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Getting Started with Social Media in Healthcare

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In today’s digital world, social media is having a profound effect on the way information is being conveyed and shared within the healthcare industry. More and more breaking news, clinical studies and new industry reports are being shared and tweeted through social media. Clinical nursing professionals are signing up, creating accounts, sharing information and increasing their presence across social sites. If you haven’t already joined in the movement, now is the time for you to get involved. Here are some simple tips on how to get started with social media and become a part of the social conversation.

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3 ways to get docs to use hospital social media

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Doctors are crucial to hospitals’ marketing and social media strategies but organizations across the country struggle to get their physicians to use social media.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Create educational content:  Ask your physicians for the instructions they repeat throughout the day to patients and suggest they work on an instructional video or article on the subject that the hospital can post online.

 

Do the legwork: Make it easier on doctors by assigning marketing department staff to create accounts and upload physician bios and photos.

 

Share results with physicians: Reward doctors who share their expertise by showing them how their photos, videos or articles led to an increase in traffic to your hospital website or rise in clinic registrations.

 

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60 Seconds Online

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If you want to get an idea of the sheer scale of the creating and sharing that goes on in social media, then check out this infographic by Qmee.

Among the mind-blowing statistics, every 60 seconds:

  • 571 new websites are created
  • 2 million Google searches are undertaken
  • 278 thousand updates are tweeted on Twitter
  • 72 hours of video uploaded to YouTube

Now the question is, how do you get heard among all that online noise??

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It’s Time for Consumers to Get Serious about Their EMRs

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A new survey shows that many consumers are willing to switch doctors in order to get access to medical data

http://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/4498373/preview/stock-footage-female-doctor-talking-to-patient-using-tablet-computer.jpgA recent survey shows that a large number of US consumers (41 percent) are willing to switch doctors in order to get complete access to their medical records. And patient education and increased patient engagement is to blame for this. Doctors, although are not showing the same enthusiasm.

The survey covered over 9000 people in nine countries. Few key findings of the report are:

  • Only About one-third (36 percent) of consumers have access to their EMR
  • Amongst those who have, more than 57 percent have taken ownership of their medical records by self-tracking personal health information, including health history such as physical activity and health indicators such as blood pressure, weight etc.

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