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Social Networking

Examples, please: peer-to-peer healthcare

June 27, 2011 By Susannah Fox 83 Comments

I’m writing an article and would love to tap into this community’s knowledge. I know of a few examples of clinical practices using Facebook and Twitter to connect with patients, such as MacArthur OB/GYN, but I’d love to learn about other examples, especially ones which use social networking tools to connect patients and caregivers with […]

Filed Under: net-friendly docs, patient networks Tagged With: asthma, Behavior Change, Bonus Points, caregivers, Clinical Practices, Clinicians, Facebook, Health Groups, High Blood Pressure, Macarthur, National Organization For Rare Disorders, Networking Tools, Notoriety, Ob Gyn, Peer To Peer, Population Level, Powerful Resources, Social Networking, Twitter, Weight Watchers, Writ

ISO: Randomized Trials–Susannah Fox

April 13, 2011 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

I received an email the other day containing the following question: Are you aware of any randomized trials – in progress, or published – that examined the impact of social networking web 2.0, etc. on patient-level variables (e.g., improved rates of preventive health care, cancer screening, diabetes care, etc)? My answer: I haven’t done a […]

Filed Under: found on the net Tagged With: Cancer Screening, diabetes, Diabetes Care, email, Health Org, Innovations, Innovators, Iso, Literature Search, Networking Web, Ocs, Patient Level, Preventive Health Care, Randomized Trials, Researcher, Social Networking, Variables

What can surgeons learn from patients?

September 22, 2010 By Susannah Fox 29 Comments

I’m going to be on a panel at the American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress on October 5 in Washington, DC. The session title is pretty provocative: To Tweet or Become Extinct?: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Social Networking and my part of it uses the “e” word that I recently tried to […]

Filed Under: pts as teachers Tagged With: Alice Tolbert Coombs, American College of Surgeons, Catherine deVries, Howard Luks, KevinMD, participatory medicine, Social Networking, surgery

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