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  • Jan 4, 2014 #HealthXPh Tweet Chat and Hangout on Air Topic Responses

    It was a happy day of surprises for the #HealthXPh community as it officially launched the tweet chat and Google Hangout as platforms for health collaboration. For a community less than a month old, #HealthXPh’s tweet chat’s upsurge of activity (we hit 560+ impressions!) delighted us to no end. Big thanks to our friends and colleagues at #hcldr and the Filipino physicians for supporting the launching of tweet chat.

    The live tweet chat started on time while a hangout (instead of the scheduled Hangout on Air) started some 45 minutes after because of technical difficulties. Once the conversations on hangout rolled however, it snowballed into one live, highly interactive discussion on emerging technologies. We actually went into overtime by some 30minutes or so!

    Since we’re utilizing all medium as a platform for collaboration,  I’m answering the questions/topics in a blog post, here in my blog.

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    T1. What is #HealhXPh for core collaborators?[/box]

    HealthXPh is an enabling platform of collaboration for all the healthcare stakeholders -physicians, patients, healthcare institutions, academe and policy makers in the Philippines. It will engage all of these stakeholders to take a more active role in owning issues that affect their health. It aims to give stakeholders a new tool to increase reach beyond what mainstream media can in the discussions about health.

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    T2. What emerging technologies do you find important and relevant in healthcare?[/box]

    The mobile sms because of its reach and widespread use in the Philippines is still on top of these emerging technologies. With adaptation and maximization of its use to further healthcare programs and discussions is of great potential for an archipelagic country like the Philippines. I currently use sms to remind some of my distantly located patients of their follow -up schedule and specialist referrals.

    Social media also plays an important role for me in my clinical practice. This is mainly for patient education and collaboration with fellow physicians. I get queries from potential patients on facebook, twitter and sometimes Google+. All my social media interactions are aimed at encouraging patients to see a physician personally for their health questions and concerns.  While facebook and twitter may have the farthest reach,  I’m particularly interested with Google+ and all the app services attached to it. It’s potential as a platform for use to health is enormous. Most of these services, is free. Of course, blogging is an effective social media platform to further healthcare discussions and raise awareness. I’ve been blogging since 2006 and that spurred my interest into social media as a platform for collaboration in health!

    I do not consider email as an emerging technology nowadays but for the past decade, it has been a great tool for me in health. Research, training, discussions, updates, and lately to communicate with patients has all been quite a success.

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    T3 What do you think are the obstacles to the use of emerging technologies in healthcare?[/box]

    Many healthcare stakeholders in the Philippines adapt slowly to emerging technologies when it comes to health. Technical knowhow seem to be an apparent stumbling block. However, if you observe the use of emerging technologies in other segments of our society- business, entertainment and politics, this stumbling block seem negligible. Socially this is can be tied up to a bigger, more fundamental reality to Filipino’s priorities. Health and all other services attached to it, remains low on our priority scale. This is the behavior we wanted to change. With social media as a platform, #HealthXPh could hopefully effect a positive behavioral change to all stakeholders for a collaboration on health.

    Closing Thought (CT): What’s one thing you’ve learned in todays discussion that you can take to your place of influence to help a patient or colleague tomorrow?

    Foremost in my intention is to enlighten interested colleagues and patients regarding social media use in healthcare. Enlighten primarily mean allaying fears of physicians regarding social media usage and issues. The other is to come up with simpler “1-2-3  how to steps” for adapting to some social media tools they can use.

    Thanks to all those who joined and supported #HealthXPh tweetchat and Hangout on Air launch. See you again next week!

    [box style=”green info shadow” ]#HealthXPh tweet chat and Google Hangout on Air happens every Saturday 10 am Manila time (UTC +8 hours). Join the #HealthXPh community on Google Plus, facebook group, like our FB page and on twitter discussions using #HealthXPh hashtag. Subscribe to the HealthXPh blog (www.healthxph.net)  for more updates on email  and your RSS feeds.[/box]

  • January 4, 2014 #HealthXPh Hangout on Air Launching- Your most relevant emerging technology in healthcare

    On Saturday January 4, 2014 10:00 AM Philippine Standard Time, #HealthXPh will be formally launched live on Google+ Hangout on Air (HOA). Core collaborators discussed the framework for #HealthXPh  in the last Hangout on Air. In summary;

    HealthXPh is a platform for healthcare stakeholders – physicians, patients, healthcare institutions, academe and policy makers, to discuss emerging technologies in health as it impacts the Philippine health landscape.

    #HealthXPh Hangout on Air will be a regular Saturday event for the HealthXPh community. #HealthXPh’s format is basically similar to #HCLDR chats, thanks to our colleagues Lisa Fields (@PracticalWisdom) and Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) at Healthcare Leadership Blog.  Topics and a corresponding speaker or panel of speakers will be assigned to each hangout sessions.  Each hangout sessions will also have a preassigned moderator.

    Participants are encouraged to join the discussions and will be given time to speak or ask questions during interactive sessions. Questions maybe entertained thru Google chat ( which is just beside your Google+ hangout window) twitter using hashtag #HealthXPh or tru our FB group and FB page during the live session.

