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Five Models of Patient Engagement Demonstrate Value
Digital Health Care Check-Up (Infographic)
Why blocking social media is not the answer
The Future Of Health 2014 Report
In collaboration with Boehringer Ingleheim, PSFK Labs has published their latest Future of Health report.
This report examines 13 trends that fit within four larger themes – Behavioral Nudge, Empowered Patient, Orchestrated Care and Enhanced Treatments – with the goal of highlighting how consumer technologies, data analytics and information systems are changing the way healthcare is delivered both from a patient and physician perspective.
Twitter for Social Care
#palliativecare Social Media: It’s all in a hashtag! #hpm? #hpmglobal?
I remember my first encounters with twitter! I was struggling to find the value, the return on investment!
My good friend, Suresh Kumar, kept telling me, “It’s all about the hashtag!”
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Nothing happened…… but now I get it. A slow learner!
Yes I have worked out some of the comings and goings, the tricks of the trade of twitter. I don’t follow my home stream. I follow hashtags (pound symbol) and lists.
And now very Monday for over a year, I have been getting up bright and early to participate in a tweet chat addressing global Hospice and Palliative Care, #Hpmglobal! Monday morning in the USA was chosen because the rest of the world was awake from the midwest to Australia! OK, New Zealand and California missed out, but that was a small sacrifice. (Sorry Holly!)
Why #Hpmglobal? This was based on the highly successful hashtag and tweet…
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Social Media And The Evolution Of Medical Professionalism
Social Media and mHealth: Destinated to Be Together
I recently read a “White Paper ” prepared by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) about Social Media in the health sector.
While I was reading, I kept thinking how interconnected everything is in this new digital reality.
The truth is that the connection is there by default, we, the users, are the ones who decide how and when to interconnect.
Healthcare organizations, hospitals, primary care centers, diagnostic centers, etc. . . are entering this new reality slowly .
These organizations are beginning to understand the potential of Social Media and how they can be more connected with their users, because they can share useful information for patients to be more autonomous in managing their health care needs, especially for those suffering from chronic disease.
This “White Paper ” explains numerous examples that have made me think about the true size and capacity that…
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Raising the Bar on Medical Excellence: The Power of Crowdsourcing
Active Sermo community member, Dr. Linda Girgis, M.D., a family practitioner in New Jersey has discovered the power of crowdsourcing to help improve patient care and outcomes. ~~
As my last patient leaves the office for the day I marvel at all the patients coming in with new, wearable technologies pinned, wrapped and snapped onto their bodies. It is an entirely new stream of data, all this body tracking, and it will just be added to the stream of information already coming at me daily. I am bombarded by emails of new guidelines and mandates that seem to change from one week to the next.
Many doctors feel isolated and sometimes overwhelmed from it all. But I’m not one of them I have help and support online from my fellow physicians in the form of clinical crowdsourcing.
What exactly is crowdsourcing and how does it help physicians like me?
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