Wes, MedPage Today
“With the preponderance of optimistic takes on physicians participating (some even suggesting we have an obligation to participate) in various forms of social media through blogging, Twitter-ing, and Facebook-ing, perhaps one of us should take a moment to acknowledge that there are some downsides to this practice for doctors and nurses.
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Meskó B, Dubecz A. Orvosi Hetilap, 148(44)
The importance of the internet and some new generation services of the web (so-called web 2.0) is exponentially growing. As web 2.0 is based on collaboration, feedback and communities, it can ease the work of physicians. The authors give a short overview of the web 2.0 tools created for physicians.
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le monde de la e-santé
“Les blogs apparus dans les années 90, sont aussi très présents dans le domaine de la santé. Michel Legros, dans son étude sur les blogs personnels sur la santé[1], estime que la proportion est de 2 à 3% des blogs personnels traitant de la santé et de la maladie.
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Legros M. Santé Publique, 21(hs2)
Having first emerged in the 1990s, online blogs had developed significantly by 2004, reaching an estimated 30 to 40 million in France. While they are particularly active in literary, technical and political fields, the authors of blogs are also active in the realm of healthcare. The object of this paper is to provide an assessment of roughly 2 to 3 per thousand of those personal blogs which focus on health and illness.
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Kamel Boulos MN et al, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,100(1)
This paper explores Technosocial Predictive Analytics (TPA) and related methods for Web “data mining” where users’ posts and queries are garnered from Social Web (”Web 2.0″) tools such as blogs, micro-blogging and social networking sites to form coherent representations of real-time health events.
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Ves Dimov, Health and Medical News
“Another good discussion point was brought up by an office manager of a pediatric group in Chicago: Do you need a social media policy for your medical practice? http://goo.gl/7APvI – I think you do.
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Dan, docdano.com
“For over a decade I traveled 30 miles south to a rural clinic along I-45 in Fairfield, Texas. There I met one of those physicians that people always think of when they think the word “doctor.”
Dr. John Keller is a community icon.
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Chretien KC et al, JAMA, 305(6)
To the Editor: The existence of social media is transforming the way physicians communicate with the public, bringing both challenges and opportunities for medical professionalism. Indeed, the American Medical Association recently issued a policy statement on professionalism in the use of social media. Medical schools are adopting social media policies.
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Brian Ackland, Ideaworks
“The more I look at the way that information is shared by patients on Facebook and Twitter, and then how it is stored by doctors and nurses, the more I wonder if it isn’t time to challenge the traditional barrier that exists between these two audiences.
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Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“Social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, are indeed complementary with medical blogs. For instance, on KevinMD.com, I use Twitter and Facebook to extend my reach and disseminate the blog’s content. In fact, the discussion often continues on these platforms outside the blog.
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Konovalov S et al, J Med Internet Res, 12(4)
Introduction:
Web logs (“blogs”) have become a popular mechanism for people to express their daily thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Many of these expressions contain health care-related themes, both physical and mental, similar to information discussed during a clinical interview or medical consultation. Thus, some of the information contained in blogs might be important for health care research, especially in mental health where stress-related conditions may be difficult and expensive to diagnose and where early recognition is often key to successful treatment. In the field of biomedical informatics, techniques such as information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) are often used to unlock information contained in free-text notes. These methods might assist the clinical research community to better understand feelings and emotions post deployment and the burden of symptoms of stress among US military service members.
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Phil Baumann, Health Is Social
“Blogging is dead.” I can’t tell you how many times I hear that. According to Ed Bennett’s Hospital Social Network List, fewer than 90 hospitals have blogs. That’s less than 2% of all US hospitals! Meanwhile, over 600 hospitals have Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Mayo Clinic has been taking advantage of social media — including Facebook, Twitter and patient and employee blogs — for several years.
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Jackie Norris, ABC15.com
“By simply typing out 140-character tweets and sending it to the Web, Dr. Krupali Tejura has been able to make terminally ill patients’ wishes come true.
“A doctor using Twitter may sound silly to some people,” says Tejura, an oncologist in Corona, Calif. “But it can and does change the lives of my patients.”
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Rosalía Sierra, Alain Ochoa, Diario Médico
“Se calcula que gira en torno a 300 el número de profesionales del sector sanitario -con una aplastante mayoría de médicos de atención primaria y de hombres, a pesar de la feminización de la medicina- que cada día, cada semana o cada rato que sacan actualizan una bitácora digital donde ponen en común sus opiniones, sus críticas, su día a día y sus anécdotas.
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Koch T et al, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2010
In theory, physicians subscribe to and in their actions personify a set of virtues whose performance demands personal engagement. At the same time, they are instructed in their professional roles to remain emotionally and personally distant from those they are called to treat. The result, the authors argue, is an ethical conflict whose nature is described through an analysis of two narratives drawn from an online blog for young physicians. Confusion over professional responsibilities and personal roles were found to affect physicians’ perceptions of their clinical duties and their social roles.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“I last wrote about Bob Lorsch of MMR Information Systems (right) at SmartPlanet last year. He was helping China automate its medical records.
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Onemedplace
“The Internet is a seemingly infinite repository of health information. While some of the info out there may be spurious, the concept of a healthcare website has definite merit. Online healthcare resources such as encyclopedias and forums can educate consumers, facilitate communication between patients and physicians, and keep providers apprised of health issues that are of interest to the public.
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Aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Era hora de hacer una nueva revisión de nuestra lista de blogs sanitarios activos en español. No hemos eliminado ninguno por el momento ya que todos mantienen su actividad (menos de 6 meses desde su última actualización) y sí hay unas cuantas incorporaciones. Con estas son ya 275 las fuentes de información sanitaria en formato blog de las que disponemos.
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Lindsey Miller, Ragan.com
“Could you carry on a conversation with a scientist, parking attendant, doctor, and cafeteria worker who live and work all around the country? What about 55,000 of them?
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