Twitter is about talking – not walking into a room shouting an announcement and walking out again
— Teresa Chinn MBE RN (@AgencyNurse) February 28, 2014
Category: #HCSM
#LCSM Chat 27-Feb-14: What do cancer patients want from their doctors and online support groups?
A not-to-be-missed chat. Great topic!
The focus for the next #LCSM Chat at 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific) on Thursday, February 27, 2014 will be “What do cancer patients want from their doctors and online support groups?” The moderator will be Dr. Jack West.
Online cancer support groups can provide a wealth of information and understanding for cancer patients, caregivers, and family members. Many in online forums find expertise and credibility among others who have traveled down the same road. “Expert patients” in these forums can provide an understanding and hope that even the best doctor can’t offer, because they’re living proof you can understand your treatment options, and your treatment can work. And online groups are available 24/7, for free.
However, different patients seek out different levels of information, both in these forums and with their doctors. Some want to know all the available facts, including survival data in the tables and figures shared among oncologists. Others prefer…
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#HIMSS14: The patient has no clothes
Pat Rich talks sense
Someday, the opening speaker at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting will not say that this is the best year ever for health information technology. But not this year.
“What a fabulous time it is to be working in health IT,” said Scott MacLean, chairman of the board for HIMSS exclaimed as he opened the world’s largest annual meeting on health IT – with an estimated 37,000 delegates and 1200 vendors in attendance.
MacLean is speaking to the converted, and the boosterism rampant at the meeting makes it difficult not to turn a jaundiced, journalistic eye to the proceedings. This meeting is filled to the rafters (or, in the case of the kilometre-long Orange County Convention Center – skylights) with either those who truly believe health IT is going to transform the health care system or those who want to sell something to the former.
Too…
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How Can Research Keep Up With eHealth? Ten Strategies for Increasing the Timeliness and Usefulness of eHealth Research
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eHealth interventions appear and change so quickly that they challenge the way we conduct research. By the time a randomized trial of a new intervention is published, technological improvements and clinical discoveries may make the intervention dated and unappealing. This and the spate of health-related apps and websites may lead consumers, patients, and caregivers to use interventions that lack evidence of efficacy.
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Twitter Empowers Patients to Seek and to Speak Out | e-Patients.net
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The ability to write something meaningful in140 characters, including a shortened URL, is the basis of Twitter. Over 500 million tweets go out every day to
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The New Era of Digital Health
Lots of great ideas for discussion here
Crystal Chin (@eHealthCareers & @_CrystalChin) and Maheisha Ravendra (@MaheishaR) will moderate this week’s #hcsmca focussed on digital health. Here they describe how they define the new era of digital health.
By Crystal Chin and Maheisha Ravendra
Crystal Chin
Maheisha Ravendra
Healthcare is evolving as more processes use and gain insight through technology. Systems such as electronic medical records, picture archiving and communication systems and clinical information systems have been implemented and are now part of the healthcare infrastructure. However, with the arrival of data science, mobile technology, wearable devices, pharmacogenomics and personal health data, a new era of digital health is emerging. These new innovations all aim to achieve better health. But it also means a whole new set of concepts and ideas.
Although there are many ideas of what digital health is, such as the “convergence of the digital and genetics revolutions with health and health care”…
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Use of the Internet for health promotion
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Plenary presentation at the 2013 annual convention of the Philippine Society of Endocrinology & Metabolism
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More People Willing to Share Private Health Information Online
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Recent studies have revealed that more than 90% of people on social networks would be willing to discuss even serious health concerns with doctors over social
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Suicide Prevention “Street Tweeters” from Toronto’s “Real Time Crisis” tonight on SPSM chat.
Twitter is a form of social media originally developed to help people view the “real time” conversations among their friends, or on an identified topic (called a #hashtag). Suicide Prevention Social Media chat uses the #SPSM hashtag to tag and filter our chat content.
Tonight #SPSM guest experts @AnneMarieBatten and @GraffitiBMXCops from Real Time Crisis will be chatting with us at 9pm CST. Real Time Crisis is the brain child of a Toronto Street Nurse, Ms. Anne Marie Batten, and Scott Mills in collaboration with local law enforcement. This organization is using Twitter to prevent specific suicides, in “real time.” You can visit (and like) their Facebook page here: Or read more about how they work here:
Or watch a video about it here:
Ms. Batten writes about herself, “I believe in supporting vulnerable communities by reducing barriers and bridging gaps within our current health care and social…
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5 Minute Social Media Makeovers: Stepka Family Dental
I presented 3 workshops on Social Media for Dentists at Yankee Dental Congress 2014 in Boston, where I met Joanna Stepka, who was at my workshop to learn more about how to use social media for her husband’s dental practice. Like most people in the workshop, she had a smartphone, but, unlike many people there, she was using it to tweet during the workshop. Impressed that she was live-tweeting during the workshop, I looked at the online presence of Stepka Family Dental after the workshop. Here is my 5 minute makeover.
Stepka Family Dental’s Facebook page had a “vanity url”, namely https://www.facebook.com/StepkaFamilyDental. Easy to do, but not all dental 
practices do it. The first time I looked the cover photo was bland but the new one (right), updated 2 days after the workshop, is great and I assumed was inspired by what I taught. The pictures are…
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