Why be involved in social media? When I speak with fellow physicians about my social media activity (blogging on this site and on my personal blog, Twitter, Tumblr, etc), I am often met with skepticism.
Why should we bother? What is the point? What value is there in adding another task to one’s busy day? These questions are even more relevant if considered in the context of social media use outside the US–especially in developing nations and other parts of the world where internet access is not as easily available as it is here. The #hcsmLA Twitter conversation (healthcare communications and social media in Latin America) involves a number of participants in Latin America, and issues of technology access and the digital divide (as well as the more hierarchical and paternalistic doctor/patient relationship often seen in Latin America) have been discussed in this context.
Is it possible to learn from health care social media analytics? « Colleen Young. Early on in the life of the #hcsmca community, I have relied on The Healthcare Hashtag Project to generate #hcsmca transcripts of our weekly chats and to gather analytical data.
I also use the site to register healthcare conference hashtags. I was very pleased when Symplur co-founders Howard Luks, MD (@hjluks), Tom Lee (@tmlfox) and Audun Utengen (@audvin) asked to consult with the #hcsmca community about learning from health care social media analytics during the chat on August 29th at 9pm ET. Guest post by Tom Lee and Audun Utengen Symplur is very excited to join the #hcsmca discussion this week! My colleague Tom Lee (@tmlfox) and I, Audun Utengen (@audvin), spend much of our time building and maintaining The Healthcare Hashtag Project, which is heavily used by healthcare tweet chat participants! ARJalali : First: #FB in #HC by Drs from... Twitter 101 for Docs: Twitter Lingo. At the end of my last post, I said we’d discuss some ways to enhance your professional community on Twitter in an upcoming post.
But first, let’s remain in Twitter 101 so you can understand some of the intricacies of Twitter. If you’ve been on Twitter for even a few days and you’ve started to follow a few people, you might be confused by some of the codes, words, and symbols you see. Don’t worry. OK I’m on Twitter…Now What? A Primer for Physicians (aka Twitter 101 for Docs) So you’ve decided to take the plunge (or at least, dip your toes) into the Twitterverse.
Congratulations! Welcome to a vibrant interactive community. You’ll find plenty of different personalities here and lots of opinions. Mobile. Authors Correspondence to Dr Lucila Ohno-Machado, University of California, San Diego, Division of Biomedical Informatics, 9500 Gilman Dr., Bldg 2 #0728, La Jolla, CA 92093 0728, USA; lohnomachado@ucsd.edu Contributors MvM developed the literature search criteria, performed the search and wrote the manuscript.
DvM assisted in scoring literature results for inclusion. LOM reviewed and edited the manuscript. Received 6 April 2012 Accepted 4 June 2012 Published Online First 3 July 2012 Abstract Adoption studies of social media use by clinicians were systematically reviewed, up to July 26th, 2011, to determine the extent of adoption and highlight trends in institutional responses.
How Doctors Might Handle Medical Questions on Social Media Sites. I received a message from physician friend about how I handle medical questions on Facebook or Twitter.
This is a common concern for doctors and it’s often used as an excuse for avoiding a public presence. My ideas about doctor-patient communication are evolving and may well change as technology evolves. Here are a few thoughts. Patients worried about medical records going digital. It took some time to get a majority of physicians in the U.S. to agree that it would be beneficial to implement electronic health records in their practices.
Now, a survey finds, the most skeptical audience for EHRs is patients. A survey of more than 2,100 patients by Xerox found that only 26% want their medical records to be digital, down two percentage points from a year ago. Only 40% believe EHRs will result in better, more efficient care. And 85% expressed concern about digital records. Their main worries: privacy and security of their information.
It’s Becoming Harder to Fake it as a Speaker. Not long ago I served as a panel speaker at a large, national medical meeting.
The subject matter was social media. The panel consisted of myself, another doctor with a well-established platform and a third woman, a high-ranking member of The Society. The problem was the third panelist. News flash: smartphone users obsessively check their devices. In a study that could be described as confirming the bleedin’ obvious, Finnish researchers have found that many smartphone users obsessively check their devices for e-mails, social media and news.
Really? Seriously? I could have texted that conclusion over to Finland long ago and saved them a lot of time and tax dollars. By Mobify. Officials at SharecareNow announced Tuesday the Top 10 Online Influencers in Pediatrics, a distinction awarded to lead physicians who are driving conversations about children’s health online.
