Over the weekend, a product manager from Google came to LifeSpring to see how he might get involved in our IT Steering Committee. I think both sides were a bit star-struck... us wanting to learn more about his work with enterprise applications at Google, and he wanting the complete tour and story of LifeSpring's growth.
In fact, upon arrival, he talked about how excited he was to finally see LifeSpring. I figured he had heard about our hospital through the pre-TED visit a couple of weeks ago, where two Google senior managers came to visit our hospital.
But instead, he said that he had heard about LifeSpring from Sonal Shah -- previously at Google.org and now...
...heading Obama's recently-created Office on Social Innovation and Civic Participation! -- essentially the White House's office on social enterprise.
Now I'm the one star-struck!! It's amazing to me to think that the head of this office not only has heard about LifeSpring, but has told others about it as well...the power of word of mouth...
Now I'm wondering how to get Obama to come to one of our hospitals! -- maybe it's not so far-fetched after all...
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