Robert, Kansas, and Twitter

change:healthcare’s COO Robert Hendrick has been featured  in several stories (practically across the country) for tweeting his outpatient surgery last October. Recently the Kansas City Star plublished a story about ‘Twitter’ titled “More people flock to Twitter as a conduit for information.”

Highlight: “Hendrick is a co-founder of Change:Healthcare, a business that helps clients save money on health care. Hendrick said that twittering his surgery was a way to show people the process and educate them. ‘2 veins down. 2 to go. 1 lower left leg. 1 lower right leg. Top left leg done,’ he tweeted from what he described to his followers as a cold operating room. Twittering, Hendrick said, “gave me a sense of connection to people during the surgery.”

Check out the full story online at the Kansas City Star website or download the PDF here.