Social Media

ethics, found on the net, general, JoPM, net-friendly docs, social media

Social media, patients, and physicians: a sticky wicket

Kathleen O'Malley | August 9, 2011

Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still cautiously trying to make sense of social media and how to use [...]

found on the net, key people, social media

What happens when you ask Atul Gawande to join a Twitter discussion of his work?

e-Patient Dave | July 9, 2011

Awesome short post by Twitter buddy AnneMarie Cunningham (Twitter @AMCunningham), a GP in Cardiff, UK. The post starts like this: “On Sunday afternoon I spotted Atul Gawande tweeting whilst watching the Wimbledon final… I thought I would let him know that in a few hours time we would be discussing his paper in the Twitter journal [...]

e-patient stories, Why I joined, Why PM

Meredith Gould: Why Go Public Now About My Fibro?

Kathleen O'Malley | June 16, 2011

Guest blogger Meredith Gould is on Twitter as @meredithgould and @HealthFaith. Over a year ago, I agreed to write about my personal experience with fibromyalgia for a new health and wellness site. The piece wasn’t going to be published for a while and although I was comfy with what I’d written, I was in no [...]

ethics, general, policy issues, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles

Should More Doctors Participate in Social Media?

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | March 5, 2011

I’ve heard this sentiment more than once… “Doctors should participate more in social media. They should be Facebooking and Twittering and Tumblr-ing far more often than they do!” Houston Neal makes the case again over at The Medical Blog, suggesting that because doctors aren’t engaging in social media as much as the ordinary person, they’re [...]

research issues, trends & principles, Why PM

Why is participatory medicine such a tough sell?

Susannah Fox | March 22, 2010

Kevin A. Clauson, Pharm.D. is an associate professor at the College of Pharmacy and adjunct associate professor at the College of Medicine – Biomedical Informatics Program at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He teaches a course on Consumer Health Informatics and Web 2.0 in Healthcare and blogs and conducts research about related topics. [...]

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2010: The Year of Open Streams & Fax Machines

Gilles Frydman | December 12, 2009

I started writing this post while watching a livestream of the LeWeb09 conference in Paris and finished it while watching a livestream of TEDxSV. Open Streams are of many kinds and shapes. They are completely changing how we consume information, news & entertainment. .. It could be a joke and it could be funny! Instead, it [...]

e-pts resources, positive patterns, trends & principles

The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09

e-Patient Dave | October 28, 2009

I wish I could have been at the Reshape2009 conference this month in the Netherlands. The Twitter buzz was stimulating, and the 6 minute opening video caused a lot of buzz. I didn’t get it all because it was in Dutch. Now, thanks to producer Lucien Engelen (@Zorg20, “Health 2.0″), here it is in English. [...]