- Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL? – Last week, Facebook announced that it had amassed 500 million users, a formable portion of the global Internet audience. But even as Mark Zuckerberg and company celebrates, others are busy trying to uproot Facebook’s popularity by establishing a set of open standards to share Facebook-like features across the Internet…
- Social Media Up 230% Since 2007 – INFORMATION WEEK – June 28 – Two-thirds of Americans now use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social media sites, up about 230% from the 20% penetration in 2007, and 43% are visiting these sites more than once a day. Multiple visits are up 28% compared with last year, the Simmons New Media study determined. “The rise of social networking tracks closely with that of Facebook. As of April 26, 2010, 46% of the U.S. online adult population reported having visited Facebook in the past 30 days”…
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July 29th, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »
Can Open Source Make Facebook the Next AOL?; Social Media Up 230%
June 29th, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »
Conflicts of Interest Article in CME from Mayo Clinic Oncology Group; Online Community for Thrombycytopenia
- Conflicts of Interest, Authorship, and Disclosures in Industry-Related Scientific Publications — Mayo Clinic Proceedings – We read with great interest the recent article by Hirsch1 and the accompanying editorial and appreciate that a venue for rational discourse has been opened. Recently, we have all witnessed increasing scrutiny and regulation of the relationship we, as clinical educators and investigators, have with our partners in industry and the continuing medical education (CME) providers with whom we work. What has been missing from this important dialogue is a concerted response from those who have worked with the pharmaceutical industry and providers of CME to present the opinion that these interactions are in fact of real value.
- Digital Pharma: Amgen’s online village | InPharm – Amgen has launched an online community for European healthcare professionals, patients and carers affected by autoimmune disease immune thrombycytopenia.
June 8th, 2010 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »
Social Media and the Mobile Internet in Health Messaging
Many thanks to Susannah Fox and her colleagues at Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project for continuing to generate some wonderful research on e-health. The below presentation highlights the key findings of two new reports:
- “Chronic Disease and the Internet”
- “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer”
Both studies provide an in-depth look on the evolving role of social media, the Internet and the empowered patient.
Social media and health for Office of National AIDS Policy
View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
December 9th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »
Social Media and Implications for Health Communication; Internet Use and Self-Rate Health in Older People…
- 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.
- Alliance for CME Presentation: The Emerging Role of Open Source, Web 2.0 Technologies in Continuing Medical Education -
December 6th, 2009 By Jeremy Lundberg No Comments »
All Things Health 2.0 November 23rd through December 4th
- 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
