Social media might be a way to improve healthcare. The challenge is to find a metric that will either confirm or dispute this hypothesis
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Are patient “proxy measures” helpful in assessing the quality of care rendered by a healthcare professional?
Patient measures health care effectiveness by making comparisons of what physicians do against what they understand, of what they “experience”. In short, patients uses proxy measures- a reasonable default because often, the complexity of medical science baffles even the best of its practitioners.
Cutting the Noise and Listening to Patients Voice on Social Media
We’re crowdsourcing ideas to help engage more patients in our discussions of health on social media. #HealthXPh wants to hear the “patient’s voice” too.
Disruptive innovations that will potentially change delivery of healthcare in the Philippines
In an archipelagic country like the Philippines and with a healthcare delivery system lagging behind its neighbours, disruptive technologies offers us a new way of looking at problems.
Crowdsourcing disease surveillance using social media: a tool to fight off disease outbreaks?
Given that the Philippines don’t have that many diagnostics centers for disease outbreaks, can social media crowdsourcing help in disease surveillance?