Health campaigns needs effective social media strategy to mobilize and effect change in a hyperconnected world.
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Strategies and technologies healthcare professionals use for learning
As healthcare professionals, patients inspire us most to continuously learn. When our learning shifts from formal school alone to include many other environments, we must be able to examine and employ strategies and then find appropriate technologies to maximize learning.
Metric Matrix: How should we measure the impact of social media on clinical excellence?
Social media might be a way to improve healthcare. The challenge is to find a metric that will either confirm or dispute this hypothesis
Patient centric healthcare technology, anyone?
As a physician I have my armamentarium of healthcare tech to help ease out the burden of practice, but have none to unburden my patient’s charade. This often bear much on my decision to order (or not) a diagnostic procedure, a referral, a prescription or even follow up. Patient’s rarely comply because, as a matter fact it takes more than just the patient to go though this burden. Not even us physicians. We can cry foul, or technology sucks. But patients, they rarely have..
So patient centric healthcare technology anyone?
Disruptions in Health: Healthcare information technology in a limited resource community
Some of these HITs (EMR, CPOE) have been shown to reduce medical errors by up to 80%, prescription errors by up to 55%. While HIT has the potential to reduce utilization of healthcare, investing in HIT is not cheap so far. The main challenges are investing cost and resources.