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For the last 4 years, I’ve been teaching medical and public health students about the use of social media and generally digital technologies in medicine and healthcare and I got a good picture of what kind of medical professionals they would become soon. They represent the new generation of physicians.

Here are my points and observations:

1. They are technophile. I remember the time when there was no internet, I remember the first website I first saw online. They were born into the technology and internet-based world. For them, websites, Facebook, Twitter and blogs represent the basics. They love gadgets and devices.
2. They are fast. They use smartphones, read news online, follow blogs and know what RSS is, they are familiar with multi-tasking. They are much faster than the previous generations therefore they need different tools and solutions in their work.
3. But they use the technology for non-professional purposes

Kristi Eells @Kristi_Eells

Last week, Michael Planchart a.k.a. @theEHRGuy kicked off the second annual #HIT100 contest.  This crowd-sourcing
contest is a really cool, fun way to nominate anyone in the health IT and health IT social media communities, who have been supporting and contributing to the healthcare information technology movement through social media, articles, books, blogging, etc. over the last year.  So far, it’s gotten quite a bit of buzz on Twitter and I’ve even seen some health IT publications talk about it, including a post from Healthcare IT News answering five questions about the contest.

With this in mind, I wanted to share my own list of health IT gurus who I’ve personally followed and supported through social media in the last year.  My list includes:

• @Farzad_ONC – Farzad Mostashari , National Coordinator for Health IT
• @ReginaHolliday – Regina Holliday, founder of #TheWalkingGallery, blogger, speaker and artist using…