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:

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

How to use social media to supplement a novel curriculum in medical education. Twitter and Facebook are excellent applications of "push technology" as a means to deliver educational conten http://buff.ly/131Q8tW

Wiki as a Participatory Tool for Patients in Clinical Guideline Development http://buff.ly/SSA2cV

There are no definitive numbers on how many doctors prescribe apps but 10% of users have health apps on their phones http://buff.ly/QhKy0h

9% of medical school and residency program directors/coordinators search Facebook and Twitter to evaluate candidates http://buff.ly/UABZK4

Banned on Wall St.: Facebook, Twitter and Gmail. The number of global organizations blocking social media is declining 10 percent annually. By 2014, fewer than 30 percent of all large organizations are expected to be blocking employee access to social media. http://buff.ly/Ybn1Ay

59 Top Physician Blogs Worth Reading http://buff.ly/V37c91

Sign of the times: WSJ discontinues its health Blog http://buff.ly/YlouV8

How college students find and use information [Infographic] http://buff.ly/V2bXzx

Medical school applicants might want to rethink that last tweet http://buff.ly/YoTjZ5

“Human-powered discovery engine for interestingness” is what the NYTimes calls Maria Popova. The Web has a presentism bias, with Facebook updates, tweets and blog entries always appearing with the latest first http://buff.ly/VcDQFb

Productivity tips: TalkTyper and more http://buff.ly/VjmdUc

Social Media May Help Fight Childhood Obesity http://buff.ly/VjcIEx

Low-income urban youth are high users of technology but still prefer face-to-face meetings with doctor

From This survey included urban youth (aged 14-24 years) to asses the Use of Technology with Health Care Providers.

Eight focus groups including 82 primarily low-income urban African-American adolescents and young adults were completed.

Low-income urban adolescents and young adults (mean age, 18.5 years) reported high access to and use of technology. However, they still preferred face-to-face meetings with a healthcare provider because they felt that the information provided would be better tailored to their individual needs and more credible. Many worried about the confidentiality of conversations conducted using technology.

In conclusion, although low-income urban youth are high users of technology, they still prefer face-to-face meetings with a healthcare provider.

References:

Use of Technology with Health Care Providers: Perspectives from Urban Youth. Sarah Lindstrom Johnson et al. The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 160, Issue 6 , Pages 997-1002, June 2012.

Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) for the past 2-3 weeks:

Blogging about chronic pain and illness may decrease a sense of isolation http://buff.ly/QWMA0D

UK official sparks anger by advising users to give fake details to social media websites to protect their security http://buff.ly/R1hfdp

Social Media for Scientists: A lecture http://buff.ly/RMGFNt

Older patients join crowd consulting "Dr. Internet" http://buff.ly/PNeD7Y

Social media is a great way to connect with others at scientific meeting and share your personal experiences http://buff.ly/Sb2h8S

How doctors on social media are changing the face of medicine - Twitter takes the debate worldwide http://buff.ly/PSRmBv

Social Media in Healthcare: 5 Best Practice Examples http://buff.ly/RMJzSe

Crowdsourcing Gout (with tweets) - RonanTKavanagh: This is why I love learning on Twitter. New drug, limited experience and 4 rheumatologists chipping in: http://buff.ly/RMK7HS

The very idea of blogs as a separate-and-distinct entity has pretty much gone away. But that’s a good thing. http://buff.ly/RMLTZE

The Best Learning Management Systems http://bit.ly/Rq5PBS

The 7 Best Places For Online Education http://bit.ly/SPsV4y

Social media topics during the 2013 AAAAI Annual Meeting (February 22 - 26): http://buff.ly/PQBEqz

Online Tools for Academics at Conferences http://buff.ly/SPVods

Medicine, morality and health care social media - by the director of Mayo Clinic #HCSM center http://buff.ly/SRQqdE

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.

