Category: HCSM

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

There is an age old problem in medicine. How can any physician keep up with the deluge – the absolute avalanche – of literature and information coming out each month?

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

 a look at the facts and figures surrounding both telehealth and mHealth

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Social media’s impact in healthcare continues to rapidly evolve and these voices are the leaders FiereceHealth identifies as helping to break the trail.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

How Social Media Is Changing Health Care

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

According to a Greystone report, two-thirds of surveyed hospitals have not developed a plan on how to use their existing social networking sites and 70 percent of hospitals have less than four people devoted to social networking.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Participating in social media is bound to uncover some weaknesses in your organization. Maybe your admitting staff is consistently disrespectful to patients, or perhaps waiting times are abnormally high due to inefficient workflows. Patients seek this type of information so they can manage their expectations while healthcare organizations relish the opportunity to know what areas need improvement. Negativity can be interpreted as an unfiltered look into your facility and help to more effectively identify areas of improvement that need immediate solutions for the good of everyone.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The context in which patients consume health information has changed dramatically with diffusion of the Internet, advances in telemedicine, and changes in media health coverage. The objective of this study was to provide nationally representative estimates for health-related uses of the Internet, level of trust in health information sources, and preferences for cancer information sources.