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Health Progress – Social Media: new tools boost marketing, education and...
The November issue of the Catholic Health Association’s Health Progress Magazine includes an article on social media and healthcare. Social Media: New tools boost marketing, education, community, by...
View ArticleIts not the platform (subtitled: a note to self)
So, let me get this out in the open. I’m not a social media advocate. I’m not a social media guru, expert, thought leader, or zealot. I am not pro-twitter. I’m not really that into Facebook (please...
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Elsewhere: Bar or Hospital – it’s people. You have to get to know people....
In my growing elsewhere series, I’ve been highlighting content from other sources online. You know, curating, as the hip social media types say. Last week, the LA Times reported that ‘hospitals are...
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Elsewhere: Accountable for care, employers supporting healthy food choices
Elsewhere: Remember me? Yeah, me either. This whole graduate school thing is hard – who knew!?! Elsewhere is my series of posts highlighting content from sources I find interesting, inspiring and...
View ArticleMeaningful Use guidelines for Social Media in Healthcare
I had the privilege recently of being asked to write a short reflection on the use of social media in healthcare. I suggested many of us are moving from our freshman year – getting familiar with...
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which way did he go – healthcare, meet the internet
subtitled: foreseeing a day when we will shop for and buy medical services without leaving the house. Google - (n.) first stop on the information superhighway. “I went to google to find the answer”...
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Apple iBooks, the future of patient education and shared decision aids
This week, Apple released their latest disruptive innovation, iBooks 2 and iBooks Author. iBooks 2 is a free update to the iBooks app for iPads. iBooks Author is a free mac desktop application which...
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Together, we can make it better
There’s a former patient outside who needs to see you I’m on a call with my boss when Carol, one of our patient access team members, slips the note onto the desk I’m borrowing. My office is 12 miles...
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what about employee-centered care?
Yesterday I was lucky enough to hear Chip Conley speak to an intimate group at Experia Health’s Patient Experience Round Table. Conley shared an anecdote about meeting the then CEO of Southwest...
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Patient Designed Care or Doctors 2.0 & You redux
NOTE: This post is intended as a companion post to the session recap from Doctors 2.0 & You here. I recently published a recap of Doctors 2.0 2013. I’m no Bob Woodward, but I tried to take a...
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When Giants Stumble
When giants stumble Local Cleveland channel News 5 reporter Cassandra Nist posted today: The Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday morning that they will be cutting $330 million from their 2014 budget....
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The one where I get all soapboxy about the term Obamacare
Dear Friends, Pundits, and Politicians, Can we please stop calling health reform Obamacare? Opponents began calling the health reform law and its associated components Obamacare as a way to both...
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Evernote Is My EMR And Its Better Than The Rest
Spoiler alert: I’m not dying and there doesn’t appear to be anything major wrong with me. I know, you hate spoilers. But I thought I’d get that one out of there way. It makes the rest of this...
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