All top 10 influencers are pediatricians who maintain an active online presence across diverse interactive channels – including Twitter, Facebook, video and blogs – and have addressed a wide range of child health topics from infant to adolescent care, with many accounts inspired by their own family lives. Officials at SharecareNow bestowed top honors to Claire McCarthy, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvey Karp, MD, author of "Happiest Baby"; and Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, who writes “Seattle Mama Doc.” [See also: 10 physicians to follow on Twitter.] Vitera Healthcare Solutions Study Indicates That the Majority of Healthcare Professionals Are Interested in a Mobile EHR Solution.
TAMPA, Fla. – August 14, 2012 – Vitera Healthcare Solutions, one of the nation’s largest providers of electronic health records and practice management software and services, announced today the results of its EHR Solutions and Mobile Technologies Study. The Tampa-based Healthcare IT provider, which serves more than 400,000 healthcare professionals, surveyed doctors, executives and practice managers to identify how they currently use mobile technologies and how they intend to use them in the future. The Study found that while 72 percent of surveyed healthcare professionals already use their mobile device for work purposes, only six percent are currently using their devices to connect to their EHR or to e-prescribe.
However, the majority of respondents are interested in a mobile EHR solution, with physicians being the most interested (91%), followed by practice administrators (66%) and billing managers (43%). Googling cancer information: Tips from a cancer survivor. When I got my phone call with the diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), my instinct, like so many of us, was to Google. Today, 3 years later, I have learned about what to look for, what to avoid, and how to manage my natural wish to know as much as possible. The following are suggestions to help others faced with a cancer diagnosis. Google wisely. Google (and Wikipedia) are a reflex. How Are Healthcare Professionals Using Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] Social media is crucial to the development of medicine today. Much has been written about educating patients. This can be in the form of educational materials provided during the office visit, providing access to accurate online medical data, or even educating patients about wellness- how to be well, stay well and live well.
As physicians, I believe that part of our responsibility is to teach. As the familiar adage from residency goes: “see one, do one, teach one” – we have a responsibility to teach patients and to teach each other. Yellowknife meeting tweets to prominence. Report: Healthcare Should Embrace Digital Technology. Written by Kathleen Roney | August 16, 2012 Digital innovation in healthcare has the potential to address three challenges — rising costs, uneven quality and inadequate access, according to "The Digital Dimension of Healthcare" report by the Global Health Policy Forum.
Digital and social media may expand access to and improve the quality of services by putting tools to manage health and wellness in the hands of patients. Some Americans take to the idea of robot healthcare. About one third of Americans are willing to receive some of their healthcare from robots, and 98 percent said they would receive robot care if it meant lower co-pays and health insurance costs. A survey by www.CouponCodes4u.com of 1,723 Americans, aged 18-30, found 34 percent said that they would opt for care from a remote presence virtual and independent telemedicine assistant robot (RP-VITA), if given the choice, while 5 percent of respondents claimed to be “indifferent.”
Untitled. Medicine and Social Media. Will there be a Web 2.0 meltdown? Definition of Meltdown – 1. a state of complete network overload that grinds all traffic to a halt 2. a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown Considering content and community are king, I don’t think a Web 2.0 meltdown is on the horizon. It’s no secret that major players like Google, News Corp, Yahoo and MSN are steadily acquiring various Web 2.0 brands for very large sums of money. Predicting acquisition trends among these companies is not too difficult of a task for any web savvy marketer.
Facebook, ACLU: ‘Likes’ are protected speech. Facebook weighed in this week on a case in Virginia examining whether “liking” something on the social network constitutes free speech. In a friend of the court filing with the Eastern District of Virginia, Facebook said that expressing a preference for something by hitting the Like button should absolutely be protected under the First Amendment.
It not only clearly expresses a preference for something, it is also often intended to spark conversation and discussion, the company argued. In this particular case, the court is deliberating whether it was right for sherriff B.J. Roberts of Hampton, Va., to dismiss six people who supported his opponent in a 2009 election — including deputy sheriff Daniel Ray Carter, Jr., who “liked” the Facebook campaign of his boss’ challenger.
