by Tony Chen

My inbox (virtual and physical) is piling up way too fast. With our schedules, does anyone actually keep up with all the various publications and newsletters that are sent to us. Let's take a quick inventory:

Healthcare Executive
HFM
Frontiers
FierceHealthcare daily news
FierceHealthIT weekly news
Advisory Board Daily briefing
HFMA Weekly News
Sg2 weekly briefing
McKinsey on Health Care and McKinsey Quarterly
Fast Company
Business 2.0
Trends Newsletter
SHSMD weekly
Blogs (Health Affairs, healthcareblog, HIStalk, Running a Hospital, WindberCare, others)
ModernHealthcare
MH Daily Dose
Crain's Chicago Business
The May Report
Hospital Impact (of course!)

Too much! Question for you: what are the three most important things you read every week? If you are a forward-thinking hospital innovator, where do you go to find the top 5 things you need to know for the week?

The other thing that's missing is the synthesis of all this info. I don't just want news or tidbits, I need to tease out implications, contexts, and creative linkages. What President Lincoln is still true today - we have enough information, we just don't have enough wisdom.