Social Media and the Rapid Learning Healthcare System

It is my pleasure to host the 33rd edition of the HCSM review – for those of you still unfamiliar with the model, here is a bit of a back ground:

Health Care Social Media Review is a peer-reviewed blog carnival for everyone interested in health care social media. Our mission is to serve as a hub for posts from the best and the brightest health care social media writers, thinkers, users and proponents worldwide, to contribute to better understanding and adoption of social media in health care. This carnival is intended to showcase posts about health care social media use, best practices, resources, and new social media communities and tools. We seek to spread the word that the use of social media in health care is becoming unavoidable and is of critical importance to both patients and providers worldwide.

This edition of the HCSM review will specifically focus on…