Social Media at HIMSS 2010
March 5, 2010
Social Media at the Annual Conference of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society has come a long way. A few years ago, the bloggers meetup was a dozen or so of us meeting in a bar near the conference site. This year, for the second time, there was a social media center and three panels of Meet the Bloggers. I was glad to be a part of it. Participatory Medicine was represented by ePatientDave discussing his new involvement with Kaiser. A busy twitter stream kept many informed of the concurrent activities. My round table with Deborah Kohn on Social Networking: Are You Listening, was well received. Another version of the slides are below. Some of the recommendations out of the session include:
- be prepared for dealing with complaints via social media by monitoring and having a plan on how to respond
- listen – monitor what people are saying about you
- consider social media in job recruitment
- support for launching social media in health care organizations must be endorsed from the top
- educating employees about social media can prevent abuse of the tools at work
Social Media Use Cases for Health Care
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Nice post John:
Perhaps the most innovative social media presence though omitted above was @DrVal and @doctoranonymous ‘BetterHealth’ channel broadcasts. You will find the tweets via both the #himss10 and #drval feeds.
The interviews are archived and can be accessed via http://doctweets.com/. There is a nice piece with @epatientDave as well.