Social Media as Healthcare’s Town Square

From hcldr.wordpress.com - Today, 10:54 AM

What a summer so far! At the speed of light, the world watches the Olympics as the epitome of sport while at the same time watching American politics turned on its head in a new paradigm (regardless of your political persuasions). What’s this have to do with Healthcare, Social Media, & Town Squares? Glad you asked!

WANDERING MIND AND HUMAN COGNITION by Giovanni Coglitore

From www.slideshare.net - Today, 10:53 AM

Quale responsabilità per il giornalista scientifico? - Luca De Fiore 

From dottprof.com - Today, 10:52 AM

Una via di mezzo tra informazione e intrattenimento: ecco cos’è la gran parte del giornalismo scientifico. Infotainment, scriveva Jalees Rehman sul Guardiantre anni fa: dalle posizioni più bizzarre dell’accoppiamento animale alle associazioni imprevedibili tra cibi e longevità o all’ennesima medicina miracolosa che – chissà perché – potremmo tranquillamente far crescere noi stessi sul balcone di casa.
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Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women - The Cochrane Library 

From onlinelibrary.wiley.com - Today, 10:52 AM

BackgroundSocial marketing interventions have been shown to both promote and change many health-related behaviours and issues. As the HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately affect MSM and transgender women around the world, social marketing interventions have the potential to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among these populations.

What Does Apomediation Mean?

From www.verywell.com - Today, 10:51 AM

What is Apomediation?Apomediation is a term used to describe using a person who facilitates your pursuit of information on the Internet. You are assisted in getting and understanding the information, but you are not required to go to a gatekeeper to get the information.
The prefix apo comes from the Latin for "to stand by." Mediation comes from the Latin mediare to "be in the middle." Put together, it is someone who stands by your side rather than someone who is standing between you and something as anintermediary would. Disintermediation is the term used for cutting out this middleman. Apomediation provides an expert who helps you when you directly access information.

Mayo Clinic's Social Media Guidelines. Mayo Clinic encourages professional and allied health staff to use social media tools appropriately and productively.

From www.youtube.com - Today, 10:51 AM

Mayo Clinic encourages professional and allied health staff to use social media tools appropriately and productively. This video, originally produced for Mayo's new employee orientation program, provides guidance on behavioral expectations as well as links and information from the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media on additional training resources available through its Social Media Health Network.

2016 State of the Connected Patient - White Papers

From mhealthintelligence.com - Today, 10:49 AM

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According to the ‘State of the Connected Patient’ report, modern technology plays a crucial role in addressing the challenge of delivering preventative care. 40% of patients surveyed in the report said they currently receive no preventative care recommendations from their physicians and 71% of millennial patients responded they would like to engage with their provider via a mobile app.

Did a Vitamin IV Make Me A Superhero?

From www.thedailybeast.com - Today, 10:54 AM

Wellness addicts are getting their nutrient fix through IV drips, bypassing the digestive system and flooding their cells with vitamins. Our correspondent rolled up her sleeve… “You have gorgeous veins,” said the woman giving me intravenous infusions of a detoxifying antioxidant which, she said, “whitens the skin from the inside out.”

#DigitalHealth  Digital Citizen - Giuseppe Fattori

From www.slideshare.net - Today, 10:53 AM

Come Eravamo: Prima mostra Filatelica sul tema Sanità - a cura di Loredana Masseria con la collaborazione di Riccardo Galetto - ASLTO1

From www.slideshare.net - Today, 10:52 AM

Lo Stato, ha utilizzato il mezzo di comunicazione più diffuso fino agli anni ’70, la Posta, da un lato per fare educazione e propaganda sanitaria, con una funzione quasi pedagogica; dall’altro come strumento di lotta contro le grandi emergenze sanitarie provenienti dalla società in evoluzione, come la droga, l’AIDS, l’incremento dei tumori e delle cardiopatie.

Government: investor, risk-taker, innovator - Mariana Mazzucato - TED Ideas worth spreading

From www.ted.com - Today, 10:52 AM

Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector -- the “real revolutionaries” -- innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it. In an energetic talk, she shows how the state -- which many see as a slow, hunkering behemoth -- is really one of our most exciting risk-takers and market-shapers.

Social Media & Healthcare in Ten Tweets

From www.slideshare.net - Today, 10:51 AM

Presentation at the 2016 Asian Medical Students' Conference of AMSA International, 30 June 2016.

Patient-Generated Health Data: A Strategic Ingredient to Reducing Readmissions

From www.himss.org - Today, 10:50 AM

More than half a billion dollars. That’s the recently released total for readmission penaltiesthe federal government will be withholding in Medicare payments from over half the nation’s hospitals in the coming year. In this type of environment, healthcare systems are scrambling to find new solutions to address post-discharge patient needs—both to proactively improve the quality of care and to decrease the financial ramifications of negative outcomes.