The #FOAMed revolution (Free Open Access Medical education)

From Mike Cadogan:

"The net effect of #FOAM has taken me quite by surprise (editor's note: #FOAMed is Free Open Access Medical education). Despite a complete lack of evidence, peer review, mission statements OR Big Pharma backing – the FOAMed revolution continues to infiltrate the psyche of the everyday healthcare professional. The ability to intelligently review, discuss and develop hypotheses, guidelines and issues; the sense of community; the sense of rebellious augmented learning and the joy of independence is rife…and contagious.

There are now an amazing 180 emergency medicine and critical care blogs. Bloggers write from 21 different countries. GMEP – ‘the Facebook of Medicine’ has just welcomed it’s 800th new member, 2 weeks after launch." http://buff.ly/12lzWzs

Here is my comment: Congratulations, Mike! These are amazing stats that illustrate an inspiring success! "Facebook of medicine", indeed. Let's keep it growing.

Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) from the past 2-3 weeks:

You CAN enjoy Twitter without tweeting -- From AllergyNet: This tweet recently crossed my timeline: “If you don’t engage, there is no point having followers. Agree?” No. I don’t agree. Why? Because a comment like that immediately disenfranchises the 40% of those on Twitter who never tweet. These are the same people that go to public meetings and never ask questions. This is acceptable in a public meeting, and it should be on Twitter. Being inactive does not mean being disinterested. http://buff.ly/SL85DS

Potentials of Social Media for Tacit Knowledge Sharing Amongst Physicians (PDF) http://bit.ly/RFrAfj

Social media is an efficient and effective method for physicians to keep up-to-date http://buff.ly/TEHaxW

How the Mayo Clinic Maximizes Learning Opportunities Through Social Media http://buff.ly/PNCRPb

"Allergy Action Plan: Bring The Paperwork To Life" (video) http://buff.ly/QN8tTW

The “most-tweeted” medical conference ever http://buff.ly/QQq0dI

The Smartphone in Medicine: A Review of Current and Potential Use Among Physicians and Students http://buff.ly/THrvOA

Mark Zuckerberg confirms: 'I wear the same thing every day' - NBC http://buff.ly/U9bwsE

ENT doctor: "Twitter is the best and most efficient way to get started learning from and sharing information" http://buff.ly/QVwjwS

How to automatically archive all the links you share to Twitter and Facebook http://bit.ly/SwanKI

Doctors Are Texting the Teenage Patient - NYTimes http://buff.ly/TczIUl

Virtually There -- following the 2012 ACEP meeiting via Twitter http://buff.ly/RgZ2fE

Web sites will soon fall into two categories: high audience low yield, low audience higher yield http://buff.ly/RVgLcW

Quantifying yourself: the apps I use to measure myself - Loic Le Meur http://buff.ly/Rld9R0

A History of Social Media [Infographic] http://buff.ly/RMC3t2

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.

Social media: how can doctors contribute?

"Social media: how doctors can contribute" is a brief but valuable opinion piece in The Lancet, one of the "big five" journals in the medical publishing world. I have suggested some practical examples before (http://goo.gl/eG7M1) and my comments are in the text below.

Most social media guides for doctors emphasize the need to:

- maintain patient confidentiality
- provide accurate information
- treat colleagues with respect
- avoid anonymity online if writing in a professional capacity
- be aware of how content is shared
- review privacy settings and online presence
- declare conflicts of interest
- maintain separate personal and professional profiles

Here are some quotes from The Lancet article:

"Accepting Facebook friend requests from patients is, in general, not advised. But what of situations where doctors and patients are genuine friends? (then it's OK in many cases).

What, too, of the benefits of doctors providing medical information via blogs, Twitter, or Facebook? Current guidance focuses more on the risks than the benefits of doctors' use of social media."

Providing only negative examples of social media use by doctors is like teaching medical students only with "Morbidity and Mortality" conferences. Providing examples of positive outcomes and best practices is essential.

Patients use social networks to research their symptoms, their doctors, their treatments, and to set up support and information groups.

Doctors can use social media to drive awareness, to provide accurate information, and as a portal to communicate with other physicians.

