It looks as though SXSWi has finally recognized the need for formal healthcare dialog through the addition of a healthcare track in 2011. The Accelerator track will apparently be expanded to include health products. Now how cool is that? If you attended SXSH or SXSWi in 2010, the writing was on the wall: Social health needs to be on the table in mainstream forums. If ... Continue Reading about SXSWi to Add Health Track in 2011
iMedExchange – Bringing the Power of Social Media to Physicians
If you've come to believe that physicians and social networks aren't a good combination, check out this teaser from the up-and-coming physician network, iMedExchange. While facilitated physician networks have been a difficult sell, iMedExchange appears to be delivering a fresh, expandable, next-generation platform that will offer real value for discerning ... Continue Reading about iMedExchange – Bringing the Power of Social Media to Physicians
Why Physicians Don’t Use LinkedIn
For the most comprehensive overview of what doctors can do with LinkedIn, check out the LinkedIn Physician Guide over on The Public Physician. It covers all the stuff in Why Physicians Don't Use LinkedIn and more. Where are the doctors on LinkedIn? If you spend any time there you’ll find that we’re few and far between. Sure there are the entrepreneurs, the physician ... Continue Reading about Why Physicians Don’t Use LinkedIn
Medical Grand Rounds – Artsy Doctors, Genes and Creepy Imagery
It’s been a tough week for the anti-vaccine movement but an important week for pediatric health. Yesterday the UK’s General Medical Council announced that Andrew Wakefield, who’s fraudulent manipulation of data spawned the vaccine-autism cottage industry, would be ‘struck’ from the medical register. This action by the GMC is one more nail in the coffin of the man who ... Continue Reading about Medical Grand Rounds – Artsy Doctors, Genes and Creepy Imagery
Medicine Grand Rounds – May 25 2010
I’m your humble host for Grand Rounds next week. The theme is a secret. Actually, it isn’t a secret. I just haven’t decided on a theme yet but I’m sure I will between now and next week. I’m thinking something along the lines of evolving memes in social health. I’m transiently preoccupied with how Health 2.0 has impacted the doctor-patient connection. If you see any ... Continue Reading about Medicine Grand Rounds – May 25 2010
Is There a Social Health Bubble?
I regularly talk to my patients/parents about social health. What parents do, what they think and how they socially experience their child’s problems has become an interest of mine. I can hear it now: “Of course patients won’t discuss their social health activities with you, you’re a doctor.” Perhaps, but I don’t think so. Actually, I’ve had some very interesting ... Continue Reading about Is There a Social Health Bubble?