Showing posts with label Social Media Pros and Cons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Media Pros and Cons. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Twitter Chat Schedule | Future Business, Robert Swanwick

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Twitter chats are simply pre-organized times to tweet on pre-organized hashtags.  They use applications like twebevent or  TweetChat to c...

ALS Study Falls Short, But Use of Social Media Holds Promise - WSJ.com

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A new clinical trial found that lithium didn't slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, but the findings released Sunday also ...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Caution urged as smartphone technology expands into medicine and health - Philly.com

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The airline passenger was in deep trouble - not breathing, no heart rate - when a fellow passenger, Raina Merchant, then a resident in emer...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Privacy Rights and Asking an Employee to Give You Their Facebook Password

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By Eric B. Meyer A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Maryland Department of Corrections was facing heat from the ACLU for requiring j...
Friday, April 1, 2011

New Health Dialogue (NewHealthDialog) on Twitter

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New Health Dialogue @NewHealthDialog Washington, D.C. Policy blog focusing on issues of cost, coverage, and quality in health ...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Hospitals Missing Opportunities on Facebook: Results of First Ever Study on How Hospitals Use Facebook - MarketWatch

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A new nationwide study by Verasoni AhHa! and Simon Associates Management Consultants of how hospitals across the United States use Facebook...
Monday, March 14, 2011

amednews: Social media the latest tool for health care fraud investigators :: Feb. 28, 2011 ... American Medical News

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As social media sites have grown more popular, so has their use by insurance companies that want to know more about the people they insure....
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Hospital confronts social media uprising over care of dying baby - The Globe and Mail

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One of Canada’s most prestigious medical institutions has made the bold decision to go public with details of a highly emotional tug-of-war...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Opinion: Docs Need to Get with the Internet Program, KevinMD.com

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If you woke up one day with an earache, you could call your doctor's office for help. Or you could do what the majority of patients...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Social Networking - Finding Good Healthcare Information on Social Networking sites

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Social networking can help you learn plenty about all aspects of your health care, from prevention, through symptoms and diagnosis, treatme...

Social Media - How to Use Social Media to Choose a Doctor

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We patients have only a few tools at our disposal to choose the right doctor for us. Most of those tools provide very cut and dried basics ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Diabetes Social Networking Web Sites Vary in Quality: MedlinePlus

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The quality of social networking sites for people with diabetes varies greatly, researchers say, with some providing useful medical informa...
Friday, February 18, 2011

7 Best Practices For Hospitals and Social Media | Hospital Financial and Business News

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Kevin Troutman is a partner at Fisher & Phillips LLP in Houston and serves as the chair of the firm's Healthcare Practice Group. Ad...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Nurses - Nursing Link

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1. Learn About Industry Trends and Breakthroughs Social media is largely about learning. While some of us are leveraging social media as...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

OrganizedWisdom Finds Free Experts Make for SEO Success - NYTimes.com

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With Demand Media currently planning a high-profile IPO and issues being raised about the impact of “content farms” on search results , th...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Nursing students suspended for posting placenta picture on Facebook – - Macleans OnCampus

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A group of nursing students at Johnson County Community College were kicked out of school for posing with a human placenta and posting the...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Judge orders reinstatement for student who posted placenta photo to Facebook - KansasCity.com

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A federal judge today ordered Johnson County Community College to reinstate a nursing student who had been dismissed for posting a picture ...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Internet in Medicine: 2000 vs 2010 « ScienceRoll

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Whenever I talk about using social media in medicine to doctors, they seem to think there are more cons than pros regarding this issue. Wel...