"Much is said about the dangers of social media. Care about posting in a public space is, of course, needed. Doctors, though, should seize the opportunities provided by social networks to improve the health of their patients, and do their utmost to ensure that the highest quality of health information and access to treatment is there for all."

Finally, some common sense thinking about social media use by doctors has made it into a top 5 medical journal.

Cycle of Patient Education (click here to enlarge the image). An editable copy for your presentation is available at Google Drive:



Cycle of Online Information and Physician Education (click here to enlarge the image). An editable copy for your presentation is available at Google Drive:



The two cycles work together as two interlocking cogwheels (TIC). Here is how to facilitate the Rise of the ePhysican who works hand in hand with the ePatient:



Products of the Cycle of Patient Education: EQUALS

- Energy!
- Quality of life is improved
- Understanding of patient condition is improved
- "Affinity" - better physician-patient relationship leads to increased referrals to the practice, e.g. 2-5 new patients per week per physician, increased revenue
- Lower rate of ER visits, hospital admissions, phone calls
- Savings for patient and health system

References:

Social media: how doctors can contribute. The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9826, Page 1562, 28 April 2012.
Social media in medicine: How to be a Twitter rockstar and help your patients and your practice 

Related reading:

Howard Luks MD @hjluks: Many MDs and hospitalis are rushing into a So Me with a lack of proper offline preparation, and the lack of understanding buff.ly/LS5WHt

Comments from Twitter:

@mHIMSS: Nice breakdown! [GRAPHIC] How can #physicians contribute to #patient experience w/ #socialmedia? ow.ly/eQW0L via @DrVes

Laika (Jacqueline) @laikas: Social media: how can doctors contribute? j.mp/PD06fe #socialmedia by @DrVes (with nice Patient Education Cycles) HT @DrShock

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:

Tweets for Credit: Social Media’s Role in CME | The Doctor's Tablet http://goo.gl/QToLQ

"Many faculty members have a keen interest in learning how to better use Twitter. They are attracted to Twitter’s quick pace, easy learning opportunities and ability to help them control more carefully what they share publicly in social media."

Twitter and Medical Education: Information and Inspiration from Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Personal Analytics for Facebook by Wolfram|Alpha http://goo.gl/bRQG1

20 Symptoms of Internet Social Media Addiction. How many of those do you have? http://goo.gl/CkQFh

YouTube for information on rheumatoid arthritis - at least 30% of videos were misleading. A wakeup call? http://goo.gl/Rjzdv

#FOAM Party! (The Future of Medical Education) http://goo.gl/5qZXF

Randomized controlled trial of political messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users http://goo.gl/Q0QAi

Health Care Social Media List is now hosted by Mayo Clinic http://mayocl.in/QdWGxg and http://mayocl.in/QdWGNO

Medicine 2.0'12 - a set on Flickr http://goo.gl/VOekT

Creating the #FOAMed network (Free Online Medical Education) http://buff.ly/PqezX2

Life as a Healthcare CIO: Mobile Devices for Medical Education http://buff.ly/QoLsX2

Tweeting a Medical Meeting http://buff.ly/Pqfw1y

Your YouTube original videos now available in Google Takeout - Data Liberation http://buff.ly/PqiYcH

Happy science: Research Communication http://buff.ly/PNd0CB

The New Google Trends http://buff.ly/TT9nRV

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.

