by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter
Whenever I go to Starbucks I get a Single Tall Americano (written as STA) for about three dollars. When I engage in this transaction, not only do I get a fairly good cup of coffee; I also get the cultural “right” to sit in Starbucks for around 45 minutes, –...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter
Above is a photo that my father took of me one morning, years ago, as we walked around the streets of Paris. It’s around this time I learned something quite important. You see, Americans struggle a little bit with Paris. They know there is something special about...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | CEOs on Twitter, Twitter, Twitter Ethics
It’s one thing for your healthcare organization to have an organizational twitter account. Consumers of these tweets expect the content from these tweets is coming from an anonymous source within the organization; there is also an expectation it’s going to be...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | CEOs on Twitter, Social Media, Twitter
I had an interesting discussion the other day about whether or not Healthcare CEOs should be on Twitter. Of course they should. Lets get right down to it. Right now, healthcare exists in a mixture of a 1.0 and 2.0 Universe. By this I mean healthcare organizations have...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Play, Social Media, Twitter
Let me start here. We physicians don’t get a lot of points for play (and Play’s cousin – Creativity) within the practice of medicine. Moms don’t bring their 5 year old son in with severe strep throat to be placed on an antibiotic that hasn’t...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter
There will be a lot healthcare systems can learn from Hawaii’s recent false alarm regarding an incoming missile. Much of this will center around the relationship between system complexity, human error, and system failure – subject which all doctors understand....
