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For starters, it’s making her job easier.
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Healthcare Social Media Tips
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You sit down to write your Facebook post and twitter line… Okay, this is harder than we thought. Thankfully, the CDC has published a guide to writing for social media, i.e. Facebook and Twitter.
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Many Doctors Don’t Take Social Media Beyond Marketing — InformationWeek
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U.S. healthcare providers should learn from their overseas colleagues who use social networking to improve care management, engage patients, and communicate with other doctors, CSC report finds.
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Survey: Attitudes on Social Media in Healthcare Communication (2012)
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There has been a lot of debate over the use of social media in healthcare. As with any discussion, the more facts we have the more informed decisions we can make.
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Patients trust doctors but consult the Internet
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Patients look up their illnesses online to become better informed and prepared to play an active role in their care — not because they mistrust their doctors, a new study suggests.
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The Essential Guide To Twitter (Infographic)
Did you know that 11 new Twitter accounts are created every second? That 175m tweets are generated every day and 69pc of Twitter users determine who to follow based on friends’ suggestions
These stats and more, including the busiest times on Twitter, and what makes Twitter users retweet, are contained in the following infographic by Infographic Labs published on Visual.ly.
Doctors make virtual house calls via social media
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Social media is now playing a more important role in the medical world, as some doctors use the Internet to make house calls —at least virtually.
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Some numbers don’t matter, some numbers do: the #pharma100
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Henry Gazay and myself have never met in real life, although we have had a couple of near misses, most recently at this year’s EphMRA (PDF) meeting in Paris last month. We have, however, been…
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Three Keys to Clearing Two Social Media Hurdles | Mayo Clinic Center For Social Media
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Very interesting to read the personal account of a social media savvy medic!
In the very early part of January I made the decision to start blogging. Little did I know what was in store for me when I did. Even though I’ve had my own “personal” Facebook account since 2008, it was not until January that I began to experience the “intersection” of Healthcare and Social Media.
With that in mind, here are a few of the things I’ve learned in my first 6 months as a medical professional in Social Media:
- Getting involved in Social Media means starting small: Remember that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” How did I start? Quite simply by writing a blog post about what I thought the blog would be about. Although the focus and intent of the blog has changed somewhat, my experience grew out of that first simple piece.
- It is easy…
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