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Social networks improve research, help patients with regimen adherence

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Social networks devoted to specific health conditions offer the potential to improve participants’ treatment and adherence to their health regimen, according to two recent studies.

 

The Veterans Health Administration and University of California-Berkeley have been studying how epilepsy patients use PatientsLikeMe, a network of patients with chronic illnesses. On the site, patient records are de-identified and available to every participant, including researchers and companies focused on improving products, services, and care. Patients using the site can see what works–and what doesn’t–for others in the same boat, according to a blog post at Health Affairs.

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How do you measure social media?

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The 6 step process for measuring social media from Jay Baer There are a handful of social media strategists that I admire and whose advice I am happy to follow. One of these is Jay Baer.  In this p…

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

There are a handful of social media strategists that I admire and whose advice I am happy to follow. One of these is Jay Baer.  In this presentation Jay outlines a six step approach to measuring your social media efforts (and don’t doubt for a second that measuring your social media isn’t crucial to the overall success of your social media strategy!)

Key TakeawaysThe goal is not to be good at social media, but to be good at business because of social media.Understand your business level objectives, and how social media can support them.Know what you can measure and remove metrics that aren’t relevant toSelect the metrics that make sense for your company.

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How a 15-Year-Old Googled His Way to Revolutionizing Cancer Detection

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The press has recently gone wild celebrating what seems like a fantasy wunderkind tale, that of a teenager from Maryland who on his own initiative developed a non-invasive, five minute test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer that is 168 times faster, 26,000 times less expensive, and over 400 times more sensitive than current diagnostic assays.

 

Before you call BS on this seemingly unbelievable story, check out Mr. Jack Andraka’s TED Talk. In his own words you’ll discover how Jack was deeply moved by the passing of a close family friend from pancreatic cancer, a personal tragedy that motivated him to find a way to simplify and improve diagnostics for the devastating disease. Using his “go-to” source for information, Google, Jack keyword searched his way into medical history.

 

What makes this story even timelier and poignant is how it represents the perfect storm of digital health

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PLOS Medicine: Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?

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Despite hundreds of mHealth pilot studies, there has been insufficient programmatic evidence to inform implementation and scale-up of mHealth.We discuss what constitutes appropriate research evidence to inform scale up.Potential innovative research designs such as multi-factorial strategies, randomized controlled trials, and data farming may provide this evidence base.We make a number of recommendations about evidence, interoperability, and the role of governments, private enterprise, and researchers in relation to the scale up of mHealth.

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