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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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“The privacy risks involved in using social media in healthcare can be minimized through innovative staff education, says risk management expert Paul Anderson.
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John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve generally been writing more about the EMR side of EMR and HIPAA lately. For the most part, it seems readers are more interested in EMR and EHR than they are in the details of HIPAA.
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Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT
“Despite a rise in the number of healthcare professionals migrating online to build a following on blogs and on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, dangers persist, as outlined in a recent article published in the British Medical Journal.
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McCartney M. BMJ, 344
Professionalism and social media can be an uneasy mix. In the police force, Freedom of Information data have shown that, in the past four years, two officers have been sacked, seven resigned, and over 150 been disciplined for placing “inappropriate” photographs or comments online. Nurses have been sacked after making comments about patients and colleagues online, posting photographs of themselves exposing their breasts while in uniform, and putting pictures of patients online.
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Derek Spalding, timescolonist.com
“Michelle Ferguson tried to avoid it, but the rapid onslaught of nausea took its toll on her body when she suddenly vomited in the back seat of a school bus last weekend.
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Redstone K. CMAJ, 2012
As many a Canadian doctor has discovered, negotiating the circuitry of electronic health records can be a mind-numbing challenge.
Some, like Ottawa physician Dr. Heath Alsaffar, call it “a colossal headache” that often leaves doctors who take the electronic plunge mired in myriad issues of cost and connectivity (www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3929 and www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3930).
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Chris Foster, Government Health IT
“Much like other advances in health information technology (HIT) such as electronic health records and telemedicine, social media is changing how doctors and patients interact. Social media empowers patients to seek out information, make more informed decisions, and partner with their health care providers on managing their care.
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Bobby Ghaheri, KevinMD
“The physician’s decision to first dive into social media can be stress-inducing. Issues of time management, maintaining professionalism, and determining a return on the personal investment can limit our use of the various platforms.
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Kate Freeman, Mashable
“Health providers have suspected for some time that social media might be an early indicator of an epidemic. Now they have proof.
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Daniela Hirschfeld, SciDev Net
“The informal information source, Twitter, was yielding data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study.
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Chunara R et al, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 86(1)
During infectious disease outbreaks, data collected through health institutions and official reporting structures may not be available for weeks, hindering early epidemiologic assessment. By contrast, data from informal media are typically available in near real-time and could provide earlier estimates of epidemic dynamics. We assessed correlation of volume of cholera-related HealthMap news media reports, Twitter postings, and government cholera cases reported in the first 100 days of the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Don’t assume the entire staff at your organization – or, for that matter, all your contractors – apply common sense when using Facebook. Odds are that at least some of them don’t.
This was recently illustrated by the news that a contract employee at a California hospital posted information about a patient on a Facebook page – just for laughs.
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Bos L. Patient Empowerment: A Two Way Road, 2011
This paper will deal with the patient related aspects of e-Health. The use of computing and networking has become an essential element in recent and future developments in health and care. Devices that lead to self-management, access to electronic records, decision support, social networks and social media are some of the major aspects. The production and availability of data and information will lead to a paradigm shift in the physician-patient relationship based on the addition of their respective experiences.
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Gary Levin, Health Train Express
“Howard J Luks M.D. points out the reasons why physicians should participate in the landscape of social media in his recent post via Summify.
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Edgar Camelo, TICBeat
“La revolución tecnológica que estamos viviendo abarca todos los aspectos de la sociedad, incluidas, por supuesto, la medicina y la salud.
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Dan Buckland, MedGadget
“A paper in the Christmas edition of the Danish Medical Journal attempts to ask whether we can trust our Facebook friends with providing a differential diagnosis. One of the authors, Dr. Peter Hallas, modestly asked that we take a look at his paper, so we jumped at the chance and think he should give himself and his co-authors a lot of credit for studying phenomena that are already occurring.
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Gallant LM et al, Journal of Participatory Medicine, 3
Background and Objective:
The nature of health communication is changing as people increasingly seek health information on the internet. The objective of this study was to investigate how hospital websites utilize a variety of e-health tools; online communication technologies such as social media, video, podcasts, and interactive formats.
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rteston, Buzz e-sante
“Cette nouvelle plateforme Voix des Patients , est très différente de l’ancienne version tant sur le contenu que sur l’aspect graphique avec notamment une nouvelle identité visuelle.
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Gary Levin, Health Train Express
“Imagine this if you will (and this is not imaginary). I am sitting at home quite comfortably on a Google + hangout and suddenly a window appears from a Live newscast in Colombia Mo.
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