Social Media

Unlocking Medical Information

When Baptist Health of Northeast Florida started planning its move to a paperless healthcare environment, management from the CEO on down were clear on one thing: Unhindered access to digital information would be critical. Today, Intel® technology-based mobile point of care (MPOC) solutions are enabling new ways to work and deliver care at two of Baptist Health’s community hospitals, and the remaining three are on track for conversion by early 2008.

The results are pervasive. “There is no aspect of clinical practice and no corner of the clinical care environment that hasn’t been impacted and improved by having mobile, simultaneous access to digital health information,” says Keith Stein, MD, chief medical officer at Baptist Health.

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  • June 29, 2008
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Social Networking: Ignore at Your Peril

When I started this blog, I was sitting in the surgery waiting room at a small community hospital. Not far away from me were three people waiting for a loved one. The youngest person in the group was probably in her 50s and the other two were in their 70s or 80s. The youngest one was talking about a mutual friend who recently had surgery and saying that she had heard that the friend was doing well. Did she get a phone call?  No. An email? No. She read it on Facebook! 

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  • April 20, 2010

Twitter Study Addresses Need for Monitoring Health Info Dissemination

Twitter has the potential to spread misinformation about health and medicine, according to a new study that examines Twitter updates concerning antibiotics.

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  • March 31, 2010

Chronic Disease Patients with Web Access Take to Social Media

People with chronic diseases are less likely than others to have Internet access, but those who do are more likely to blog or engage in online discussions about health problems, according to a new report.

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  • March 25, 2010

Poll: Twitter to be Essential Communications Tool for Docs

Fifty-nine percent of respondents to a poll conducted by Case Western University in Cleveland believe that Twitter will become an integral part of the way doctors communicate with patients and other medical professionals.

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  • March 17, 2010

WebMD Rolls Out Social Media Platform

WebMD Health Corp. is set to launch of WebMD Health Exchange, a health social networking platform. The new platform will allow consumers to connect with health experts and other WebMD members to exchange  experiences, discuss personal challenges, and receive direct answers and support, according to WebMD.

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  • March 9, 2010

Monster: Social Media Changing the Recruitment Landscape

Newfangled social media and evolving business models have completely changed job recruitment, according to Dan DeMaioNewton, director of strategy and business development at Monster Worldwide. Getting the best healthcare IT talent in the 21st century will force employers to adapt to a completely new talent landscape.

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  • March 3, 2010

UCLA, Health Net Target Teens with Social Networking Site

The UCLA School of Public Health is collaborating with California-based health insurer Health Net to develop a new social networking Web site targeting adolescents enrolled in Medi-Cal or Healthy Families.

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  • February 15, 2010

Start-up Sees Opportunity in Connecting Info Consumers, Docs Via Text

A San Francisco-based start-up firm has begun marketing the opportunity to ask a question of a group of doctors via text message.

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  • February 4, 2010

Text Message Campaign to Boost Maternity Health

U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra kicked off a new text message campaign today designed to deliver health information to pregnant women.

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