All Blog Posts Tagged 'care' (15)

This morning I saw an article in the Telegraph (it happens when you follow folks in the U.K.) discussing the results of a small social media study. Ten self-professed Facebook addicts and ten power-tweeters were asked to forgo social media for four weeks. No surprise, many of them started to tweak out a bit, stating they felt disconnected from…

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Rosie O’Donnell described her heart attack on blog, saying she felt an ache in her chest and soreness in her arms, followed by nausea and a “clammy” feeling. She took an aspirin and decided against calling 911. The next day she went to a hospital, where she learned one of her coronary arteries was 99 percent blocked, requiring a stent.

As the daughter of a heart…

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Today, Mashable discussed a new social network for doctors which allows physician-peers to connect and discuss cases, problems and patients in a safe community setting.

iRounds, the aforementioned social network, describes themselves like this:…

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On Wednesday Google teased a new video for Project Glass, an application that allows users to experience augmented reality through glasses. While the video (below) focuses on the day to day functionality of the device, there are important implications of the glasses in health care as well.

Imagine a doctor walking in to patient’s room. Instead of picking up a chart to read his medical history or looking at a screen to check his vitals, the doctor engages an application in augmented…

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The Los Angeles Times’ For the Booster Shots Blog reported yesterday on a new study published "online first" on Monday in the Archives of…

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I have been asked to write up some of the core takeaways from the health care social media presentations I have been giving recently, so I am sharing a version of this narrative on HealthBlawg, in two parts.…

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Hi everyone,

I champion the following conceptual model introduced through a website and blog - Welcome to the QUAD. I have been blogging since April 2006 and there is quite an archive now and a bibliography:



http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/



Originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges (Ret.) at Manchester Metropolitan University - Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]…

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By Palmer Reuther

 

Just got done reading this press release from Makovsky titled "Healthcare Social Media Using All…

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A recent article from Clinical Advisor analyzes the privacy issues that continue to arise as more and more health care institutions employee social media tactics. The article, of course, also examines the personal use of social media by health care professionals…

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This week PricewaterhouseCoopers released results of a new survey which revealed that that, "one-third of Americans would be willing to use their cell phone to track

health information, and about 40 percent said they'd pay for a mobile

phone app that let them refill prescriptions, provided access to health

records or nagged them to take their meds." The survey was completed by 2,000 consumers and 1,000 physicians.… Continue

Picture this: a 3-year-old girl falls and cracks her skull. She is rushed to off to emergency care, but the local hospital may not have all the tools necessary to help the girl and traffic will prevent the child from receiving care from a better staffed hospital. A grim situation, sure, but this little girl was ultimately saved by both the local clinic and the far away hospital. How? Using web-cams and…

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There was an interesting post in The Baltimore Business Journal highlighting the Greater Baltimore Medical Center’s work with social media. The Center has been using a variety of social media—like Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter to promote events and connect with new and current patients. According to this piece, “…

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In my post a couple of weeks ago, I discussed what the "Apple Tablet," now known as the iPad, could mean for healthcare. Now that the iPad has been released and reviewed, the medical community is torn on it's place in their world. My view is a bit more skeptical that it was before the release, but I still look forward to watching this play out. While the iPad may become a convenient replacement for… Continue

Good article from Dan Bowman at Fierce HC.







Most hospitals don't budget, plan for social media

February 3, 2010 — 12:25pm ET | By Dan Bowman

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While a majority of hospitals (nine out of 10) have jumped on the social media bandwagon, a good portion of those facilities (two-thirds) have no formal ideas for how that media should… Continue

Well, better late then never. The FDA has scheduled a meeting for November 12/13 to address how to deal with social media. Make no mistake that this is a significant step forward as it's been a giant gray area for everyone involved. Manufacturers have dipped their toe into social media, some more then others, but have been hesitant to dive in fully since no direction has been given. Certainly, this is the beginning of a long process, but good progress none the less.



Let's just hope… Continue