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How to Use Technology & Social Media for Your Health

This is Part 1 in a 2-Part Episode about Technology and Health Care Social Media. By analyzing Lists and citing Specific Examples of what is currently available, the result is the formation of a Health [+]

Maternal and Child Health Information and Technology Social Solutions

Allan Stamm, CEO of Go Beyond MCH, explains how he and his team apply the theory of "social networks" to effectively and efficiently create maternal, child and family health programs.   [+]

Patients Seek Moral And Medical Support Online

NPR lays states that many patients are seeking more and more support online.  This is not a surprising trend for most of us, but I think this still feels like alien territory for many providers. After the diagnosis, [+]

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn @healthythinker at #HIMSS 2011 Social Media Center

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn presenting at the Social Media Center at the HIMSS 2011 conference in Orlando, FL. [+]

How Social Media is Booming at HIMSS 2011

Perficient Interviews HIMSS 2011 Social Media Center Managers, Cesar Torres and Cari McLean of HIMSS, to talk about this year's social media trends at the conference, Twitter, hash tags, and tips for getting started in [+]

Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media launches Health Network Site

The Social Media Health Network is comprised of organizations committed to discovering ways social media tools can be harnessed to improve health care, promote health and fight disease. The network site is a [+]

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Web Initiatives, 1996-2011

In collaboration with the Hospital Marketing Department, web sites for NewYork-Presbyterian were created by the in-house ITS Web & Multimedia team (under the leadership of Virgil Wong from 1996-2011). This five minute [+]

LinkedIn Wireless Health Group: Toward an mHealth and Wireless Health Consumer Movement

LinkedIn has a couple of excellent groups for those of us in the Health Information Technology field.   Take a look at the "now open" Wireless Health Group.   Find the Wireless Health group on LinkedIn Dear Wireless [+]

Blogs, Social Media, and SEO: Oh My! Updating Your Marketing Strategy

How are you marketing you clinical practice?  Nuesoft has a to the point podcast to discuss your clinical social media strategies. Learn how to integrate these new strategies into your current marketing plan [+]

Outpatient Care in USA, And the Value of Social Media

There is no doubt about it whatsoever that no matter from what perspective you may look at it, Social media is very viral. Twitter and Face Book have changed people’s lives enormously, in more ways [+]

The Use of E-Health for Care Delivery

E-health care is a noble concept crated for the online health care of people. Information technology (IT) will be one of the most promising upcoming departments in the health services sector. This [+]

Nearly 1,300 Healthcare Professionals have listed their social media connections

HealthTechnica.com has been working diligently to create a list of Healthcare Professional's Social Media contacts. This list is provided for free for anyone that is attempting to connect with others in the Healthcare field. We [+]

Social Media, Revolutionizing Healthcare Industry in the 21st century

Social media is revolutionizing the way people approach health care.  Social media tools are finally making head-way into the realm of medical care. Compared to five years ago, it is now much [+]

Please help me decide! Which format should we use for the Health Care Social Media Directory?

We have today's table format, or a new Wiki format. Which format is your preference?  Please vote! [poll id="13"] Thank you, [+]

The time is right to use Twitter for Primary Care

We all take pride in establishing ourselves as citizens of the modern 21st century world. The world has definitely become a smaller place with increasing methods of communication, and more importantly with the [+]

Health Connections #KSMQ Interview with Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Director @LeeAase

On this episode of Health Connections host Shawn Riley interviews Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Director Lee Aase.  Social Media is the most redefining tool of human communication since Gutenberg's printing press.  Mayo Clinic [+]

It is a Management Issue SILLY! Blocking social media is pointless.

I just saw an article on the Running A Hospital blog that reminds me of a constant battle I keep fighting. I have talked with numerous health care CIO and CMIO types across the planet (mostly [+]

Social Media has spoken: I am too fat!!

Recently I started my experiment in social media weight loss.  So far, I have had 31 Tweets, 4 Facebooks, and 6 blog posts on the blog page. The overall feedback has been positive and constructive.  It [+]

Mayo Clinic creates Center for Social Media

Mayo Clinic has announced the creation of a Center for Social Media to accelerate application of social media tools throughout Mayo Clinic and spur broader and deeper engagement in social media by hospitals, medical professionals [+]

My social media experiment in Weight Loss

The following details my social media experiment to lose weight. PROBLEM:  I am too fat. HYPOTHESIS:  I can lose weight via a combination of E-Health home monitoring technology and positive and routine input from my social media [+]

I love social media top 20 lists!

A great new resource has been added to the Internet for medical related social media. Social media could revolutionize the healthcare industry in a number of ways:  healthcare recruitment, hospital marketing, patient/provider communication, public health [+]

Please help me in my social media experiment to lose weight

I have decided it is time to lose some weight. After the last few months of seeing my fat face on TV (and learning more about the risks) I have decided that I need to [+]

The power of social media for the e-Patient

The field of healthcare has undergone drastic changes with the introduction of internet and its other related concepts. It has given rise to the internet savvy patient who is now able to get [+]

How can Twitter help me lose weight?

I have a crazy idea. I want to figure out a way to lose weight via Twitter. Please help me form this idea with your suggestions. Just submit your thoughts on how [+]

Health Connections RAW Social Media and Health Care

This week's Health Connections (on PBS affiliate KSMQ) is a little bit different than our usual format.  We connected a few national leaders in the Health Care Social Media world via a webcast. The webcast [+]
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