Kaiser Permanente on Understanding the Social Doctor

March 3, 2013

This week Kaiser Permanente hosted an event at the Center for Total Health to release the results of a new study looking at physician conversations on social platforms.  Graciously supported by KP, the study was fueled by the thinking of Greg Matthews and team of developers at WCG.  Ted Eytan of KP was there at [...]

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Role Models and Digital Professionalism

March 2, 2013

When you watch and listen to thousands of doctors talking, creating, curating and commenting, you’ll find that there those who maintain their presence with remarkable balance and equanimity.  They talk to the point of being human but never to the point of being inhumane.  They’re open enough that they’re different.  They share to a degree [...]

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Regulating How Doctors Behave

March 1, 2013

Institutions are looking for rules to govern how doctors should behave using public digital media.  When I’m asked about rules I usually suggest that we start by referencing the standard manual of physician behavior.  That, of course, gives us a nice place to start. Blank stares. But certainly there are agreed upon guidelines that direct [...]

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Do We Care What Doctors Think?

February 25, 2013

Doctors often avoid an online presence for fear that they’ll be approached by strangers with questions.  I haven’t found this to be the case myself.  I’m very visible in these parts yet I’m shocked by how few people ask questions about their kids. Susannah Fox today touched on the issue today.  She arranged some recent [...]

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Powerful American Voices – Aligned for Health

February 24, 2013

This week Kaiser Permanente is initiating a new conversation about health.  American Voices – Aligned for Health is a panel discussion and event centered on the social discussions happening around health.  It seems that physicians, policymakers, and the media talk about health, but the nature of their conversations are entirely different. Kaiser Permanente is expected [...]

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You Are Not Alone

February 23, 2013

One of the fears of a public presence is the eventuality of having a mishap.  The more you write, record and  say, the odds are that there’s something you’ll say the wrong way.  You may overstep a boundary within your professional community.  You may screw up.  This eventuality of error is a huge preoccupation for [...]

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Walk, Talk, Write

February 22, 2013

Every morning I take my dog Molly for a walk. The birds sing, Molly poops, and I think (Not necessarily in that order).  And for many years I wrote things down when I arrived home after my walks. Very recently I decided to flirt with voice recognition to capture ideas.  The results have been remarkable. [...]

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Do Patients Have a Right to Understand the EHR?

February 21, 2013

A Kentucky electrophysiologist created a satirical post recently that positioned the EPIC EHR as a computer game.  Screenshots of platform were used and he was subsequently forced to remove the images.  Wes Fisher caught the story and has the necessary links.  While I didn’t feel that the original post was nearly as clever as it [...]

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Do You Initiate or Respond?

February 19, 2013

Several years ago Seth Godin wrote about our modes of daily operation which center around response and initiation.  It’s interesting to look at medicine from this perspective. In medicine we are all about about response.  At our core, we respond to disease.  On a more granular level we respond to pages, abnormal lab results, and [...]

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Vizify: Infographic meets Biography

February 18, 2013

Check out Vizify, an application that pulls data from your social networks and generates an always up-to-date interactive personal profile.  It’s infographic meets biography.  You can find mine here and I think you’ll probably agree that it beats a dry 500 word bio narrative.  And the career timeline trumps LinkedIn’s resume style work history.  I found the Twitter [...]

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