The Connection of Sports and Healthcare

June 26, 2014
John Lynn
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It seems like the soccer tide has hit the US as more and more as ESPN finally decided to broadcast the entire World Cup. The viewer numbers have been great. I expect many in healthcare will be tied to their computers or a TV in their hospital watching the US play Germany today. While not totally universal, it’s amazing the way sports can bring people together.

I was reminded of this when I saw this tweet from Mass General Hospital in Boston:

I’m a Dolphins fan, but understand why many would love to see Gronk and other Patriot players at their hospital. Pretty cool. Plus, so many hospitals are non-profits, so I guess this is considered charity work for the players. No doubt sports can be a great way for a team to bond together.

Of course, what does this have to do with healthcare IT? Nothing really. Unless you’re the IT director at a hospital that’s watching your bandwidth consumption during the 2 hours of the World Cup go through the roof. That would be interesting to see.

I guess it’s fair to say I have a bit of World Cup fever as well.

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John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

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