Roberts eventually won the election. In May, U.S. Medicine and Social Media: Your Personal Social ROI - Howard Luks, MD. Face it … new media is not a passing fad. Interactive health records may boost preventive care. #asme2012 Healthcare Social Media Analytics. eHealth raises ethical questions for docs. Physicians who use online consultations for patients when they haven't first treated those patient in person face ethical challenges, according to an open forum discussion at the recent American Medical Association Annual Meeting, American Medical News reports. "There is a potential conflict between the ethical and legal practice of medicine on the Internet," Ron Clearfield, a radiologist and member of the council, told the forum, noting that 10 states allow limited telemedicine licensure.
Request for Submissions to the Next Edition - "The Mobile Edition" of the #HCSM Review! #hcsmca. The pros/cons of using social media in biomedicine: Slideshow. Social Media from the Radiology Perspective: Interview with Sumerdoc. AMA Publishes Online Video Tutorials To Help Doctors Adopt Health IT. On Tuesday, the American Medical Association released online video tutorials to help health care providers better implement health IT systems, Modern Healthcare reports (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 1/17). PHARMAGEEK & SOCIAL MEDIA. How social media is changing health care (Infographic) « Health Care Social Media Monitor. Smartphone use growing among family docs. More family physicians (67 percent) are using smartphones these days, compared to 55 percent at the same time in 2011, according to a Canadian survey by Ontario-based research firm Prism Healthcare Intelligence.
Prism's data, posted on the blog of Toronto-based digital health marketing agency Klick Health, shows that family physicians are doing some interesting clinical tasks on their smartphones, including looking up drug references (58 percent), accessing clinical decision-support (50 percent), taking notes and memos (43 percent), digging into textbook references (38 percent), consulting with medical peers (28 percent), and performing scheduling tasks (17 percent). Interestingly, the most cutting edge mobile functionality continues to elude family doctors, with only 8 percent of surveyed doctors e-prescribing, 6 percent monitoring patients, another 6 percent accessing electronic medical records, and 4 percent ordering lab tests or accessing results. Google before you Tweet is the new think before you speak. Using mHealth to Reduce Pregnancy Related Deaths in Developing Countries - Yaser's Blog.
Last week I attended the Idea Jam Night for Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) here in Toronto. Hacking Health - Healthcare Hackathon in Montréal. iPad Solves Healthcare Providers’ Clipboard Conundrum. "Because their exposure to work is being limited in terms of their hours, we have to come up with novel ways of imparting education," says Patel, who helped conduct astudy that looked at the benefits of the devices to residents. Psychiatry and Web 2.0. Psychiatry is typically a field in which the amount of false medical information and spam-based websites is enormous. In this collection, we provide you with the best podcasts, blogs, slideshows, community sites and many more. Top articles in medicine in June 2012. Smw. New Google and Facebook changes that affect your physician website. Visualizing a medical Twitter hashtag: MDChat. How to get started on Twitter: A primer for doctors. Medicine and Social Media - We're Getting There- Slowly. Recap: Doctors 2.0 & You Paris.
#hcsmca. #hcsmca transcripts « Colleen Young. #hcsmca - Healthcare Social Media Transcript and Analytics. Tweriod - Get to know when your Twitter followers are online the most. How Has Online Access to Health Information Affected Consumers' Medical Knowledge? - Data Points.
14 Ways Social Media May Soon Change Your Doctor's Visit. Social media: how doctors can contribute. #HCSM Twitter Leaderboard...I am N° 16 ....thanks. 14 ways social media may change doctors’ visits. #HCSM Twitter Leaderboard. Connecting Healthcare + Social Media #HCSMny · HealthcareWen. Dr. Don Berwick: Medical Professionalism · HealthcareWen. Home Asklepios. #doctors20. This Is The App That Will Change Everything About Healthcare. Interview: Why I Choose To Be Active in Medicine and Social Media. Join us tonight for our #mHealth chat on Twitter. Welcome to Google Docs. Welcome to Google Docs.
Is Social Media Saving Lives? #HCSM and Google+: Integration? Privacy? Trust? · docforeman. Social Media in Healthcare Infographic. 6 reasons physicians need to be on social media. Physicians & Social Media @ 2012 #hcsmNY · drmikesevilla. May 20, 2012 « What Are HIPPA Regulations? Will the Future Need Doctors? – 2012 Health Foo Ignite. Doctors 2.0™ & You. Ali R. Jalali : TweetReach Stats for #hcsm... Connecting healthcare and social media empowers doctors and patients: #HCSMNY conference. Doctors warned not to use social media with patients. Hcsm. Live from PRSA: Social media gives you a voice.