Twitter and Microblogging for Public Health
“I told you I’m a fan of Patricia F. Anderson. She just published another great slideshow.”
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 18 October 2008
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Community, Twitter, Weblogs, RSS en Social networking ?
“U ziet ons vaker schrijven over de inzet van nieuwe media in de zorg. We doen dit in navolging van ontwikkelen in “de rest” van de maatschappij waarin de manier van communiceren aan het veranderen is. Korter, sneller, oppervlakkiger. In het laatste schuilt natuurlijk een gevaar, we moeten dus alert blijven op het doorslaan van deze maatschappelijke ontwikkeling daar dit niet alleen een on-line verschijnsel is.”
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Lucien Engelen, Acute Zorgregio Oost, 9 October 2008
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You’re Sick. Now What? Knowledge Is Power.
“Are patients swimming in a sea of health information? Or are they drowning in it?
The rise of the Internet, along with thousands of health-oriented Web sites, medical blogs and even doctor-based television and radio programs, means that today’s patients have more opportunities than ever to take charge of their medical care. Technological advances have vastly increased doctors’ diagnostic tools and treatments, and have exponentially expanded the amount of information on just about every known disease.”
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Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 29 September 2008
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Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers
“Background: Blogs are the major contributors to the large increase of new websites created each year. Most blogs allow readers to leave comments and, in this way, generate both conversation and encourage collaboration. Despite their popularity, however, little is known about blogs or their creators.
Objectives: To contribute to a better understanding of the medical blogosphere by investigating the characteristics of medical bloggers and their blogs, including bloggers’ Internet and blogging habits, their motivations for blogging, and whether or not they follow practices associated with journalism.
Methods: We approached 197 medical bloggers of English-language medical blogs which provided direct contact information, with posts published within the past month. The survey included 37 items designed to evaluate data about Internet and blogging habits, blog characteristics, blogging motivations, and, finally, the demographic data of bloggers.
Pearson’s Chi-Square test was used to assess the significance of an association between 2 categorical variables. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was utilized to reveal the relationship between participants’ ages, as well as the number of maintained blogs, and their motivation for blogging. The Mann-Whitney U test was employed to reveal relationships between practices associated with journalism and participants’ characteristics like gender and pseudonym use.
Results: A total of 80 (42%) of 197 eligible participants responded. The majority of responding bloggers were white (75%), highly educated (71% with a Masters degree or doctorate), male (59%), residents of the United States (72%), between the ages of 30 and 49 (58%), and working in the healthcare industry (67%). Most of them were experienced bloggers, with 23% (18/80) blogging for 4 or more years, 38% (30/80) for 2 or 3 years, 32% (26/80) for about a year, and only 7% (6/80) for 6 months or less. Those who received attention from the news media numbered 66% (53/80). When it comes to best practices associated with journalism, the participants most frequently reported including links to original source of material and spending extra time verifying facts, while rarely seeking permission to post copyrighted material. Bloggers who have published a scientific paper were more likely to quote other people or media than those who have never published such a paper (U= 506.5, n1= 41, n2= 35, P= .016). Those blogging under their real name more often included links to original sources than those writing under a pseudonym (U= 446.5, n1= 58, n2= 19, P= .01). Major motivations for blogging were sharing practical knowledge or skills with others, influencing the way others think, and expressing oneself creatively.
Conclusions: Medical bloggers are highly educated and devoted blog writers, faithful to their sources and readers. Sharing practical knowledge and skills, as well as influencing the way other people think, were major motivations for blogging among our medical bloggers. Medical blogs are frequently picked up by mainstream media; thus, blogs are an important vehicle to influence medical and health policy.”
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Kovic I, Lulic I, Brumini G, J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e28, doi:10.2196/jmir.1118
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Medicine 2.0
“The Medicine 2.0 Congress was held last week in Toronto, Canada. I attended on my way back from the AMEE 2008 conference in Prague.
My role was to chair the session on medical education on day 1 and to present 2 talks on day 2, one on mobile computing and one on online communities.
The event was a great opportunity to catch up with my health informatics colleagues and meet face-to-face with previously only online acquaintances.”
