By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA The top posts on Healthin30 include topics on social media in health care, patient engagement, importance of teamwork in medicine, and healthy living. Thank you for your insightful comments, tweets and postings to Facebook. — Social Media: Medical Social Networking – Part 2 [24 Comments 117 Tweets] This is a comprehensive post that delves into medical professionals, patients and hospitals engaging in Social Media. I give examples of medical…
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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Medical Professionals Engaging in Social Media A Comprehensive Guide Part Two In Part One, I talked with Dr. Marc Siegel about Medical Social Networking on FOX NEWS Live. I wish we had more time; the edited segment is 6 minutes and 17 seconds. Social Media and Medical Professionals In this post, “Social Media: Medical Social Networking – Part 2,” I give examples of medical professionals and hospitals engaging in…
Read More...Social Media: Barbara Ficarra on FOX News Live Talks About Medical Social Networking
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Social networking and health care Part One Medical Professionals are using social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and You Tube to engage patients in their health. They are using it to provide accurate information to help educate patients and to help empower them to be proactive and take charge of their health. I joined Dr. Marc Siegel, host of FOX NEWS to talk about how medical professionals and patients…
Read More...Power of Social Media: How the Medical Community is Embracing Social Media for Better Patient Care and Patient Engagement
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Social Media is exploding in the health care arena, and social media is a powerful and phenomenal platform for engaging patients. Social Media is transforming health care today, and connecting people in real-time. Social Media is one of the best ways to engage patients. Social Media is about connection, collaboration, community and patient engagement. Doctors, nurses, other health professionals and the medical community communicate health information in a transparent…
Read More...A Patient’s Journey with Heart Failure
By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Q & A with Mary Knudson Mary Knudson, a patient, health journalist and author, shares a glimpse into her journey with heart failure. Mary Knudson was diagnosed with heart failure in 2003. She knew something wasn’t quite right. She became very short of breath and fatigued from walking from one room to another in her home. After being diagnosed with heart failure, she was frightened. “I thought the diagnosis…
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