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Winston ER et al, Computers in Human Behavior, 2012
Decreasing revenues and increasing expenses has led many healthcare organizations to adopt newer technological applications in order to address the informational needs of their patients. One such adoption technique is to develop a more robust e-patient environment. Health care organizations may increase their effectiveness in meeting the needs of a growing e-patient population through the implementation of high-quality social networking applications such as Twitter. These applications may help to support and maintain a valuable and informed community.
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6 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): e-patient, Information Management, Online Communities, social-network, Twitter
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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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): Disease Surveillance, Social Media, Tracking, Twitter
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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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Physicians, Social Media, Twitter
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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11 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Haiti | Tag(s): Epidemics, Social Media, Twitter
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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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Haiti | Tag(s): Epidemics, Social Media, Tracking, Twitter
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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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Haiti | Tag(s): Epidemics, Social Media, Twitter
Faye Flam, Philly.com
“As a biologist and computer scientist, Pennsylvania State University’s Marcel Salathe studies the viral spread of information and the spread of real viruses.
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23 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Disease Surveillance, Epidemics, Social Media, Twitter, Vaccine
Angela Haupt, US News
“Thomas Lee’s business cards are stamped with the link to his Facebook page. The orthopedic surgeon actively tweets, checks in regularly on FourSquare, and maintains a GooglePlus profile. And he does it for his patients.
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22 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): facebook, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Media, Twitter
The Economic Times
“Twitter has the potential to become a lifesaver by providing important heath-related information to people during emergencies, a new study has found.
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14 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Social Media, Twitter
Salma Patel, #nhssm
“Over the past six months, I have seen first hand the benefits of using social media (in particular Twitter) to interact, engage and build relationships outside of my own professional circle.
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7 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Media, Twitter
Ben Jones, Bull World Health Organ
“Sari Setiogi was worried. In the wake of the Japanese earthquake back in March 2011, panic about the effects of a possible radiation leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant had caused a number of rumours to spring up on social networking site Twitter.
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2 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Public Health, Social Media, Twitter
e-Health-com News
“Soziale Internet-Netzwerke haben einen starken Einfluss auf die Meinungen über Krankheitsepidemien und die Bereitschaft der Menschen, sich mit Impfstoffen zu schützen. Letztendlich sind sie somit auch ein bestimmender Faktor für die Verbreitung von Krankheiten.
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21 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Social Media, Twitter, Vaccine
Sarah Kessler, Mashable
“When the first cases of swine flu were detected in the spring of 2009, Twitter helped to inflame the panic that spread well ahead of the disease. The idea that anything useful could be mined from the flood of tweets reacting to the nascent threat was widely dismissed.
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19 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Disease Surveillance, Epidemics, Social Media, Tracking, Twitter
Debora MacKenzie, NewScientist
“The northern hemisphere’s flu season will soon be here. If you are getting vaccinated and tweet it, will your followers follow you to the doctor’s surgery – or are they the sort of people who have an appointment booked already?
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18 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Epidemics, Social Media, Twitter
Jordan Calmes, NPR
“Twitter may turn out to be a great tool for tracking epidemics and how people deal with them.
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16 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Epidemics, Tracking, Twitter
Shea Steinberg, EHR Bloggers
“Unless you’ve been living under a very large rock, you know by now that social media is the taking over the world. While some doctors and hospitals use Facebook and Twitter to connect with patients and maybe even EMR vendors (like our social users), one Louisville hospital is taking it one step further — into the operating room.
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6 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): operation room, Social Media, Twitter
Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
“There’s a lot you can read about on Twitter — including, it now appears, the patterns of human moods.
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30 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Behaviour, Mental Health, Research, Social Media, Twitter
Jean DerGurahian, Health IT Pulse
“There is room for Twitter and Facebook in hospitals, as long as such social media tools are used with caution, say information managers.
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13 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): facebook, Hospitals, Privacy, Security, Social Media, Twitter
Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Last week’s East Coast earthquake proved the power of social media to report disasters, as millions took to Twitter and Facebook to report that they felt the earth move under their feet. Hurricane Irene also highlighted the importance of social media and disaster preparedness.
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31 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Disaster, Social Media, Twitter
Neil Mehta, KevinMD
“Social media holds a lot of potential for the health care professionals. Is fear of the medium inappropriately leading to professionals avoiding this “social situation”? Have we created a social media anxiety syndrome?
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23 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Physicians, Social Media, Twitter
