Www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2011/PIP_Social_Life_of_Health_Info.pdf. 25 Notable Start-ups Changing the Medical Information Industry. Information technology is a growing field in the medical sector. Many new jobs are being created by emerging companies like the ones mentioned in this list. From visual and imaging information to health care IT and new products and services, new opportunities are available for individuals who specializes in health informatics, as well as to investors.
These 25 notable start ups are changing the medical information industry. All companies listed below are privately owned. Some Web sites also offer information for employment. This list is categorized and each link is listed in alphabetical order, leading to the company Web site. Healthcare IT Communication and Imaging Technology Patient Care eMedical Lending: This is a new method of financing that connects patients with a network of lenders through eMedical’s relationships with medical practices and their proprietary direct to consumer web-based application.
25 Online Startups Democratizing Medical Data and Information. 25 Web Startups Helping You Learn About Your Own Health. The rise of technology has allowed us to take charge of our own health care. You no longer have to be a nurse to know about your own health. Of course, you are better off when you work with a health care professional to keep track of your health, but you can be a more active participant than ever before. Technology is providing ways to make knowledge more accessible, whether it’s your own health records, or new ways to monitor your vitals. In the end, this makes patient interaction with health care professionals more effective and more meaningful. There are plenty of companies eager to help you learn more about your own health. Here are 25 Health 2.0 companies ready to help you keep on top of your health: Electronic Health Records These companies offer you access to your own health records, as well as helping you share them with members of your health team.
Practice Fusion: This web based electronic health records management system is meant for doctors, but it can also be helpful to you. Startups changing the world in the field of health. Hospitals & Social Media - Fall 2009. Healthcare and social media. Slideshare presentations of the week: healthcare and social media. This week, our collection of Slideshare presentations will be on the theme of health. I wrote a blog post about this recently, and thought it would be interesting to look at the issue in closer detail. 1. Elizabeth Bacon is a Principal and the Chief Design Officer at Devise, an interaction design firm in Portland, Oregon. This is a white paper rather than a presentation, but useful to anyone who is involved in designing a healthcare service. Elizabeth goes through the basics of interaction design but also included are a couple of case studies that look at how design processes impacted the creation of a useful medical system in a hospital. As she say, Medical systems development is anything but a solo endeavour, and products frequently take multiple years to move from being a concept in someone's mind to being released in the market.
Solutions. Thirsty Thursday of Knowledge - What Should Hospitals Tweet Edition - positive disruption by: Tom Martin | New Orleans based Social Media Consultant. Over the last few weeks I've had a slew of meetings with hospitals that either are already or planning to move into social media. In each and every case, the conversation was largely the same. There were a lot of questions about WHAT content to share and HOW to structure that content. Basically, hospitals seem to be struggline with the creation of a relevant content marketing strategy that falls within the HIPPA Guidelines. So I did what I always do. First, look at how many responses I received in just a few hours. 25 responses. Second, if you look at the responses below, you'll see they begin to fall into a few buckets. KBHouston: @tommartin Updates on health related news, prevention advice, cutting edge research breakthroughs AuraFedora: @tommartin Seasonally appropriate "every day" tips.
Andrewk: @tommartin New technology. Jazambos @TomMartin saw Bootcamp open to the public advertised at my local hosp and anything else fitness related andrewk @tommartin New technology. Healthcare Marketing: Making the Case for Social Media. For marketers in any industry—from manufacturing to real estate to banking, and everything in between—making the business case for social media isn’t a quick and easy process. But in healthcare marketing, it’s an understatement to say that gaining buy-in for social media isn’t easy. Consider for a moment just what healthcare marketers are up against: A multitude of privacy regulationsNursing and support staff shortagesIncreasing demand for services thanks to the quickly aging Baby Boomer generation It’s not difficult to understand why some healthcare decision makers may be slow to adopt social media.