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Chris Paton, Health Informatics Blog, 9 September 2008
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Envision Solutions Insight Report: The Evolving Health Blogosphere
“This report provides the most detailed portrait of the health blogosphere to date. It reveals that millions of U.S. adults are actively writing on health-focused blogs.
In addition, it updates the global survey of health bloggers Envision Solutions and Trusted.MD Network released in 2006. Overall, fewer respondents are blogging anonymously and most believe their peers routinely disclose conflicts of interest.”
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Envision Solutions, September 2008
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New Report: The Evolving Health Blogosphere
“Healthcare blogosphere report updated. Envision Solution and Kelton Research found 13.6 million of US adults to be health bloggers.”
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Hippocrates, Trusted.MD, 8 September 2008
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Experience-based Information: The Role of Web-based Patient Networks in Consumer Health Information Services
“The prevalence of Web-based patient networks creates a substantial need for health information professionals to consider the qualities of such patient-mediated communities. By understanding the social and design characteristics of such communities through online patient community ethnography and comparative analysis of Web information evaluation criteria, health information professionals can better understand how to evaluate these information sources and find service integration points.”
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Susan Scola-Streckenbach, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 216 - 236, DOI: 10.1080/15398280802143657
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From a Medical Blog to an Online Service: A bridge between physicians and e-patients
“I’ve been preparing to write this announcement for months. Scienceroll is almost 2 years old and I thought it’s time to launch my online service. I’ve written hundreds and hundreds of posts about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine, healthcare, medical education and communication. I’m always saying e-patients would change the way medicine is practiced and healthcare is delivered. And physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet their expectations.”
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Bertalan Meskó, ScienceRoll, 24 August 2008
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Blog-based applications and health information: Two case studies that illustrate important questions for Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) research
“Weblogs (blogs), together with podcasts and wikis are part of the larger body of next-generation communication applications dubbed “web 2.0.” Within the specific area of health care, little attention has been devoted to understanding what applications are available to the lay public and how these are being used. In this study, a literature review on blogs and blogging practices was conducted, followed by case study analyses of two separate sites that use blogging tools to help patients and other lay web end-users record health-related experiences. This paper explores the diverse purposes for which blogging applications can be (or are being) used in relation to health and introduces the idea of “health goal-oriented” blogging. The discussion focuses on relevant informatics questions that arise with respect to the use of blogs and makes suggestions for subsequent research.”
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Samantha A. Adams, International Journal of Medical Informatics, doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.06.009
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Contrasting Personal vs. Professional Uses of Social Media: The Case of Healthcare Blogging
“Where is the boundary between personal and professional use of the Internet? What does this mean for healthcare social media?”
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Hippocrates, Trusted MD, 11 August 2008
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Study warns of patient privacy problems with blogs
“The recent explosion of blogs written by medical professionals is creating problems for patient privacy, according to a recent Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, which recommends that professional organizations and medical schools get involved in creating ethical guidelines and standards.”
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Brian Robinson, Government Health IT, 25 July 2008
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Content of Weblogs Written by Health Professionals
“Weblogs, or blogs, are journal-style websites whose authors post entries over time. In the last few years, blogs have contributed to a large increase in publicly available information and dialogue on topics from authors’ personal lives to global politics. Technorati, a Web-tracking service, recently estimated that there are more than 70 million blogs, with an average of 120,000 new blogs being created each day.
Although it is impossible to ascertain the number of these blogs generated by health care providers, a substantial medical blogging community exists.
Scholarly articles on medical blogs have focused solely on the potential benefits of health information blogs. Many physician and nurse blog authors, however, report personal experiences and clinical interactions. These blogs allow physicians and nurses to share their narratives, knowledge and experience with the healthcare world. Blogs can accurately portray the challenges facing our professions. They are also part of the public face of healthcare—health professionals who share private thoughts in public settings risk revealing confidential patient information or otherwise reflecting poorly on the profession. The goal of this study was to evaluate the scope and content of blogs written by health professionals.
Specifically, we aimed to 1) approximate the number and content of blogs that described interactions with patients; 2) determine how often blog content violated patient privacy or confidentiality; 3) evaluate whether blogs conformed to professional norms such as the obligation to reveal conflicts of interest.”
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Tara Lagu, Elinore J. Kaufman, David A. Asch, and Katrina Armstrong, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 2008
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