A New Forum for Healthcare IT: StackExchange
I regularly contribute to StackOverflow, a free, community powered Q&A site, about once a week. Whenever I have a challenging IT question in a particular domain, I find StackOverflow or one of it’s fellow sites in the StackExchange network, to be the fastest, cheapest, easiest route to getting feedback or suggestions. The unique mix of reputation and rewards for answering questions seem to have engendered a community that is actively interested in posing technical questions, and answering them well.
And so I am excited to learn StackExchange is planning on expanding to a site that focuses on Healthcare IT related questions as well. I think this would be a great edition to the HIT community, and provide a reputable source for HIT related Q&A beyond what can currently be offered by the hodge-podge of forums and groups that exist today. The site is still in the planning and proposal state, everyone is welcome to check it out, and contribute.
