Showing that the Internet can serve everyone