Doctors are increasingly sharing procedures on Periscope. For the uninformed, Periscope is an in-line Twitter application that facilitates live, personal broadcasting. Most recently, an achilles tendon repair from Ohio State was ’scoped'. I thought it sounded pretty interesting, but I got there too late. The party was over and the video was gone. The use of ... Continue Reading about Periscope as a Medical Medium
Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change
As someone who spends his time watching medicine’s collision with technology, it’s striking to see where children fit in. Or don’t fit in. Health technology favors big, nervous, healthy people with smartphones. But perhaps the winds are changing. Case in point: The Impact Pediatric Health pitch competition. This year’s SXSW Interactive festival brings together ... Continue Reading about Impact Pediatric Health | A Sign of Change
Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum
Last evening I followed a live Twitter event that Baylor Scott and White Health conducted around a heart transplant. You can see the stream at #HeartTXLive. Rethinking live events in health care While I’ve not been a fan of live Twitter events, this one made me think. Social health events once conceived in dry, 3rd person narrative have evolved. High def images ... Continue Reading about Health Care and the Visibility-Value Continuum
Weekend Medicine
It’s remarkable that hospitals still keep weekend schedules. On Saturday and Sunday, things stop. They don’t stop, but they really do. ORs operate with emergency staffing. Routine diagnostic imaging is held until Monday morning. Saturday and Sunday schedules are a throwback to a time when the tempo of health care was set by the doctor’s rounds and the hands of a ... Continue Reading about Weekend Medicine
Yes, Doctor
Not long ago I cared for the child of a family from a distant country. When I walked in, they stood up. When I walked out, they stood up. It was like The People’s Court. They agreed with whatever I said. Their obsequious nodding whenever I spoke made me feel brilliant. They treated me as though I knew it all. The problem was that the family’s insistence on ... Continue Reading about Yes, Doctor
When Hospitals Engage by Megaphone
Last fall while teaching at the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Residency, I sat with an hospital admin who asked me about her facility’s twitter and Facebook feeds. I told her it was a remarkable coincidence that everything created and shared was about her facility. She suggested it was because so many remarkable achievements came from her ... Continue Reading about When Hospitals Engage by Megaphone