How to Make Friends and Innovate: Using Social Networks to Transform Innovation in Health Care
Tags: physician social networks, patient social networks, Social BusinessAt this year’s forthcoming HBA Leadership Conference being held in Washington, DC, we will explore how social business tools are being used to drive innovation throughout the healthcare industry. From medical education and clinical trial development to clinical research and disease management, our panel will share specific examples and key learnings needed to accelerate the adoption and use of the right social strategy and tools.
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Tags: patient communities, patient social networks
This week I have posted as a guest on Shahid Shah's blog, The Healthcare IT Guy. I discuss how patient focused social networks are impacting how we provide care. Below is an excerpt from the post, which you can read in its entirety here: Guest Article: A Tech-savvy Physician’s View of Patient Social Networks.
Patient social networks are generally either diverse, all purpose communities, such as HealthCentral, MedHelp and RevolutionHealth or disease focused, such as Patients Like Me (neuro-degenerative diseases and mood disorders), Relief Insite (chronic pain), DiabetesMine (diabetes), and I’m Too Young for This (cancer patients from 15-40 years old). As these sites continue to grow in popularity, patients are using these communities to share and discuss daily life struggles or to cope with rare diseases.
(Collage of the many patient social networks)
