Healthcare IT Today’s 20th Anniversary

On today two decades back, the extremely initial Healthcare IT Today post went online. Technically, it had not been “Medical care IT Today” at that time, it was the EMR and HIPAA blog site. And since it began as a pastime, I also initally held it at CrashUtah.com/ emr. Concerning a month later on, I ‘d ultimately made adequate to spend lavishly on a really main $15/year domain name: EMRandHIPAA.com.

We have actually come a lengthy method considering that those very early days. And no, I’m not connecting to those initial messages, I’m still as well ashamed to review them myself.

The actual transforming factor for the website came when the Obama management revealed $36 billion in stimulation financing for EMRs (yes it was EMR, not EHR at the time). EMR and HIPAA and its sis website EMR and EHR were currently solid from a seo (SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION) point ofview, so when the whole market began going after stimulation bucks, both websites took off almost over night.

From that minute on, I released a post on both websites each and every single day for 5– ten years. That energy ultimately enabled me to stop my day task, where I carried out an EMR and did full-stack IT sustain prior to delve into permanent blog writing and currently a complete fledge media firm. At one factor we were running 15 various websites covering EMR, EHR, mobile health and wellness, electronic health and wellness, RCM, and the more comprehensive globe of health and wellness IT. The Good News Is, Colin Hung actioned in with a really wise tip: settle every little thing under what is currently Health Care IT Today

If you wish to dive deeper right into the background of Medical care IT Today and listen to a couple of enjoyable tales in the process, look into this video clip meeting where Brittany Quemby, our VP of Advertising, takes a seat with me to speak with the advancement of the magazine.

As you can envision, two decades indicates there are a great deal of tales to inform. And lots of that possibly will just be informed at an event at a meeting like HIMSS, Swaay.Health LIVE, or ViVE. At the core of every one of this are individuals you satisfy in the process. It’s been an opportunity to share numerous tales throughout the years, and our best hope is that these tales assist others browse the complicated globe of health and wellness IT and eventually, make a significant distinction for individuals.

It’s actually unsubstantiated two decades have actually passed because that initial post was released in 2005. A great deal has actually altered, and while some points have not, the one constant is the generosity and consideration of individuals in health care. Almost everybody I satisfy is driven by an authentic wish to boost treatment and aid individuals. That’s something unique, and I really hope Medical care IT Today has actually played also a little component in sustaining that objective.

What’s interesting is I utilized to actually commemorate landmarks as I struck them. Right here is among my first when I commemorated 10,000 pageviews. In between combining websites, switching over analytics devices, and the surge of social networks, it’s virtually difficult to determine our complete influence over two decades. While we do not have best accumulated numbers, we can share several of our latest metrics and we assumed you would certainly appreciate a take a look at them as we commemorate 20 years of supplying fantastic health care IT material.

• 18,188 Articles on Health Care IT Today
• 51,713 Email Customers to the Healthcare IT Today Newsletter
• 6,626,313 E-mails Opened Up in 2025
• 1,800 Video Clips on Health Care IT Today
• 524,300 Video Clip Sights on YouTube
• 2,124,000 Minutes of Watch Time on YouTube
• 105,669 Fans on X/Twitter
• 53,865 Fans on LinkedIn
• 1,881,987 LinkedIn Impressions and 436,253 LinkedIn Members Gotten To in 2025

It’s impressive to assume we’re currently commemorating a multi-decade landmark. Greater than anything, I really feel a frustrating feeling of thankfulness for everybody that’s belonged to Medical care IT Today. What began as a pastime became an occupation, a desire I reach live daily which’s just feasible as a result of our viewers, enrollers, visitors, professionals, audiences, audiences, clients, fans, and certainly, the unbelievable Medical care IT Today group.

On the Healthcare IT Today podcast, we begin every episode with the line, “We LOVE this things.” Throughout the extremely initial recording, I intuitively included a little roar on words love and certainly, that’s what everybody talked about, so it stuck. What impresses me is that, two decades right into this trip, I actually do still enjoy this things I’ll never ever obtain tired of getting in touch with the health and wellness IT neighborhood, and I’ll never ever tire of viewing innovation make health care much better.

As we expect the following two decades, I can not claim specifically where the trip will certainly take us. What I can claim is that health care isn’t reducing and innovation will certainly remain to play a specifying function in enhancing it. We’re happy to be at the center of that advancement and to share it with this unbelievable neighborhood.

Thanks for becoming part of Medical care IT Today. It’s an opportunity to do this job daily.