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The Regina Lectures – Nov. 28 3. Rounds to medical residents in Regina
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Survey Highlights Healthcare Professionals’ Use of Social Media, Mobile Technology
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It’s a pretty good bet that many of the doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists in your organization have a smartphone and use it on a regular basis.
But what are they using it for? To connect with friends through social media? To search for healthcare information relevant to their jobs? To network with others in their profession? Yes, yes, and yes.
AMN Healthcare recently released the results of its 2013 Survey of Social Media and Mobile Usage by Healthcare Professionals: Job Search and Career Trends. The results showed that healthcare professionals are constantly refining their use of social media, as well as their use of mobile technology.
According to the survey, three out of four healthcare professionals now use a smartphone, with a growing number using their smartphones to access healthcare-related content and job information. In fact, the use of social media for job searching purposes has almost doubled since the first social media survey was conducted in 2010, and now reaches 41 percent.
Infographic
When Patients Share Internet Health Information With Their Physicians
This is an infographic that I created to describe a short “survey” that I conducted for a week in October, 2013 while working for Medivizor.com. The full description of the survey is found here: How Patients Discuss Internet Health Information With Their Doctors.
A ‘Powerful’ Image of Breast Cancer Offends Some Times Readers
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“Many Times readers were disturbed and offended by the front-page photograph of an Israeli woman’s upper torso in Wednesday’s newspaper. It was the dominant image on the page, and it accompanied an article in a series called “The Cancer Divide,” which is examining “how the treatment of breast cancer is shaped by wealth and poverty, culture and values.”
The article explored the high rate of breast cancer in Israel, and an effort to test for the cancer gene in a country where there is also a low rate of preventive mastectomies. Some readers drew a connection between this startling photograph – which showed some of the woman’s areola, an incision scar, and her Star of David tattoo, but did not show her face – and a front-page photograph in Sunday’s Times, which showed the body, but not the face, of a Florida woman, Michelle O’Connell.
The breast cancer photo was taken by Rina Castelnuovo, a contract photographer for The Times in Tel Aviv.
Evaluation of an 8-week supervised exercise program in cancer survivors within 2–6 months of chemotherapy completion.
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Feasibility and efficacy of a supervised exercise intervention in de-conditioned cancer survivors during the early survivorship phase: the PEACH trial – Springer
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
The PEACH trial suggests that 8 weeks of supervised aerobic exercise training was feasible and may improve aerobic fitness, fatigue and quality of life in de-conditioned cancer survivors during the early survivorship phase.
Implications for Cancer Survivors
Exercise interventions commenced in the early survivorship phase appear safe, feasible and may lead to improvements in QOL and fatigue.
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Social Media in Radiology: Early Trends in Twitter Microblogging at Radiology’s Largest International Meeting.
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J Am Coll Radiol. 2013 Oct 17. pii: S1546-1440(13)00438-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2013.07.015. [Epub ahead of print]
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
Markedly increased use of the Twitter microblogging platform at recent RSNA annual meetings demonstrates the potential to leverage this technology to engage meeting attendees, improve scientific sessions, and promote improved collaboration at national radiology meetings.
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The Effects of Preference for Information on Consumers’ Online Health Information Search Behavior
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(J Med Internet Res 2013;15(11):e234)
Background: Preference for information is a personality trait that affects people’s tendency to seek information in health-related situations. Prior studies have focused primarily on investigating its impact on patient-provider communication and on the implications for designing information interventions that prepare patients for medical procedures. Few studies have examined its impact on general consumers’ interactions with Web-based search engines for health information or the implications for designing more effective health information search systems.
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
This study concludes that preference for information has an impact on the search behavior of general consumers seeking health information. Those with a high preference were more likely to use more general queries when searching for specific factual information and to develop more complex mental representations of health concerns of an exploratory nature and try different combinations of concepts to explore these concerns. High-preference users were also more demanding on the system. Health information search systems should be tailored to fit individuals’ information preferences.
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Social media in cancer care: opportunities to improve care in locally advanced breast cancer.
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PubMed Review
To examine the current data supporting use of social media in breast cancer clinical care.
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
A systematic review was conducted to assess the use of social media to enhance breast cancer care. In addition, a Web-based search using common search engines and publicly available social media was conducted to determine the prevalence of information and networking pages aimed at patients and clinicians.Over 400 articles were retrieved; 81% focused on delivery of information or online support to patients, 17% focused on delivery of information to physicians, and 1% focused on the use of social media to improve collaboration among clinicians. Web searches retrieved millions of hits, with very few hits relating to improving collaboration among clinicians.Although there is significant potential to utilize current technologies to improve care for patients and improve connectedness among clinicians, most of the currently available technologies focus solely on the delivery of information.
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What do people want from health apps? A survey of 250 patient and consumer groups
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Social media and the modern caregiver
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Online networks can offer support but can be a source of added stress, too.
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