Tweets

e-patient stories

ER tweet: “If my husband dies, I’m going to go [eff]ing ballistic”

Jon Lebkowsky | February 1, 2010

When Benn Rosales had a heart attack in December, his wife Lani, a very active member of the Twitterati, tweeted throughout the experience. Afterward she thought to compile those tweets as a record of Benn’s e-patient experience: “this hospital is understaffed and we’re being sh*t on because of it. if my husband dies i’m going [...]

policy issues, positive patterns

Social Media’s Promise for Public Health

Susannah Fox | August 18, 2009

Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense, once again, of a tribal meeting, but this one had the urgency of war council. The enemy [...]

pt/doc co-care

Participatory Medicine: Blending Traditional Medicine with “Health 2.0″

Charlie Smith | June 16, 2009

Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a [...]