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Social Media Guide for Chief Executives In The NHS

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See on Scoop.it – Health Care Social Media Monitor

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Aimed at chief executives in the NHS, exploring leadership in the digital age. This briefing explores how using social media platforms can help chief executives develop a collaborative leadership style that helps get results in the complex system of health and social care. It answers four questions:

What is social media and who is using it in healthcare?Where does social media align itself with the wider policy context?Why should every NHS chief executive be social media literate?What guidance and examples exist of NHS chief executives already using social media well?

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Can’t tweet or won’t tweet? What are the reasons behind low adoption of web 2.0 tools by researchers?

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Evidence from the Research Information Network suggests many UK academics are reluctant to adopt web 2.0 tools for their work, worried that such tools are not seen as credible or useful. 

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

lack of time to try new tools and lack of institutional incentives to make time to use them;their value not being made clear or the tools not being seen as credible;concerns around sharing ideas and data online;

For researchers in developing countries there are also serious legal, cultural, technological, and language barriers to adopting web 2.0 tools for collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

See on blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Five Questions About Digital Technology to Ask Your Doctor

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David Lee Scher, MD's avatarThe Digital Health Corner

While many in the technology and business communities think of digital health technologies as emerging or yet to be adopted, there are tools available now that patients need to not only know about, but should ask their physicians about.

1.    Do you have electronic health records?  The answer to this will likely be obvious as the physician answers the question while staring at his PC or tablet (an EHR- related behavior, a topic for another post).  If this is a first visit to a new physician and the answer is ‘”No”, associated with a snarky comment or is even politely negative, head for the hills.  This implies that there is not enough interest in investing in technology that the rest of the working world has adopted. If the reply is motivated by finances, then the investment in your future is something not valued. If the answer is yes, ask…

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Discordance in patients’ and professionals’ motives and use of social media in health care

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The results of a recent Dutch study has indicated discordance in patients’ and professionals’ motives and use of social media in health care.

The study set out to investigate patients’ and health professionals’ (a) motives and use of social media for health-related reasons, and (b) barriers and expectations for health-related social media use.

The results showed that patients primarily used Twitter (59.9%), especially for increasing knowledge and exchanging advice and Facebook (52.3%), particularly for social support and exchanging advice.

Professionals primarily used LinkedIn (70.7%) and Twitter (51.2%), for communication with their colleagues and marketing reasons.

Patients’ main barriers for social media use were privacy concerns and unreliability of the information. Professionals’ main barriers were inefficiency and lack of skills. Both patients and professionals expected future social media use, provided that they can choose their time of social media usage.

What are the implications of this study for those seeking to leverage social media in healthcare? The study suggests that we must take into account the underlying motives, barriers and expectations of both healthcare professionals and patients in their use (or not) of social media.

Ref:

Antheunis ML, Tates K, Nieboer TE. Patients’ and health professionals’ use of social media in healthcare: Motives, barriers and expectations. Patient Educ Couns. 2013 Jul 27. pii: S0738-3991(13)00265-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2013.06.020. [Epub ahead of print]