Tuesday, January 26, 2010

SXSH - The Healthcare Social Media Preconference at SXSW

Plans are being made for a HCSM (Health Care Social Media) pre-conference in Austin, TX on March 11 - the day before SXSW Interactive begins.

Shwen Gwee, founder of the Social Pharmer Network and the Med 2.0 Blog is getting things organized on Twitter. Follow the tag #sxsh on Twitter for updates as the details get set.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Welcome To Our Blog

Your blog hosts are Aimee Roundtree and Ed Bennett.

We're hosting a core conversation at the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival on Sunday March 14 at 11 AM, and we'd like to get the discussion started here.

Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.

Please share your thoughts, experiences and research on the following topics:

1. How popular and prevalent is social networking use in hospital settings?
2. Which hospitals currently use the technology and how do they use it?
3. How might the technology be used to aid in healthcare reform?
4. In what way does the technology complicate patient privacy and HIPPA issues?
5. What future applications of the technology might help resolve longstanding health care problems, such as treatment adherence and healthcare disparities?
6. How has social networking changed the nature of the patient-provider relationship?
7. What revisions to to health communication theory does the technology inspire?
8. How can social networking improve evidence-based medicine, translational research and medical training?
9. In what way can continuing medical education benefit from the technology?
10. How might social networking software be deployed to facilitate integrated care?