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Rabu, 26 Oktober 2011

Using Social Media For Practicing Evidence Based Medicine

The two biggest buzzwords in medicine today are Social Media and Evidence based medicine (EBM). Social media allows people to easily share information (via blogs, twitter, Facebook etc). This information can easily reach fellow professionals. With more and more doctors using these tools to share information (evidence) they find useful, such social media platforms are becoming important information resources.

Check this Presentation on using Social Media to Promote Evidence-Based Practice : A Primer on Blogs, Wikis & Twitter by Dean Giustini et al.

Cochrane Social Media Workshop 2011

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Kamis, 26 Mei 2011

Doctors' Use of Email and Social Media : Guidelines

Tens of Thousands of Indian doctors are using the internet, efficiently and otherwise. From search rankings to blogs and community building to branding, the internet has brought up new ways to communicating and researching. Here are the links to a few helpful guidelines to help doctors navigate the online world.

Doctor-Patient Email Communications is a growing trend and hard to underestimate. Very often, physicians are unsure of the limits and liabilities of conducting medical communication via email. Luckily the American Medical association has long back issued a set of practical guidelines to follow

Social Media is now being widely used by doctors as well as patients. All doctors even remotely on social media face many ethical and moral questions regarding online physician-patient relationships. Recently, the AMA posted some guidelines for Doctors use of social media tools in a professional capacity. Even the Australian and New Zealand Medical Associations have come out with their combined effort on this dilemma. Here’s the link to the Physician Social Media Guidebook (a 14 page pdf you can download/ view online). It is one of the most practical and useful guide of its kind online.

Minggu, 12 September 2010

Mayo Clinic and Social Media : Success Stories

Mayo Clinic has a long history of Innovation. The clinic started as a single, small outpatient facility, and later became America's first integrated group practice, and currently integrates the practice of over 1,700 medical doctors.

In 2010, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, was ranked as the #2 overall hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report . The hospital maintains an exhaustive informational website and a very helpful patient portal.

The institution uses Social Media extensively. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on health care, builds on Mayo Clinic’s leadership among health care providers in adopting social media tools. See below a presentation by Lee Aase, Director for Social Media at Mayo Clinic to view a few case studies in the use of Social Media by Mayo Clinic.

CME and Social Media

View more presentations from Lee Aase.

Also see :
How Mayo Clinic Uses Social Media