A study of the use of Online Health Communities (OHCs) as a tool to facilitate high-quality and affordable health care for future generations. The study concluded that OHCs are a powerful tool to address some of the challenges chronic care faces today. OHCs help to facilitate communication among professionals and patients and support coordination of care across traditional echelons, which does not happen spontaneously in busy practice.
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A study of the key qualities of healthcare that influence patient appraisal of satisfaction with primary care. Content analysis revealed that patients perceive and value at least seven domains of healthcare in defining outstanding quality (access, communication, personality and demeanor of provider, quality of medical care processes, care continuity, quality of the healthcare facilities, and office staff). All seven were cited as reasons for rating physicians as excellent, while four domains (communication, care coordination, interpersonal skills, and barriers to access) drove negative ratings.
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If there is a universal language, its words are human feelings and its sentences are shared experiences. Healthcare, the state of being a patient or caring for someone who is a patient, is surely p…
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Health professionals often feel frustrated or even angry when patients don’t take their medication. And patients may feel exasperated when prescribers seemingly ignore complaints about side effects.
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This randomized clinical trial tested the impact of a website promoting nutrition and physical activity for adolescents (Teen Choice: Food and Fitness). Participants, (408) 12- to 17-year-old adolescents in the Houston area, completed online surveys measuring diet, physical activity, sedentary behavior and diet/physical activity mediators at baseline. After randomization, they were asked to log onto either the intervention or the control condition website weekly for 8 weeks to review web content and set goals to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors. Post-test occurred after 8 weeks. Logistic regression analyses and one-way analyses of covariance were used in the analyses. At post, more intervention group adolescents reported eating three or more daily vegetable servings in the past week compared with the control group (P < 0.05); both groups reported significant increases in physical activity (P < 0.001) and significant decreases in TV watching (P < 0.01). Average log on rate was 75% over the 8 weeks; there was no difference by condition. The website enabled adolescents to improve vegetable intake and daily physical activity, reduce sedentary behavior and had a high log on rate. Future research should identify effective methods for disseminating this website to wider audiences.
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I have just returned from the annual European Rheumatology EULAR 2013 meeting in Madrid. This massive conference was attended by about 14,000 delegates, with over 500 ‘posters’ per day and over 230…
Some excellent suggestions here, particularly in relation to using Evernote
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A feedback app at Birmingham children’s hospital allows patients to send comments directly to the manager in charge
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Interview with Farris K. Timimi, Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media
Why has healthcare, a profession that has roots firmly planted in the power of communication, been so reluctant to consider social networking and social media as forms of engagement? Whenever I visit with providers and organizations that seem hesitant to explore social networking, they usually share a series of reasons for their hesitancy, all of which fall into a broad category that I refer to as “what ifs.” What if we have a patient privacy violation? What if social media access makes our employees less efficient and productive? What if my already extensive clinical time demands prevent me from participating in social media? What if a mistake happens, and it is digitally advertised to a much larger audience? What if poor “phone hygiene” affects clinical care? (This brings to mind the seemingly common image of the intern who spends the bulk of morning rounds on a smartphone.)
Fundamentally, these potential concerns, these “what ifs,” and our resultant reluctance to meet our patients where they are spending the majority of their time, do more than limit our capacity for engagement.
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One of the key things we must do in healthcare social media marketing is to know who our target audience is and tailor our content accordingly. The following infographic categorizes social media followers into 7 different types and suggests ways of reaching them.
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A Facebook project has helped significantly increased organ donor registration rates, according to a report published in the American Journal of Transplantation.
For the study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medical Center — which helped launch the initiative — compared organ donor profile updates with donor registration data from 43 states and the District of Columbia (Lopatto, Bloomberg, 6/18).
The study found that on the day the Facebook feature went live:
More than 57,000 individuals added the organ donor label to their profiles ("Capsules," Kaiser Health News, 6/18); and13,054 individuals registered online to become organ donors, a 21.1-fold increase over the baseline average at that time of 616 registrations (Wiley, Medical News Today, 6/18).
After one year, 30,818 U.S. residents had registered online to be organ donors, about five times more than rates before the initiative, according to the study. The study authors said the increase in organ donation awareness is a step toward resolving a chronic shortage of organs available for transplant ("Capsules," Kaiser Health News, 6/18).
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