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:

EM and critical care physicians adopt social media at rapid pace - growth in 18 months: 77% Twitter, 42% Facebook http://goo.gl/MySga

All Students Need Blogs - Share what you have learned http://goo.gl/w9Utd

Are Twitter friends real friends? A rheumatologists' tweetup proves they're real, and yes, they're friends http://goo.gl/6oE93

4 ways for practices to benefit from a social media presence: Offer information beyond the appointment, Raise physician profiles, Influence online search, Marketing toolkit http://goo.gl/5mAz4

How Sanofi Is Writing The Social Media Rules For Big Pharma Without Running Afoul Of The FDA http://goo.gl/TNF4l

Dell CEO's security shut down his daughter’s Twitter account, revealed too many specifics about family’s whereabouts http://goo.gl/BrgwK

“Most essential app for Physician Residents is not medical and is free - Evernote” http://goo.gl/U8AfC

How to Automatically Archive Your Life with IFTTT and Evernote http://goo.gl/ocAOM

What is #FOAM? Free Open Access Meducation http://goo.gl/ILrMh

How physician practices can stir up Pinterest - amednews http://goo.gl/4BFgU

Social media and health care: opportunities and obstacles (interactive graph) http://pwc.to/OaRWHX

10 Social Media Tips for Physicians http://bit.ly/OaS5Lz

Facebook’s Gen Y Nightmare http://buff.ly/PqgMli

A Tweet Meme Farewell - they were the first to create the retweet button http://bit.ly/UvKAht

How Twitter connects Mayo Clinic and patients - Lee Aase's presentation http://goo.gl/7LNde

Tweetcamp for New Connections

View more presentations from Lee Aase

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.

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)

View more presentations from PharmARC

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.

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:

Tweeting the Meeting: An In-Depth Analysis of Twitter Activity at Kidney Week 2011 - PLoS ONE http://goo.gl/eOmLO

Avoiding the pitfalls of social media as a medical practitioner - NPR interview. Doctors are turning more and more to Facebook and Twitter to market their businesses. But some are overstepping the boundaries of doctor/patient confidentiality by discussing individual cases online and even offering medical advice to people they don't know. http://goo.gl/AzVHS

Impressive: @giustini 's 140 SlideShare presentations achieved more than 1 mln viewings - focused on #HCMS and medlib http://goo.gl/qHmKR

How to Save Time Doing Healthcare Social Media: A Primer for Physicians http://goo.gl/wIS34

How to Use a Free Blog by Blogger/Google for Business http://goo.gl/vAQcS

10 Places to Find Unique Content to Share http://goo.gl/zCCMB

SXSW PanelPicker - Digital Doctors http://goo.gl/G3qKz

Tips for doctors looking to engage with #HCSM by @RonanTKavanagh: "childlike playfulness, humility, politeness, and humour" http://goo.gl/zKZZ5

Smartphone use during inpatient attending rounds is common and there is potential for distraction (study) http://bit.ly/POqDEz

One Doctor’s Prescription to Avoid Social Media Overload http://goo.gl/bdtPU

Why the Internet is More Attractive than the Library http://buff.ly/LxlNFu

Promises and Challenges of Virtual Learning Environment in Medicine - IAMSE Web Seminar http://goo.gl/CvpPg

Twitter Use at American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions http://goo.gl/NBjOL

American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Twitter Buzz Analysis by PharmARC

View more presentations from PharmARC

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.

Comments from Twitter:

Mike Cadogan @sandnsurf: More great healthcare and social media articles #FOAM #HCSM - via @DrVes litfl.com/OkCtnd

Dr John Weiner @AllergyNet: 13 excellent links RT @DrVes: Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles goo.gl/St4NL

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:

Twitter Use at American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meetings: 14-40 doctors generated 29% of meeting dialogue http://goo.gl/fw94I

8 free blog/website templates for Blogger by Google http://goo.gl/XqFsh

How to Build and Support Online Communities Within Facebook And Twitter http://goo.gl/shdP6

More than 50% of small businesses do not have a website - Google pushes GYBO: Get Your Business Online http://bit.ly/QYMxDd

Growth of Doctor Rating Websites Prompts Worries, more than 50 sites allow patients to post online about their doctors http://goo.gl/bsVaw

A "graveyard" of cancelled Google products, collected on Pinterest by a helpful Microsoft employee http://buff.ly/LX85Bv and http://buff.ly/N6Tm0R

Library’s New Role to Enhance Visibility of Researchers « Laika's MedLibLog http://buff.ly/PeyFYo

