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Hospitals are like big corporations. We’ve written about this already in other posts and it’s more true than ever these days. Hospitals exhibit all the elements of the modern corporation (actually there is a neat writeup about how the corporation has evolved): intransparent, hierarchical, heavy. Now, in contrast to hospitals, corporations know that collaborational tools are vital for any big, closed social network. They act as the communicational backbone and make sure that the people who are supposed to be on the same page are on the same page. Now there are certainly flaws to existing systems, otherwise the old fashioned e-mail wouldn’t exist as the primary form of communication. These software applications enhance internal corporate communication, facilitate workflows between different teams and create a sense of corporate identity. We are big fans of those fancy web applications with staggering valuations, big rounds of funding and superstar founders and thus we’ve looked into some web applications that could find their way into a modern hospital environment. This is the first in a series of posts on collaboration tools. Stay tuned for more good stuff to come.   Yammer was coined the “Twitter for Companies“. It was launched a couple of […]