Tag: Healthcare social media
Health Social Networking Sites and Inherent Risks to PHI
Many Social Networking Sites Lack Enough Information for Users to Make Privacy-sensitive Decisions In an open perspective article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Dr. Jingquan Li, an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, provides an indepth analysis and discussion on the inherent risks in securing personal health information in health social networking sites [...]
Social Media Saturday
“Who are you? Who, who, who, who? I really wanna know.” Check in Saturday mornings for our round up of the past week’s top tweets, discussions, who to follow and more. Follow the hashtag #smSaturday or weigh in on Linkedin at MU Answers and HIE Answers. Like the songs says…. Tweet that deserved a RT [...]
Social Media “Likes” Healthcare
PwC Report on the Impact of Social Media in Healthcare On a plane trip last week across the country I finally found time to read through PwC’s April report Social media “likes” healthcare, From marketing to social business. Based on a survey of more than 1000 consumers and 124 health care executives the report provides insight into what [...]
Intersection of Social Media and Healthcare
Interview with Howard Luks, MD on Social Media in Healthcare When it comes to physicians who understand the inner workings of engaging patients through social media you don’t have to look much further than Dr. Howard Luks. An Orthopedic Surgeon running two successful New York practices, just one look at his website and you’ll understand [...]
Growing Influence of Social Media on Health IT
Twitter Chat to Focus on HIT Social Media Keith Boone is the Standards expert for GE and author of the popular blog Motorcycle Guy. He has been a guest of ours on MU Live!, most recently joining us to discuss proposed Standards and Interoperability in Stage 2. On this show he predicted there will be a [...]
Mayo Clinic Offers Residency Program in Social Media
Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Residency Mayo Clinic first entered the social media arena in 2005 with podcasting. Since then they’ve grown their YouTube channel to almost 6,000 subscribers and a whopping 7 million video views. Mayo Twitter and Facebook followers number almost a half million combined. A formidable name in health care before the [...]
Healthcare Social Media and the Rise of Royalty
Healthcare Social Media Spread a Little Thin This blog post might be hazardous to your standing in the kingdom of health care social media royalty. Pink Floyd said it best in 1979 and it has never been said better. Is Anybody Out There? The rise of social media has been fueled by software applications that [...]
Providers working towards HIE and interoperability face the challenge of bringing connectivity to scale to take advantage of the data being generated by EHR adoption. This paper seeks to demonstrate that connectivity at scale can be accomplished. 
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