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Get published online in the New Year

There are many benefits to getting your name published online. It's easy to write your own blog, but will people find your content? Will people recognize your name as someone who is a subject matter expert in a certain field? More and more consumers are looking for health information and you can generate content and get your name published on various types of online articles, blog posts, editorials, etc.

If you'd like to get your name attached to some online articles, allow me to help you by inviting you to submit a short editorial blog post for one of these websites:

• http://www.MedicineandTechnology.com/ 
• http://www.MedicalSmartphones.com/ 
• http://www.MobileHealthComputing.com/ 

These websites are a part of HCPLive, a comprehensive Internet portal for healthcare professionals managed by Intellisphere, LLC.  If your articles get published on these sites, then you can add this as "writing experience" on your resume. I can provide you with more details about that.

Publishing articles on the Internet will:

• Show potential employers your ability to write in an informal, non-academic setting. This is important on a variety of levels, ranging from marketing to consumer health education.
  
• Demonstrate your ability to develop consumer-friendly content. (physicians traditionally are known to struggle with this, because they tend to speak in scientific jargon and they forget to address important health literacy concerns)
  
• Reveal your familiarity (or expertise) in the specific domains, such as health IT, mobile technology, health education, biomedical informatics, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), iPhone, etc.
• Show that you are comfortable with computers and web-based content (physicians are traditionally considered technology-ignorant by many potential employers).
• Improve your presence on the Internet. By publishing articles on the web, these articles will pop up when people search your name on Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo. 
  

Contact me if you'd like to get something published on one of these sites and grow your online presence in the New Year!

Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

HCP Live is covering updates from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) annual conference in Denver. Glad to see that they're learning about social media and Web 2.0.

If you're interested in a career in medical management, then you should definitely tune in. You can also pursue a master's degree in medical management (MMM) if you're really serious about a career in this field.

To stay tuned, visit: http://www.hcplive.com/hcplive/mgma_2009

Here's some interesting history about the MGMA:

MGMA is the nation's principal voice for the medical group practice profession.

The Association started as a small network of clinic managers, called the National Association of Clinic Managers, which met for the first time in Madison, Wis., in 1926. The name was changed to the Medical Group Management Association in 1963 to reflect the diverse management roles found in group practice.

Now Part of the HCP Live Network

You may have noticed that this blog is now a part of the HCP Live Healthcare Professionals Network. You'll be hearing more about this over the next several weeks as things unfold. I'm very excited to be a part of this network (which includes bloggers like KevinMD). In the meanwhile, I invite you to explore my other blogs that are now a part of this network:

• Medicine and Technology
• Non-Clinical Medical Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities
• Medical Smartphones
• Mobile Health Computing