But instead of throwing in the towel, consider these 5 tips for making the case for social media in healthcare marketing: 1. The movement has started. In a recent post, he points out that there are 367 US hospitals using social media. Patients Like Me is an online community site created in 2004 by MIT engineers to allow patients to share information and their personal experiences. 2. 3. 4. 5. Medical Monday: Looking to Reach Women about Healthcare? Don’t underestimate the Power of Blogs.
Healthcare Marketing: 5 Social Media Examples. More than ever, it’s essential for hospitals and health providers to rethink their healthcare marketing mix to include social media. The proof is in the numbers: 34% of consumers use social media to search for health information, according to research data from How America Searches: Health and Wellness.1 While it’s easy to identify demand, many healthcare marketers are not exactly sure how they might tap into the social web to reach business goals. To help understand the possible applications, consider these five examples of how the social web can work for hospitals and others in the healthcare industry: 1.
Last February, Henry Ford Hospital became one of the first hospitals to Tweet a live procedure from an operating room. This healthcare marketing tactic can effectively create excitement and raise public awareness for a healthcare organization. 2. Weaving social media into healthcare training initiatives can provide multiple benefits, including: 3. 4. 5.
Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits. The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog . I haven't been to the doctor in almost 2 years. It's not that I haven't been sick during the past couple of years, but rather that finding a new doctor (I moved about 18 months ago) and finding the time needed for a doctor visit (including filling out insurance forms, answering medical history questions, and making the appointment) is difficult for a busy person. But in the future, social media and the web might help to make doctor visits more pain-free. Web-based and social media tools are making it easier to get health information, find doctors, make appointments, keep records, and get support. These tools are revolutionizing the healthcare field and the way people approach the practice of medicine.
If you know of any other great sites or web services that are making healthcare smarter, please share them in the comments. Finding Health Information Receive Care. Keeping Staff “In the Loop” and Connected « Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Admin Last week, we quietly celebrated the anniversary of a recent addition to Mayo Clinic's internal social media world.
Last July, we started brief every-other-daily e-mail newsletter and blog called In the Loop. The idea was to cover Mayo stories that don't quite fit in our regular communication vehicles but are stories that get at the kind of organization that Mayo Clinic is. And stories that get at the kind of folks who work here. And the occasional story that lets us poke a little fun at ourselves. But most of all stories that make us feel good about being a part of this wonderful thing we call Mayo Clinic.
Our mantra was short and snappy. And since it was social media we were after, we decided that we'd best let it grow virally. So, we sent the first issue out to a few dozen people. Then we sat back to watch what would happen. After the first issue, about 150 people signed on. What do we have to show for it after a year? Social Media in Healthcare...Medicine for the Masses: Part 1 | Today, we kick off our blog series regarding social media and its uses in healthcare.
This is the first of four posts on the topic, and I think it makes sense to layout a roadmap so we can all understand where this blog series is going. Below is a brief outline of what each post will touch on, just so you don’t get the idea that I’m rambling without a goal or purpose. I. Current Use/Statistics (7/6/10) II. As I mentioned in the previous post, a lot of this information is drawn from a social media panel discussion hosted by Meers Advertising at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO.
When I first started researching this topic for the social media panel discussion, I watched a short YouTube video called, “Social Media in Healthcare” that had some pretty interesting facts (you can view this video at the bottom of the page). Source: Q1 Productions These statistics highlight a very important point. The 5 examples mentioned are: Matt Healthcare & Social Media: 2009 Trends & Strategy Blogs. ?Twitter Doctors? Lists Medical Kings of Social Media. Twitter Doctors is a new online directory that is trying to rank all of the doctors with Twitter accounts, putting the ones with the highest influence score at the top.
The directory also lists the number of tweets, followers, and retweets each doctor has. However, the site’s usefulness isn’t all that clear. What does the site actually tell us about these doctors? That is, the majority of the most influential doctors are popular culture figures who are largely promoting their own brand. CNN’s medical correspondent, Dr. Tendances des recherches.