20 New Twitter Sources for #healthit and #HITsm Topics

During the first 10 days of July, the tweet streams I use for monitoring the #healthit and #HITsm hashtags on Twitter were flooded with a lot of tweets related to the 2014 #HIT100 event. At times, the nominations for people I already knew about (and all the spam that seems to accompany events like the #HIT100) were a bit too much to sift through. But as is the case when panning for gold, I had to be willing to sift through LOTS of soil to find a few precious flakes.

Good People to Follow on Twitter

Here are some of the "precious flakes" I believe will provide value to those interested in healthcare information technology and social media. 

Note: You can follow all of these folks using this HIT100 Twitter list I created or pick and choose those that may interest you. Or skip all of them.

David E. Albert, MD @DrDave01
- Physician, Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur

Howard Brooks @HowardbrooksEY
- Americas Life Sciences Leader @ EY; @JDRF advocate

Austin Chiang MD @AustinChiangMD
- Youngish doctor with many aspirations.

Naomi Fried @NaomiFried
- Chief Innovation Officer @Boston Children's. #Telehealth and #HIT Evangelist

Craig Fukushima @ctffox
- Health care Consultant with over 30 years of operational experience.

R. Grossmann, MD @ZGJR
- TEDx Futurist / Surgeon

Bill Hersh @williamhersh
- Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU

Martin Kelly @martykelly
- Founder @health_XL previously Partner IBM Venture Capital 

Paul Lane @PBLsciupdate
- Medical Publications Professional

Michael Martineau @eHealthMusings
- eHealth consultant and commentator

Greg Matthews @chimoose
- Healthcare. Social media. Enterprise change management.

Sally McGee Barlow @lonestarsally
- RN, Associate Director Business Analytics

Sean McGuire @SeanNMcGuire
- Health Policy Wonk. America's Healthcare Challenge Host.

Jan Oldenburg @janoldenburg
- Chief editor of Engage! Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement.

Ruby Raley @ruby_raley
- Itinerant Technologist focused on Health Care and Supply Chain

Keith Salzman @klsalzman
- CMIO at IBM

Dale Sanders @drsanders
- Healthcare #DataWarehousing & #analytics guy.

Mark Underwood @knowlengr
- Big Data, Cyber security, informaticist

Alice Westerfield @AGWesterfield
- Data Integration and Data Management

Mary Pat Whaley @Mary_Pat_Whaley
- Physician Advocate. Resources for Physicians & Managers at Manage My Practice