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Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media networks for communication between users via short messages. Technology proficient physicians have demonstrated enthusiasm in adopting social media for their work.ObjectiveTo identify and create the largest directory of emergency physicians on Twitter, analyse their user accounts and reveal details behind their connections.
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Social Communications & Healthcare 2012: Case Studies & Roundtables.
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This Storify piece traces articles that report on the epatient movement, engagement and changes to the patient/provider relationship from 2011 to present.
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The world is experiencing a revolution in healthcare. The exponential growth of mobile communications, not only in developed countries but also in the developing world, combined with increasing innovation in harnessing the power of mobile technologies,…
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Social media is a group of Internet-based applications that allows individuals to create, collaborate, and share content with one another. Practitioners can realize social media’s untapped potential by incorporating it as part of the larger social marketing strategy, beyond promotion. Social media, if used correctly, may help organizations increase their capacity for putting the consumer at the center of the social marketing process. The purpose of this article is to provide a template for strategic thinking to successfully include social media as part of the social marketing strategy by using a four-step process.
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Online weblogs and journals developed by people affected by illness are popular vehicles for personal expression and peer emotional support. These sites can also offer insight to healthcare providers about patient opinions, habits and actions. These same media can also be effective and efficient tools for exchanging information between patients, providers, or between a patient and his/her provider(s).
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Driven by an eclectic group of stakeholders the interest in patient-reported health data has grown exponentially in the last decade and shows no sign of waning. Patients themselves are expanding their circle of knowledge beyond healthcare providers and clinicians to include other patients through personal as well as virtual connections. Healthcare institutions and clinicians in the US, many incentivized by healthcare reform are seeking innovative ways to meet meaningful use criteria for their electronic health records. Pharmaceutical companies that previously viewed the physician as their primary customer are finding new ways to engage directly with the end user of their products. Governments around the world are getting involved with initiatives designed specifically around patient generated data. An example in the US is the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
The volume of patient-generated health data poses a particular challenge across all stakeholder environments. Traditional methods of health data collection, processing, measurement, validation and analyses are designed not around patients but around the systems within which the data resides. Clinical taxonomies rarely align with patient folksonomy leaving translation of patient-generated health data vulnerable to inaccurate interpretation.
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Abstract Patients, caregivers, family, friends, and other supporters are increasingly joining online health communities to share information and find support [Fox, Medicine 2.0: Peer-to-peer healthcare. 2011]. But web 2.0 technology alone does not create a sense of community. To build and sustain a successful online health community, you need a connector and evidence-informed, strategic community management.
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Abstract Background: Social networking in the context of health is a fairly new phenomenon. The diabetes online community (DOC) is a way for individuals with diabetes, and their caregivers, to engage with others who have a vested interest in diabetes. The DOC encompasses diabetes specific social networking sites, general social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter), blogs, vlogs, and discussion boards. Different from medical advice, DOC users are generating peer-to-peer discussions about diabetes based on their own experiences. There is a lack of understanding about peer-to-peer health on disease specific social networking sites as it relates to value gained by the individual members.
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An increasing number of patients turn to the Internet to seek information and support. Online support groups, in particular, have shown a strong potential to foster supportive and resourceful environments for patients without restrictions of time, space, and stigma.
Research has found that users of those groups exchange various types of support, such as informational support, emotional support, and social companionship. However, due to the scarcity of research, many other aspects of depression online support groups remain inconclusive. For example, knowledge gaps exist in the areas of user characteristics, patterns of use, and relationship between the two. In particular, little is known about how user characteristics, such as gender, age, illness severity and treatment history, affect the way they use depression online support groups. For instance, severely depressed users may request emotional support more often than less depressed users.
Users with less depressive symptoms, on the other hand, may request informational support and social companionship more often than severely depressed users. Users of younger age may receive support more often than they to others, while older users may give support more often than they receive. But those hypotheses are not yet tested.
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