By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Engaging in social media networking by health care professionals continues to cause hesitation. Despite the uncertainty surrounding social media networking, nurses at Scripps Cancer Center in San Diego, CA embrace it. They decided to educate themselves for a deeper understanding of this powerful form of real-time communication. They are proactive and they step outside the box to gain knowledge to help them navigate through the social media networking maze….
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Part 1 By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Kevin Pho, MD, primary care physician in Nashua, N.H., blogs at KevinMD.com, member of USA TODAY’S board of contributors and a guest to the Health in 30® Radio Show, writes about the importance of doctors engaging in social media to communicate with patients. He writes in an op-ed in USA TODAY “Doctors ignore Internet at their own peril” on January 27, 2010: “Raise your hand if you’ve…
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
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