- Internet Use and Self-Rated Health Among Older People: A National Survey | Gracia | Journal of Medical Internet Research – Older people are among the segments of the population for which the digital divide is most persistent and are considered to be at risk of losing out on the potential benefits that the information society can provide to their quality of life. Little attention has been paid, however, to relationships between Internet use and actual indicators of health among older people.
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between Internet use and self-rated health among older people and determine whether this association holds independently of socioeconomic position. - Disparities by Race and Ethnicity in Cancer Survivor Stories Available on the Web | Eddens | Journal of Medical Internet Research – The rapid growth of eHealth could have the unintended effect of deepening health disparities between population subgroups. Most concerns to date have focused on population differences in access to technology, but differences may also exist in the appropriateness of online health content for diverse populations.
- Social Media Use in the United States: Implications for Health Communication | Chou | Journal of Medical Internet Research – The purpose of the study is to identify the sociodemographic and health-related factors associated with current adult social media users in the United States.
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Social Media and Implications for Health Communication; Internet Use and Self-Rate Health in Older People…
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All Things Health 2.0 November 23rd through December 4th
Sunday, December 6th, 2009- The FDA, Big Pharma, and Social Media: What’s the Right Rx? – Conversation Starter – HarvardBusiness.org – Last week the FDA held a hearing to begin a dialogue with the American public on the question of what level of online engagement is acceptable for healthcare companies to have with their customers. In other words, should the FDA make sure Merck’s tweets are accurate?
- Six Social Media Trends for 2010 – HarvardBusiness.org – Some interesting and reasonable insights into what lies ahead in 2010 for social media. I would certainly agree that the continued evolution in mobile apps will be transformative and that every organization that uses social media for communication and marketing should have internal policies regulating how these tools (and associated risks) will be managed. Of particular interest is the statistic that 70% of companies block access to popular social networking sites…
- LinkedIn Finally Opens Platform; TweetDeck to Launch LinkedIn Support – LinkedIn finally has opened its platform to allow 3rd party app integration and TweetDeck FINALLY supports status updates to LinkedIn.com
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Whitehouse.gov uses Drupal CMS; MedBiq Virtual Patient Released; and Social Media and Client Touchpoints
Monday, November 23rd, 2009- Whitehouse.gov re-launches on Drupal and engages the Drupal community at DC users meeting | drupal.org – Earlier this month, the Executive Office of the President of the United States of America relaunched their website, Whitehouse.gov, using Drupal. This week three members of the White House new media team presented at the Washington, DC Drupal users group.
- Specifications for MedBiquitous Virtual Patient Released! – Virtual Patients are interactive computer programs that simulate real life clinical scenarios for educational purposes. The MedBiquitous Virtual Patient specification enables the exchange of virtual patients across systems and institutions.
- Social Technology Impacts Every Customer Touchpoint « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing – Social Technologies are a Horizontal –Not A Vertical Approach
It continues to amaze the market that such simple social technologies can impact the entire organization. In fact, social technologies, at the core, allow people to connect to each other without a middle person in the way.
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#BeatCancer Sets Record; Why Health IT Standards Matter, and Design Boo, Boos on GOP.com
Monday, November 16th, 2009- #BeatCancer Sets a Guinness World Record For Most Widespread Social Network Message in 24 Hours – EVERYWHERE – pitchengine.com – EVERYWHERE, a Social Media Marketing and Content Development firm based in Atlanta, GA set a record October 16-17th for the most widespread social network message in 24 hours. According to Radian6, the official online monitoring company, the phrase #BeatCancer set the record with 209,771 mentions on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts.
- Why Standards Matter 2: Health IT Enters a New Era of Regulatory Control – The recent history of electronic medical records in ambulatory care, or what we now call EHR (electronic health record) technology, can be divided roughly into three phases…
- GOP.com Fail, Now With Extra Failsauce | Design & Innovation | Fast Company – Politics aside, the recent relaunch of GOP.com illustrates “What not to do” when re-designing a major organization’s Website and brand, such as posting the site’s administrative passwords on the homepage.
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All Things Health 2.0
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009- Social Media Boosts Search Ad Clicks – Consumers exposed to social media from specific brands or organizations are more likely to click-thru to paid search ads for that organization. This has tremendous implications for healthcare organizations who are looking to raise visibility, outreach, and membership.
- “To Friend or Not to Friend?” Healthcare Practice in the Age of Social Media -
- Social Media: Disruptive Force in Medicine -
- CDC H1N1 Seminar On SecondLife – Watch how the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are using Second Life to educate the public on H1N1. Seminar is conducted by Dr. Jay Bernhardt and others.
- NEJM — Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook -
- Social technology growth marches on in 2009, led by social network sites – The headline: in 2009, more than four out of five online Americans are active in either creating, participating in, or reading some form of social content at least once a month.
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