As you may have seen in the sidebar I work as a Project Manager for change:healthcare. Well, in addition to providing an amazing application for healthcare consumers, several members of the team also recently wrote a book: My Healthcare is Killing Me. Essentially it is a survival guide packed with tips for the American healthcare consumer. It is available as a free PDF ebook, and for purchase on the site or at Amazon.

I’ve read the book, and even as a rare user of the healthcare system (I’m thankfully pretty healthy ::knocks on wood::) it is a great read with great tips; everything from negotiating a lower price to understanding those crazy EOBs your insurance sends you. Apparently CNN was pretty impressed with the book and our company too. Today they wrote an article on 6 ways to save money on drugs and doctors and featured both My Healthcare is Killing Me and the change:healthcare application. Oh yeah, and they plan on talking about us again on-air on Saturday.

The article was linked from the main page of CNN (and still is at time of writing), and both the book site and application saw a big influx of traffic today. Thanks to our great “acting-as-sys-admin” (who shall remain anonymous) the servers handled everything beautifully, and there was little if any noticeable slowdown on any of our sites. Overall it was an exciting and great day for change:healthcare.

Just wanted to give a big congrats to the entire change:healthcare team, keep up the good work!