Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2 weeks:

If you’re keen to experiment with social media, Twitter is a great place to start. The real value of many medicine-related tweets is the links to web pages - Medical Journal of Australia http://goo.gl/yVWhA

Doctor: Yammer had a positive effect on the work atmosphere and made the practice feel smaller http://goo.gl/yVWhA

Social media continues to excel at reaching patients and medical peers http://goo.gl/odKGo

Pharma Marketing and Social Media http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1004986 - SoMe landscape changes quickly, NEJM was concerned about Google SideWiki in 2010 - it was discontinued about a year later.

9 Smartphone Apps to Improve Your Medical Practice http://goo.gl/nUjNP -- 15 Smartphone Apps to Improve Your Practice http://goo.gl/s3dnR

Harvard Medical School will teach doctors all about "Creating the Brand Called Dr. You: Media Training Boot Camp" http://buff.ly/OUBY1O

How medical doctors and students should use social media: a review of guidelines for proposing recommendations http://goo.gl/9LvkZ

Facebook friends with your doctor: good medicine or ethically 'icky'? The Seattle Times http://goo.gl/p8pCw

Patient.co.uk app allows you to to replace educational pamphlets for patients with an app http://goo.gl/KQcJH

Social-media tools can boost productivity - Dr. Luks uses Doximity for referrals and digital fax - USA Today http://goo.gl/hbFPZ

ASCO 2011 Twitter Analysis of Top Links Shared and Comments http://goo.gl/h8Dza

PharmARC - ASCO 2011 Twitter Analysis of Top Links Shared and Comments on Molecules (3rd through 7th june)

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The articles were selected from my Twitter and Google Reader streams. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases@gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.