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Mobile devices have the potential to become powerful medical tools…
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patient use of social media helps push diabetes surgery into mainstream
A new study has found that diabetes patients who had tried bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) used social media outlets to advocate for the procedure and show how it had positively impacted their Type II diabetes.
Business intelligence company Wool.labs used its technology WebDig to track every conversation accessible on the Internet and determined the trends among diabetes patients and healthcare providers as related to options to help manage diabetes including bariatric surgery.
We believe that the patient wave of support in social media has helped push diabetes surgery into mainstream acceptance faster~ Michele Bennett, chief operating officer of Wool.labs.
Current trends show that patient conversation was ultimately a key contributor to physician acceptance of weight loss surgery as a tool to control diabetes.
Social media provides a unique window into patient and physician experiences. We can also see how those perceptions impact the patients relationship with the healthcare community ~ Scott Reese, chief executive officer of Wool.labs
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Facebook launches new health app to coincide with London 2012 Olympics
Following on the heels of Facebook’s enabling its users to share their organ donation status, the social networking site has teamed up with GE Healthcare to launch a new health app – HealthyShare.
The app, the launch of which coincides with the start of the London 2012 Olympics, allows people add health and fitness goals to their timelines, and includes a range of fitness and diet challenges. Leveraging the popularity of health apps and fitness trackers such as MapMyRun, the new Facebook app also features workouts sponsored by Olympians Michael Johnson and Summer Sanders and Olympic hopefuls Kevin Durant and Alex Morgan.
When I speak with fellow physicians about my social media activity (blogging on this site and on my personal blog, Twitter, Tumblr, etc), I am often met with skepticism. Why should we bother? What is the point? What value is there in adding another task to one’s busy day?
These questions are even more relevant if considered in the context of social media use outside the US–especially in developing nations and other parts of the world where internet access is not as easily available as it is here. The #hcsmLA Twitter conversation (healthcare communications and social media in Latin America) involves a number of participants in Latin America, and issues of technology access and the digital divide (as well as the more hierarchical and paternalistic doctor/patient relationship often seen in Latin America) have been discussed in this context. Although in the US we do not face the…
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How do you feel? Inaccurate health info is readily available to those who aren’t fluent in search
‘If you consider yourself a discerning web surfer, how do you feel knowing inaccurate health information is so readily available to those who aren’t Google-fluent?
Have you ever headed that risk off at the pass by performing medical searches for your loved ones? How do you imagine your doctor would react?’
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A Healthcare Social Media Policy In 12 Words
That every business should have asocial media policy in place is a given. I have no doubt that the Mayo Clinic have a detailed policy in place, besides this brief one listed below, which though pithy, covers all the bases beautifully.
Don’t Lie, Don’t Pry
Don’t Cheat, Can’t Delete
Don’t Steal, Don’t Reveal
The Online Couch: Mental Health Care on the Web – CHCF.org
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Innovative online tools are giving people with depression easier access to therapy, self-care, and peer-to-peer help.
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how the new generation of doctors and e-patients use social media
Dr Mesko is my “go to” source for health care social media
Last week, I got an invitation to speak at the Central European University about how the new generation of doctors and e-patients use social media. I also described how crowdsourcing works in medicine.
As there were only health economists, economists, lawyers and business people in the audience, I received some great questions. It was particularly interesting as these people had a good picture about healthcare but did not know much about social media.
Q: Is there a site where patients can track their own conditions and meet each other? It would be a great idea.
My answer: Plenty of them, one example is Patientslikeme.com
Q: Is it possible to somehow curate medical social media channels?
My answer: Of course, see Webicina.com.
Q: It would be great to have a site where doctors can talk to each other.
My answer: There are over 60 of them.
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Social media in health and medicine
Social media in health and medicine: A workshop for students – Dr. Kim VollDean Giustini, UBC biomed librarian IHHS 302 May 2012
….although troubling to many in public health …web 2.0 is here to stay…and it will almost certainly influence health behaviours in the future.Health is a logical area where people will seek opinions from others and communicate their experience … In the new era of social media, all public health officials will have to learn how to more effectively listen to these messages and, simultaneously, develop more lively and engaging messages to communicate with the public.” Kumanan Wilson, MD MSC & Jennifer Keelan, PhD Coping with Public Health 2.0, CMAJ
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