Health 2.0 Conference - Social Netwoks
In a session on social networking for health care, one of the conclusions was that physicians and pharma should monitor these sites as a way of understanding the patient experience including how they react to treatments. They should not necessarily participate, unless the site includes physician participation, such as, medhelp.org, but just monitor these sites. Of course this applies to all medical professionals.
The sites presented were:
The sites presented were:
- sophiasgarden.org
- PatientsLikeMe.com
- DailyStrength.org
- OrganizedWisdom.com
- Inspire.com
- MedHelp.org
- Diabetesmine.com
Our approach at OrganizedWisdom is to have a community of physicians participate by reviewing each WisdomCard (our content) to make sure that the quality is great and the links and resources are credible and appropriate. We are trying to build a search service that both patients and physicians would want to recommend to their friends and family. We think it is important to physicians to participate online in health communities because so many of their patients are doing so. This will help improve quality overall and bring doctors closer to their patients.
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