    The topics for this Saturday’s HOA are:

    • T1 Panel: What is #HealthXPh from the core collaborators?
    • T2 Open Mike: What emerging technologies do you find important and relevant in healthcare?
    • T3 Open Mike: What do you think are the obstacles to the use of emerging technologies in healthcare?
    • Closing Thought (CT): What’s one thing you’ve learned in todays discussion that you can take to your place of influence to help a patient or colleague tomorrow?

    Dr. Remo-tito Aguilar will be the moderator for this HOA.

    Here’s some very good articles you can get ideas for discussion along the Philippine healthcare context.

    1. Let’s start a grassroots physician social media movement. Wes Fisher MD. on KevinMD.com
    2. Seven Effective Ways to Engage on Twitter (shared by @endocrine_witch)
    3. 7 Social media blunders to avoid in 2014 (shared by @cebumd @endocrine_witch)

    Photo Credit to Aaron Guiterman at www.ddadvocacy.com

  • Framework for #HealthXPh on its first Hang Out on Air

    HealthXPh core collaborators Drs. Iris Isip-Tan (@endocrine_witch), Remo Aguilar (@bonedoc), Gia Sison (@giasison), Narciso Tapia (@cebumd)  went on Google+Hangout On Air last Saturday December 28, 2013 at 10AM PST to discuss the framework for #HealthXPh. Here’s what we’ve come up, so far.

    • #HealthXPh is a platform for patient and physician engagement and /or collaboration.
    • Discussions on #HealthXPh will be on the context of emerging technologies in healthcare and social media as it affects the Philippine health scene.
    • #HealthXPh will primarily engage physicians and patients in the Philippines as well as Filipinos abroad. It will however push for a global engagement in the fields of healthcare and social media in the future.
    • While #HealthXPh is the platform, it will  collaborate and engage physicians and patients  from all avenues of social media (twitter,FB, Google+,blogs, etc.) to a healthy discussion on healthcare and social media.

    On #HealthXPh Google Hang Out on Air:

    • Regular #HealthXPh Google+ Hangout On Air (HOA) will be every Saturday 10:00 AM Philippine Standard Time.
    • A #HealthXPh topic will be assigned every HOA and its announcement should be at a minimum of 3days prior to HOA.
    • An expert or panel of experts will also be assigned every HOA and may come from either the physicians or patients on HealthXPh.
    • A moderator will also be assigned each HOA. The moderator will be the “lead” in topic assignment, pre HOA audience build up and post HOA summary.
    • For purposes of highly interactive discussions, an audience maybe assigned to lead interactions and questions.
    • Training modules for social media “adoption” for physicians and patients shall be included in the topics for HOA.
    • While we are on regular Google+ Hangout on air every saturday, discussions will continue on various #HealthXPh topics thru Twitter, hashtag “#HealthXPh”, facebook in this discussion group and on Google+, in this community

    #HealthXPh is an open and free community of healthcare stakeholders (Physicians, patients, HC institutions, HC academe)  discussing emerging technologies in health and social media as it impacts the Philippine health landscape. To join, interact and make known your presence known inside these #HealthXph communities:

    Thank you Drs. Iris Isip-Tan, Gia Sison and Narciso Tapia for the lively discussions!

  • What is #HealthXPh?

    #HealthXPh is a  collaborative effort  by healthcare stakeholders (e.g. healthcare professionals, healthcare institutions, academe patients, policy makers)  to discuss and use, emerging technologies in social media and healthcare to positively impact the Philippine health landscape.

    How will you change healthcare tru social media?
    How will you change healthcare tru social media?

    While social media has been in the Philippines for quite sometime, collaboration between various healthcare stakeholders is a new thing for most of us. The following statements are what #HealthXPh could be.

      • It’s a collaborative effort of healthcare stakeholders- healthcare professionals, institutions, academe, patients and policy makers.
      • It will discuss, use and continually push the boundaries of social media and other emerging technologies in healthcare to impact the Philippine health landscape.
      • It aims to educate all the healthcare stakeholders.
      • It encourages collaboration and application of emerging technologies to improve delivery of  healthcare.
      • It is open and free to all the stakeholders.
      • Social media is going to impact Philippine healthcare. #HealthXPh want to make it a positive one.
      • Social media opens new possibilities to participatory medicine practice in the Philippines. #HealthXPh is taking advantage of that.
      • Social media and other emerging technology is making it easier for patients to access their healthcare professionals, institutions and policy makers. #HealthXPh will give insights on how to effectively manage this upsurge.

    What is not #HealthXPh?

      • It will not be a clinic online.
      • It will not replace the doctor-patients interactions inside a clinic.
      • It will not treat patients.
      • It will not pass judgement or bias on any healthcare issue but will maintain a healthy, lively discussions to educate.
      • It will not undermine authority, nor attack stakeholders to promote issues.
      • It will not jeopardize the doctor-patient privileges.

    These statements are still proposals and are subject to the discussions on #HealthXPh community. I highly encourage healthcare stakeholders  to participate in the discussions at #HealthXPh on Google Plus. We will be live online on Google Hangout starting this January 2014. An introductory Google Hang Out on Air for core panelist will happen on December 28, 2013 Saturday 10 AM.

    (Photo credits to@amanda_lyons at www.visualsforchange.com )