Twitter: Live Surgery, Sugarstats and 100 ways for hospitals
There are too many interesting news and posts focusing on the potential benefits of Twitter in healthcare so I thought I would share these with you in a compilation.
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The first live-tweeted surgery (Global Neighbourhoods): Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit performed the first live-tweeted surgery. Can you imagine how useful it can be in the future in medical education? (And the monitor on the image proves only Tweetdeck could make it possible.)
Photo courtesy of Henry Ford Health Services
- 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter (phil baumann online): Many ideas that can revolutionize healthcare.
- 100 Ways for Hospitals, Health Systems to Twitter (Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders Media)
- Melissa Rethlefsen and Colin Segovis covered my favourite subject in their article, Medicine in the Era of Web 2.0
Twitter users now carry on conversations (called “tweets”) with each other, share information learned at conferences and CME events, and query peers about professional concerns. Physician bloggers Ves Dimov, M.D., of Clinical Cases and Images (http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com/) and Kevin Pho, M.D., of Kevin, M.D. (www.kevinmd.com) use Twitter to communicate information rapidly without writing a traditional blog post. Others use Twitter to rapidly share information gathered at conferences that colleagues are unable to attend.
To sum it up, Twitter is extremely useful these days and it will be even more popular in the future. When we are talking about online reputation, we will not refer to blogs, but Twitter accounts. Join the discussions there.
Update: As Bob Coffield pointed out on Twitter, it wasn’t the first live surgery “broadcasted” via Twitter.
Trackbacks & Pingbacks
- Twitter in de zorg: eerste operatie getwit | Medicalfacts.nl
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- The Implications for Live Tweeting Surgery by Health Commons
- World Health Care Congress Consumer Connectivity: Overcoming Legal and Policy Barriers for Health IT Adoption by Health Commons
- Missouri: Second Soldier at Base Dies of Meningitis - New York Times by Health Commons
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- Lathe of Dreams » MedSci: Good Morning, Your Doctor Will Tweet You Now…
- Physics and Ideation: When Does A Breakthrough Idea Become An Acceptable Idea? – Frog Blog
- Sandow’s Twitter point « The Dialogue Fringe
- Atlantis Technology Group Subsidiary TellyTube, Inc. Will Begin Testing Television Advertising With Comcast in the … | Twitter Auto Follower by autotwitterfollower.com
- Cool “Twitter” images
Bertalan,
A quick note – please delete if it’s not appropiate
I maintain two lists that may relate to your post:
1) http://www.twitter.com/hospitalgroup/ – only follows official US Hospital twitter accounts.
2) http://ebennett/org/hsnl/ – A list of US Hospitals that have Twitter, Facebook or YouTube accounts.
IS IT APPROPIATE FOR A DR TO DO A MICROFRACTURE SURGERY WHEN 75-80%OF THEE MENISCUS IS TAKEN OUT THAT STARTED FROM THE ANTERIOR HORN/BODY JUNCTION ALL THE WAY TO THE POSTERIOR HORN,OR A KNEE REPLACEMENT/PARTIAL OR WHOLE
i like the 140 uses link.. really interesting
Twittering from an operating room?
twitter is impressive.And tweetdeck makes it more impressive