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Thoughts On Patient Engagement, Patient-Centeredness and Communication-Centered Medical Records
Sometimes I come across a post that I absolutely must share… such is the case with this re-print of a post by Rob Lamberts, MD, a primary care physician practicing “somewhere in the southeastern United States.” He blogs regularly at More Musings (of a Distractible Kind), where this post first appeared.
“Patient engagement.”
What is “Patient Engagement?” It sounds like a season of “The Bachelor” where a doctor dates hot patients. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was. After all, patient engagement is hot; it’s the new buzz phrase for health wonks. There was even an entire day at the recent HIMSS conference dedicated to “Patient engagement.” I think the next season of “The Bachelor” should feature a wonk at HIMSS looking for a wonkettes to love.
Here’s how the Internets define “Patient engagement”:
- The Get Well Network (with a smiley face) calls it: “A national health priority…
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Online Community Lifecycle in a Nutshell [infographic]
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Richard Millington just published the online community lifecycle infographic. He writes: The lifecycle is your strategy for developing the community. It tells you what to do and when to do it. It’s…
Medicine and Social Media: Your Personal Social ROI – Howard Luks, MD
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A medicine and social media presence offers the physician and their patients a valuable ROI or Social ROI.
See on www.howardluksmd.com
Seven factors for designing successful mHealth projects
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Atanu Garai. 2012. Seven factors for designing successful mHealth projects. XRDS 19, 2 (December 2012), 16-19.DOI=10.1145/2382856.2382865 http://doi.acm.org/10.
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The What, Why and How of Healthcare Landing Pages that Actually Work
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An effective landing page funnels interest into action, connecting a visitor’s expressed interest to a page that convinces the visitor to set a next-step.
See on www.healthcaresuccess.com
Guidelines for How Health Organizations Should Integrate Social Media
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Social Media Tools Should Be an Important Part of Any Health IT Organization’s Overall Communications And Outreach Strategy.
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How the Internet and social media are changing healthcare
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The Internet offers more than WebMD searches to find out what that headache really means. But how should we – and doctors – navigate this tricky space?
You wake up feeling a slight tickle in your throat. You try and shake it off and drink lots of water. After a few hours, it’s still there. Instead of calling your mom or making a doctor appointment, you head to the Internet.
Today, anyone with a computer and a connection can get online and find a variety of results, ranging from simple sore throat to the more serious, like bronchitis and asthma.
But just because we can doesn’t mean we should. In a world where almost everyone is online and can easily find and provide medical solace, is it really, truly a good idea to consider social media and the Web a reliable source of healthcare?
Doctors and hospitals are on the social media bandwagon
Today, more and more members of the medical profession are embracing social media for sharing helpful medical information and providing patient care.
A Pricewaterhouse Cooper conducted survey asked over a thousand patients and over a hundred healthcare executives what they thought of the way many healthcare companies are utilizing social media and the Web, and results show the most trusted resources online are those posted by doctors (60 percent), followed by nurses (56 percent), and hospitals (55 percent).
See on www.digitaltrends.com
How Smartphones Are Revolutionizing Home Care For Alzheimer’s And Autism Patients
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As technological innovation empowers consumers to take greater control over their lives, the health industry has taken particular advantage of emerging internet and mobile devices.
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What drives activity on Pinterest?
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Researchers have released a new study that uses statistical data to help understand the motivations behind Pinterest activity, the roles gender plays among users and the factors that distinguish Pinterest from other popular social networking sites.
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
Interesting research on Pinterest from Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota. I have written extensively on how healthcare organizations can leverage Pinterest for marketing and the data in this study backs up my own research.
See on www.sciencedaily.com
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