No medical social media strategy is complete without a plan for a blog. From Howard J. Luks, MD: Google Panda and Penguin Changes are Two More Reasons for Doctors to Blog http://goo.gl/PGlSx

Lamenting the end of iGoogle: iGoogle, a personalized dashboard, was a remnant of the age of Internet portals but for me it was my brain, at a glance. I might just learn to leave a dozen browser tabs open and skip around them while working during the day. Sure, that's the way a lot of people work, but it's still an unpleasant prospect. Without iGoogle, it seems, my brain might never again be the same. http://goo.gl/GrmjB

Sharing great content 15 times a day http://goo.gl/8pD8G

What are the ethics of crowdsourcing a diagnosis? http://goo.gl/Ez3wj

Richmond Doc: There could be great value in using social media as the world’s largest “curbside consult” in which we ask peers to provide suggestions and insight. Crowdsourcing would be like an enormous brainstorming session to help come up with ideas that the primary physician might have overlooked or failed to consider.

Robert West comments: Personally, I would prefer to have my own health conditions crowdsourced, than continue forever untreated or improperly treated. Not all people feel the same way, though.

Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind - User not able to reach anyone at Twitter or Facebook http://goo.gl/P9d4a

Social media firm targets prospective patients - will provide "complete management" of Twitter/Facebook for dermatologist offices http://goo.gl/h8NX3

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.

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:

Facebook's user growth rate in the U.S. is slowing sharply http://goo.gl/wGO4c

Making social media work professionally in sensitive jobs – teaching, the police, healthcare http://goo.gl/ywfSP

A Brief Social Media Guide for Authors of Medical Resources http://goo.gl/6n17e

Phil Baumann: I hope that there is never ever going to be a “Facebook for Healthcare” http://goo.gl/hh3cI

Are hospitals into social media? A worldwide map: http://goo.gl/AAly2

Cleveland Clinic summit on Patient Experience shares presentation slides - a must-read for those interested in #HCSM http://goo.gl/EnMbK

Vote for 100 Most Influential People in Heathcare http://goo.gl/LXOhd - Not a single medical blogger apart from @Bob_Wachter made the list

10 Survey Tools for Bloggers http://goo.gl/8z21Y

Doctors use YouTube to build their personal brand by putting their expertise on video http://goo.gl/BQkGU

Millions of Healthcare Hashtags in the Symplur project - a vast database of information that can mined http://goo.gl/099ld

4 ways social media can improve your medical practice - AMA MedNews http://goo.gl/4b2RZ

2012 Physicians Survey reveals dissatisfaction and gloomy outlook - Orthopedic surgeon Howard J. Luks, shows the way forward http://goo.gl/eBzUA

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.

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:

Survey of 1,700 U.S. physicians reports that 12.9% are writing a blog http://goo.gl/zDUUO - Not realistic.

Infographic: The Anatomy of Linkbuilding http://goo.gl/gSnyK

Another healthcare social media #HCSM expert moves "completely away from from healthcare" http://goo.gl/Nwfup

Transforming academic conferences through Twitter http://goo.gl/bF55K

A Little 'Like' Can Mean Big Trouble - Facebook Can Mean Trouble at the Office (of course) - WSJ http://goo.gl/KsXOF

The new JAMA website looks just like a blog and that's on purpose http://goo.gl/nTGFV

Top Reasons for unfollowing people on Twitter - Infographic http://goo.gl/7Prfh

The risks and benefits of social media for cardiologists - theheart dot org interview with @doctorwes http://goo.gl/TUfxj

7 Tools To Make Your Twitter Account Stand Out http://goo.gl/ltX1d

Twitter Knows When You Sleep, and More - NYTimes http://goo.gl/n6m3L

The DSM-Tw: Handbook of Twitter Personality Types http://goo.gl/f7w6U

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.

