ADVANCE for Health Information Executives

As many of you who read my blog regularly know, I'm a huge model railroad enthusiast. I have a small, but growing, 4 x 8 model railroad layout in my basement, depicting a fictitious short line railroad, the Albany & New England, loosely affiliated with the Boston and Maine Railroad, and also the Boston and Albany Railroad. My Albany & New England Railroad is set near Chatham, N.Y., in the fictitious town of Chatham Junction, around the time when Conrail was divided between CSX and Norfolk...(read more)

About four months ago, I posted a blog asking our readers if they were using social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., for professional purposes. The majority of those who responded seem to have discovered social media as a pretty good way to connect with their peers in the industry. Consider these comments we received: "Social networks are turning into multi-functioning sites that allow you to have fun, while also giving you the ability to establish professional relationships,"...(read more)

...well, not really. In the beautiful world of social networking and social media, you can live in infamy, for the rest of your earthly existence or beyond for that matter. Facebook recently posted a blog about the need to memorialize an account when someone dies (and to think, life used to be so easy). Now, not only do you have to file a for a death certificate when a loved one dies, you need to make sure you memorialize their Facebook account (and if Facebook is doing it, others will most certainly...(read more)