Health Care Social Media

Twitter’s role in NHS reforms debate analysed

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Editor

See on Scoop.it – Health Care Social Media Monitor

Twitter provided an important forum for quick and open discussion about NHS reforms, say researchers at Imperial College London.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The network allowed “conversations across barriers of hierarchy and profession” and “may have fostered discussion and collaboration between groups that rarely talk”, according to a study looking at over 120,000 tweets about the Health and Social Care Bill which was recently passed into law in England.

See on www3.imperial.ac.uk

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Psoriasis patients flock to social media for practical information

Posted on March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Editor

About eight in 10 psoriasis patients who use health care social networks say they do so primarily to learn how others manage their disease, and get practical tips and advice they couldn’t find elsewhere, according to a survey conducted by the National Psoriasis Foundation, Manhattan Research and Inspire, a company that builds and manages online patient communities.

The millions of people with psoriasis, including the one million visitors to Talk Psoriasis in 2012, are not alone in their use of social media for health. A 2011 Pew Research Center study found that one in four Internet users living with a chronic ailment have gone online to find others with similar health concerns.

See on www.biotech-now.org

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The Value of HIT- Improving Quality through Point of Care Alerts

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Editor

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Real Patient-Centeredness Means Sharing Power

Posted on March 19, 2013March 20, 2013 by Editor

The most accurate measure of “patient-centered” care, however, lies not in intentions but implementation

The old culture will give way to a new, Information Age culture that will bolster the “moral and cognitive bases” of medical professionalism by anchoring them, finally, in genuine power sharing and equal partnership.

See on healthworkscollective.com

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Online feedback: we can learn more by thinking about systems than individuals.

Posted on March 19, 2013March 20, 2013 by Editor

I’m sharing this story as it shows how discussing a topic on Twitter can give us an opportunity to consider alternative perspectives and to learn from each other.

Interesting storify by AnneMarie Cunningham on how we can learn more by thinking about systems than individuals

See on storify.com

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Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research

Posted on March 18, 2013March 20, 2013 by Editor

There is a growing concern that ethical oversight risks undermining the credibility of participant-led research, fails to protect the participants and I fear that it may lead to a backlash of over-regulation in the future. This study addresses these issues.

See on www.plosmedicine.org