was back up in 20 minutes. It would have taken that long just to get people in the room, Halamka noted.
Virtual meetings and virtual working will only increase in his organization, he says, citing "homesourcing." This hiring trend, whereby employees work principally at home with only rare (if any) trips to the office, is well-suited to New England, where he's based. Competition for resources is intense and the more options available for obtaining talent, the better.
But that's not all Halamka is doing, in terms of technology adoption and experimentation: He is trying out Facebook for rapid application development because of its social networking tools, and extending Web 2.0 technologies across his organizations. He's intensely interested in technologies relating to electronic health records -- he's even had an RFID chip with all his medical records implanted in his arm, in order to explain to patients how it works and the procedures involved.
Sounds like even less sleep is in store for this geek doctor.
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