Planning a visit to a patient September 14, 2010
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I remember when Maarten told us how he used Google Docs to let his friends organize a visit to him in the hospital during his chemotherapy. Now Lucien Engelen described a new system that lets friends and family members schedule visits online.
In cooperation with “bezoekhetziekenhuis.nl” we launched -as first hospital in the Netherlands (may be even European ?) a hospital-wide system for visitors to plan and schedule their visit to patients at our facilities. Otfen many visitors come together at the bedside of the patient, and the next day there isn’t anybody visiting. Also somtimes there will be day’s the patient can’t receive any visitors due to treatment, diagnostics or the are not in the mood. All of this can be handles in this system where one of the familymembers take the lead to invite their family and relations to the system. Whenever somebody wants to visit he will enter this in the system. Visible is how many people are already coming. Of something happens, like transfer to another ward, this can be entered in the system also, invoking a mail to the community of the patient. So the family is in charge of maintaining this system, but it is a lot easier then all the phone calls and organizing-fuzz normally.
Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media August 2, 2010
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Mayo Clinic, the leader of the healthcare social media movement, launched the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media with a clear mission:
Mayo Clinic believes individuals have the right and responsibility to advocate for their own health, and that it is our responsibility to help them use social media tools to get the best information, connect with providers and with each other, and inspire healthy choices. We intend to lead the health care community in applying these revolutionary tools to spread knowledge and encourage collaboration among providers, improving health care quality everywhere.
Mission of the Center: Lead the social media revolution in health care, contributing to health and well being for people everywhere.
There is no question the movement will be in the best hands, for proof, just take a look at one of their first entries: Case Study: Using Social Media to Promote Organ and Tissue Donation
Amazing job!
Health 2.0 News: iFall and Marketing Hospitals May 6, 2010
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- Watch Live Surgeries on your iPhone and iPad – Coming soon via MDiTV (iMedical Apps):
- Juggle All Your Social Networks (Edelman Digital): A few great tips about tools that can help you manage all the social networks you use.
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
A team at Florida State University is developing software on Android phones to help detect falls and shorten the time it takes to alert emergency services. Unlike other fall-detection technology, this app adds fall detection capability to one of the most commonly-owned devices – your phone.
- Dr. A You Tube Site: Dr: A has been running a medical online radio show for years as well and now he has a Youtube channel.
Health 2.0 News: Human Tamagotchis and Twitter Tummy Tone March 24, 2010
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- How to Exercise WHILE Blogging or Doing Other Computer Work (Clinical Cases and Images): From Twitter Tummy Tone to Blogger Breath
- Time to Re-think Hospital Social Media Adoption (Ed Bennett): Ed published the latest data and had a quite astonishing conclusion.
We are now at 805 hospitals out of 1,500 doing some sort of social media.
That’s a 53% adoption rate.
Not bad for a conservative industry like health care.
- Statistical Errors in Medical Studies (Curious Cat)
Intel is taking steps in healthcare 2.0:
- You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game (Wired Science): Thomas Goetz writes about tools and applications that can play a major role in our lives. We are the modern tamagotchis.
- Use of Internet to Obtain Health Information Can Make You Depressed (Pharma Marketing Blog)
Web 2.0 in Action in Hospitals February 22, 2010
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We can talk about the potential role of social media or web 2.0 in the future of healthcare forever but what really counts is how doctors use these tools and applications in their practices. So I’m very glad when I see an example that works in real, and it means there are reasons to work more and more in order to change healthcare through social media. I also have to mention the 53% adoption rate of hospitals. Ed Bennett highlighted we’re now at 805 hospitals out of 1,500 doing some sort of social media. Not bad, right?
Let’s see the scenario Ves Dimov, MD featured on Clinical Cases and Images:
“It is difficult to keep track of which patients are in which rooms, how many patients are in the waiting room, and how far the doctors are falling behind with their patients for the day. If patients were late, canceled their appointments, or the waiting room was overflowing, the doctor would be the last to know.”
As an experiment, Southeast Health Center incorporated the “Check-in Tracker”, a shared spreadsheet on Google Docs, into their clinic flow which you can see a sample of below:
And Kevin, MD pointed out the idea of Elizabeth Han:
We might get lots of great discussion, but wouldn’t it be nice if a portion of the visit could focus on addressing “trending topics”? So, once again:
1. Take 10 minutes at the midpoint of the visit and have everyone tweet their feelings, keywords, anything.
2. Visualize in real-time with Twitterfall.
3. Discuss, discuss, discuss!
There are so many nice examples it’s hard to mention all of them. But stay tuned on Scienceroll.com for more!
Plug-and-play Hospitals in Haiti January 23, 2010
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The Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 and received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. They have a special role when humanitarian catastrophes occur. Just like now in Haiti, they have to provide doctors with the facilities required for providing sufficient healthcare services. David Walkley from this prestigious organization describes how they use plug-and-play hospitals.
List of Hospitals in Social Media: Update November 17, 2009
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Ed Bennett has been updating a huge list of US hospitals that are engaged in social media. They manage a blog, or have Twitter, Youtube or Facebook accounts. Now there are 441 hospitals in the list and it’s still growing.
- 213 YouTube Channels
- 241 Facebook pages
- 323 Twitter Accounts
- 55 Blogs
European Hospitals in Social Media October 23, 2009
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We all know how valuable the work of Ed Bennett is. He is trying to describe how American hospitals are using social media. Just take a look at his statistics or his recent slideshow. But what about Europe? Lucien Engelen and his team have recently launched the European Hospitals blog.
On the blog, they publish data about how European hospitals are using or trying to use social media. My favourite example is Switzerland:
But here is a summary:
Follow their blog for more info on this important issue.