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:

Ed Bennett shares three things he's learned about Healthcare Social Media: Our patients are ahead of us, Real change start at the top, Social media is more than the sum of its parts http://goo.gl/fD2Sj

Three things I've learned about Healthcare Social Media

View more PowerPoint from Ed Bennett

Social media do's and don'ts for doctors - common sense advice from "Fierce Practice Management" http://goo.gl/ISzYO

ENT blog reaches 5 million web visits - their YouTube channel received 230 million views http://goo.gl/0nlFg

Many people still think Mayo Clinic is (only) a hospital http://goo.gl/kqfr9

Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals realize they need to start blogging ASAP - AAMC http://goo.gl/Sa5qO

Should doctors stop patients from taking smartphone pictures? Yes, suggests amednews http://goo.gl/Mf1if - Not likely to work.

70% of heavy users of mobile devices experience “phantom vibration syndrome” - NYTimes http://goo.gl/Drvy5

How to Become a Healthcare Social Media Superstar #HCSM http://goo.gl/5J3PO and http://goo.gl/LtvQN

Research Bloggers show a preference for papers from high-impact journals - just like everyone else on earth http://goo.gl/Ny7EA

Traffic to Hospital Web Sites - Cleveland Clinic surges, overtaking Mayo and Johns Hopkins http://goo.gl/O5Msp

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 acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.

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:

The pros/cons of using social media in biomedicine http://goo.gl/neenB

14 Ways Social Media May Soon Change Your Doctor's Visit http://goo.gl/muWK1

Can Twitter predict disease outbreaks? | BMJ http://goo.gl/EU0uO

Social Media ROI Reform - Measuring the effectiveness of your hospital SoMe efforts http://goo.gl/3YPQH

As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks' - AP story http://goo.gl/QdfkB

Create free infographics online with Drag and Drop pre-designed themes: easel.ly http://goo.gl/uXXmi

How Amazon Killed The Book Reviewer Star - aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers as good as professional book critics http://goo.gl/ISc15

Research Sidebar in Google Docs - find more information about words in a document, add web content http://goo.gl/IqdQb

How blogging has helped me academically: Because I write most days, my writing has improved dramatically http://goo.gl/GLNsL

Social Media and Relationship Stress: There can be consequences when "Like" turns to love online http://goo.gl/V5itM

Medical School Life in Cambridge and Debrecen - @Berci compares the promotional videos http://goo.gl/BZm2w

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 acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.

Comments from Twitter:

Neelesh Bhandari MD @edrneelesh: @DrVes That's an excellent selection of #hcsm posts

Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

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

Understanding Research Impact http://goo.gl/2ZHCK and 20 Strategies To Enhance The Impact Of Your Research http://goo.gl/49MLb

BMJ Learning gets social - British Medical Journal platform learns new tricks in this brave new social media world http://goo.gl/4vncy

Doctors' Use of iPads Becoming Mainstream (not my impression). Also, physician-only social networks remain stagnant http://goo.gl/9QfDf

Heart Rhythm Society 2012 Scientific Session in the Age of Twitter http://goo.gl/FGH10

"Healthcare Going To The Dogs" - a video for training hospital administrators http://goo.gl/hv40a and http://goo.gl/xsW4J

Cleveland Clinic starts a blog called "Health Hub" http://goo.gl/66FF0 - competing with the aging consumer portal of MayoClinic.com

JAMA will link 10 AMA journals like a group blog - all names will start with “JAMA”, for example, Archives of Surgery will become “JAMA Surgery” http://goo.gl/FJLL2

Cultivate followers on social media if you want to communicate science

From the blogs Soapbox Science http://goo.gl/cPQq1 and Medical Museion http://goo.gl/QmEU7 :

"Social media platforms can be very limiting. For example, can you define genotype and phenotype in 140 characters or less? If you want to use social media to communicate effectively, you need to drive readers somewhere.

Writing a blog gives substance to your social media presence. You have the opportunity to talk about science in a meaningful way, which ultimately helps people better understand the world around them. Answering those questions is probably why you got into science in the first place. Don’t be afraid to share what you’ve discovered."

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