Physician entrepreneur Karthik Koduru, an oncologist, will highlight how his businesses, PulsedIn and OncoPower, are supporting patient engagement at the MedCity ENGAGE conference Nov 6-7 in ...
Actor/comedian Colton Dunn, of “Superstore” on NBC, has picked up the slack, posting a series of low-budget but effective videos as alternative ads for HealthCare.gov. The post Rogue so...
https://medcitynews.com/2017/01/rogue-social-media-healthcare-gov/
Three strategies for effectively engaging patients on social media. The post How to effectively engage patients on social media appeared first on MedCity News .
https://medcitynews.com/2016/08/effectively-engage-patients-social-media/
Many hospitals still refuse to acknowledge the importance of patient reviews and ratings on social media, but even for those that do, there are challenges. We highlight one effort that may he...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/08/healthcare-struggle-social-media-ratings/
Jacobs regularly tweeted and blogged about her many hospital stays, including her poor experiences. She was famously outspoken and humorous about her health and her medical care. The post J...
The donor registration drive is the culmination of the partnership between Tinder and a nonprofit group called Organize, which aims to end the organ donor shortage. A similar campaign between...
Qntfy, a Crownsville, Maryland-based, early-stage company, recently launched OurDataHelps.org, in conjunction with a psychologist and two suicide prevention activists. The post Startup asks peo...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/04/social-media-suicide-prevention/
Any Messenger user can ask health questions to HealthTap’s 100,000 U.S. physicians in 141 specialties and get quick answers from whichever doctors happen to see a post. The post HealthTap...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/04/healthtap-facebook-messenger/
The plaintiffs claimed that the websites of the healthcare organizations contain secret “Facebook code” that “commandeers” browsers to capture protected health information and forward the...
Did you miss the birth of @DrDonaldJTrump on Twitter, clearly the greatest, most significant and, of course, patriotic birth Twitter has ever seen? It was born in America, and has the paperwo...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/03/ben-carson-is-out-dr-trump-to-the-rescue/
Despite our wish expressed after last year’s HIMSS conference that the #HIMSSselfie should be so over, it seems to be back, totes ready to jump the shark again. Maybe it will jump Katy Perr...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/02/himss16-himssselfie-wont-die/
Peach does not have a newsfeed, so, in theory, it’s less of a time suck than Facebook or Twitter. But is it suitable for healthcare? The post Is the new social media app Peach suitable fo...
https://medcitynews.com/2016/02/social-media-peach-healthcare/
Oh, and he may just burn that Wu Tang clan album. The post Who will play Martin Shkreli in a ‘100 percent’ happening Martin Shkreli movie? appeared first on MedCity News .
It wasn’t the story itself or anything about healthfinch that was controversial, though. It was more about the idea of electronic medical records in the first place. The post Do EMRs not work...
We’ll discuss on MedHeads how harnessing the power of viral videos can help improve patient education efforts, and even improve business. The post On MedHeads this week – Viral videos in he...
It’s a healthcare social media trend reshaping medicine – though we have no peer reviewed literature to share with you to prove this is true. The post Theranos is in trouble. It needs a mem...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/theranos-is-in-trouble-it-needs-a-meme-introducing-theranosing/
Keeping conversations alive is essential for progress in healthcare, and social media can play a prominent role. The post On MedHeads this week: How social media plays a role in the future of h...
The study results suggest it may be possible to link social media content to health outcomes. The post Healthcare social media researchers could learn a lot from startups, pharma appeared firs...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/healthcare-social-media-researchers-startups-pharma/
The hashtag #NoBraDay has been trending on social media. But it probably hasn’t produced the kind of result organizers had hoped for. The post #NoBraDay: When healthcare social media goes ter...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/nobraday-healthcare-social-media-wrong/
I’m not sure LinkedIn wants to be part of the conversation. Any conversation, really. The post How can LinkedIn participate in the healthcare conversation? appeared first on MedCity News .
https://medcitynews.com/2015/10/how-can-linkedin-participate-in-the-healthcare-conversation/
Some of the most active LinkedIn Groups in healthcare will move a lot of that conversation off the site. The post New LinkedIn Groups changes force its healthcare social media strategists to ch...
The first-ever CMIO tweet chat Thursday was intelligent and engaging, and the participants were enthusiastic. The post CMIOs: embrace artificial intelligence but don’t let machines rule the w...
A tiny arm? A second head? No, friend, meet the Flange. The post Google’s new life science project: Body parts appeared first on MedCity News .
https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/googles-new-life-science-project-body-parts/
Mothers commonly report receiving either no advice or recommendation inconsistent advice from each of the four sources we studied regarding immunization, breastfeeding, sleep position, sleep loc...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/keeping-patients-informed-care/
Too much hype will make it hard to take the real credit later on. The post Remember, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has done absolutely nothing (so far) appeared first on MedCity News .
https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/als-ice-bucket-challenge-has-done-absolutely-nothing/
If you are into health IT and digital health, you should follow these physicians on Twitter. The post MD Connect lists physicians on Twitter; Here are some more in health IT appeared first on ...
There has never been a more misleading term in business than social media. Healthcare executives have been trained to ask for the ROI of everything, but for some reason they put more focus on thi...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/08/the-roi-of-social-media-in-healthcare/
Does there need to be a universal patient identifier in the U.S.? Are efforts to promote population health and precision medicine aligned? Those are two of the questions taken up by participants...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/08/tweeters-sound-off-on-population-health-patient-id/
Yelp listings for more than 25,000 hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis clinics got a whole lot more useful, as the ratings site added data on such things as emergency room waiting times, readmi...
https://medcitynews.com/2015/08/yelp-healthcare-quality-er-wait-times/
Score another one for advocates of team-based care and for the power of social media. The post Study: Tweet chats motivate patients with breast cancer appeared first on MedCity News .
https://medcitynews.com/2015/07/study-tweet-chats-motivate-patients-with-breast-cancer/