Category: HCSM

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The next time someone tells you that social media as a waste of time, tell them that while the media themselves may seem unnatural at first, the networks they enable may very well be the secret to innovation and our long-term professional success.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Abstract

The purpose of this review paper is to explore the impacts of social media on healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients. This study found that healthcare organizations, clinicians and patients can benefit from the use of social media. For healthcare organizations, social media can be used primarily for community engagement activities such as fundraising, customer service and support, the provision of news and information, patient education, and advertising new services. The study also found that the most widely used social media venues for physicians were online communities where physicians can read news articles, listen to experts, research new medical developments, network, and communicate with colleagues regarding patient issues. Patients can benefit from the use of social media through education, obtaining information, networking, performing research, receiving support, goal setting, and tracking personal progress. Future research should further examine other financial, technological, informational, ethical, legal, and privacy issues surrounding the use of social media in healthcare.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Health IT applications geared toward patient-centered care actually do have a posiHealth IT applications geared toward patient-centered care actually do have a positive impact on patient outcomes, in an assessment of several hundred articles examining their effectiveness by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center. Researchers conducted the review, published this month, on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Farzad Mostashari and colleagues from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, lay out their "Three A’s" strategy to support consumer engagement through e-Health – access, action and attitudes.

 

 

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The simultaneous maturation of patient-centered healthcare, social media and the Internet has created what researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School are calling a "perfect storm" in healthcare with regard to how patients and organizations connect.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The findings:
1. patients use social media for info and for sharing and connecting
2. patient experience would be easier if education and health information exist
3. health information is crucial for Rare Disease
4. patients want openness, transparency and inclusion from pharma