Category: health2.0

Martin Trussell
Today Jody Joiner and I presented at the AHLA Hospitals and Health Systems Institute on the use of social media by hospitals and health care providers. We provided an overview of social media use by hospitals and health care providers, discussed the pros/cons of using social media in the health care environment, […]

John Goodman
Today I am giving a presentation with Jud DeLoss on the topic of “PHRs, Health 2.0 and the Impact of Social Media on Health Care” at the American Health Lawyers Association 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
As a part of the presentation we are sharing the slides from the presentation with the […]

jingemi
Chris Hogg does a great job of capturing the metrics of the Twitter discussion that occurred during the recent Health 2.0 Boston conference. Check out his slide show analysis of the Tweet Stream from the conference.
Health 2.0 Tweet Stream Analysis
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As someone who tweets at conferences that I […]

jingemi
The Economist looks in on Health 2.0 in the article, Health 2.0: How far can interactive digital medicine go?
Highlights for me:
Quote by Neil Seeman who thinks Health 2.0 is important “because it reinvents how we identify opinion leaders and exploit disruptive innovation.”
Steve Case, founder of America Online, who likens the current state of […]

jingemi
a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aXjomoqIBUo/Sb0Vz2BAFOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/xAe7iIICJLw/s1600-h/ha.gif” imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aXjomoqIBUo/Sb0Vz2BAFOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/xAe7iIICJLw/s320/ha.gif” style=”cursor: move; width: 172px; height: 63px;” border=”0″ //aThe a href=”http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol28/issue2/”March/April 2009 Issue/a of a href=”http://content.healthaffairs.org/”Health Affairs/a concentrates on the topic of Stimulating Health Information Technology. Although I am not a subscriber to Health Affairs the issue looks to have some great […]

Martin Trussell
a href=”http://ebennett.org/hospitals-that-use-social-networks/”Great post/a listing the U.S. Hospitals using social networking tools like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Check out the a href=”http://ebennett.org/hsnl/”complete list/a of 150 hospitals and a related a href=”http://ebennett.org/hsnl/hsnl-faq/”FAQ about the Hospital Social Networking List/a at a href=”http://ebennett.org/”Found In Cache: Notes from a Hospital Web Manager/a authored by a href=”http://ebennett.org/about/”Ed Bennett/a.br […]

Martin Trussell
Two case studies pointing out additional medical uses for Twitter from Jennifer Texada at a href=”http://jennifersreport.blogspot.com/”How to Go Web 2.0/a.br /br /Her post, a href=”http://jennifersreport.blogspot.com/2008/12/health-20-makes-it-to-twitter.html”Health 2.0 Makes it to Twitter/a, discusses two separate cases. The first involved the use of Twitter by medical professionals seeking real time advice with a diagnosis. […]

John Goodman
Tomorrow I will be speaking on consumer driven health care at the a href=”http://www.wvhfma.org/”West Virginia Chapter Healthcare Financial Management Association’s/a Winter Education Conference in Charleston, West Virginia.br /
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I thought I would post my slides for the presentation titled, iConsumer Driven Health Care: The Impact of Social Media and Health 2.0./i The […]

World Health Care Blog
Last month I had the opportunity to tape a television segment on Health Information Exchange and Health 2.0 for a href=”http://www.qiwv.org/wv/medicare_consumers/lifeline_tv.aspx”Lifeline/a, a weekly 30 minute public television program focusing on health and Medicare information for West Virginians. The segment started running this week and should run through the month of […]

Don Simborg
Over at The Health Care Blog Dr. Kibbee issues Part 2 of his a href=”http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/11/confessions-of.html”Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion/a, subtitled “A Conversation with American Physicians About How to Save Medicine in the Age of Information.” The Part 2 post, a href=”http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/12/confessions-of.html#more”Empowering Health IT for the Connected Medical Home,/a is a must […]