Happy New Year! It is 2011 and we are excited for a new year. As I think about this blog, I would love for it to be more interactive with our customers, so I am hoping to pose some interesting questions over the course of the year and hope that it will generate some feedback among users and a community where practitioners can get great ideas from their colleagues.
I recently saw the movie “The Social Network” and then read an article about Mark Zuckerburg in Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. I am very intrigued by what is happening in the social networking realm, and even more interested in how it will affect businesses over time. Certainly most of us have heard of Facebook and many of us use it on a regular basis, but it has always been more for keeping in touch with friends, viewing pictures. There are some businesses that are using it for distributing information, but it seems it is more for sales and updates.
With that in mind, I was wondering how Trigram might be able to use their web based platform to increase the knowledge base of our users for the good of the entire CAM and Medical community that use our product. One of the things I was thinking about was potentially creating a news status update on the home page when you log in. I would love to see an environment where practitioners can post successful procedures, remedies, or best practices that would be constantly updated on a live basis so that when you log in, you can see what your colleagues are doing to make them successful. I was also thinking that it might be interesting to provide patient notes in a completely anonymous form (no name, location, practitioner name or any other specific identifier) in order to show what others in the CAM market are doing. This could provide others in the industry new ideas, or even new ways to treat patients that would improve and grow not only their practice, but also the CAM market itself.
Do you think this would be helpful to practices, or would it be too out there in terms of privacy? I would love to hear your thoughts.
