By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Health and Medical Professionals I’m excited to be on the faculty again at this year’s 30th Annual Medical Communications Conference. This year I’ll be presenting two sessions. First, I’m thrilled that I’ll be speaking with Matthew Holt, founder of TheHealthCareBlog and co-founder of Health 2.0. We’ll be presenting: The Rise of the e-Patient and Implications of Social Media Health Care Content Engage and Educate the Health Consumer through Social…
Read More...Dr. Alan Greene at Health 2.0 Talks With Barbara Ficarra About Social Media and Participatory Medicine
I continue my interviews at Health 2.0 with Dr. Alan Greene and here you can watch the second part of the interview. I talk with Dr. Greene about social media and participatory medicine. Dr. Greene discusses physician attitudes towards increased patient engagement in health. [The next Health 2.0 conferences are Oct. 6-7, 2009 in San Francisco and April 6-7, 2010 in Paris]. Please Watch – Part 2 of 2
Read More...Dr. Alan Greene at Health 2.0 Talks with Barbara Ficarra About Patient Communities
I was thrilled to be part of the Health 2.0 meets Information Therapy (Ix) Conference. I conducted a series of interviews, and here you’ll find the first interview with Dr. Alan Greene. Dr. Greene discusses what Health 2.0 means and how it affects patients. Dr. Greene says that Health 2.0 is an exciting time in health care! Health 2.0 is “user generated health care, and when people are really well informed and take charge of…
Read More...Twitter Offers Web Presence for Doctors
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I asked Daniel Sands, MD, MPH, Director of Medical Informatics at Cisco IBSG and a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a few questions about twitter. 1. What value does tweeting health info bring to the public? By following tweets from health information sources that they trust, people can get general health tips, preventive health information, disease specific information, and even suggestions about to be more…
Read More...Why Doctors & Nurses Need Twitter
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I use Twitter and I like it. As a registered nurse, twitter helps me promote health and wellness and it helps me educate the public on vital health topics. It allows me to tweet about an upcoming radio show, link to informative websites and blogs, or retweet (RT) a tweet. I can read about the latest breaking health news, learn about the latest in health 2.0 and sometimes it…
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