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#HCSM Review Call for Submissions
We’re hosting HealthCare Social Media Review here next week, and our theme is: “Building Evidence for a Future of Open and Connected Healthcare.” My premise is simple: Patients need other patients for...
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Set-it-and-forget-it Social Learning Tools via MyPubMed
I took the time a few years ago to set up a series of saved searches using PubMed. The fact that I was able to do this quite effectively despite not being a medical librarian plus having to navigate...
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Building Evidence for a Future of Open and Connected Healthcare – #HCSM...
“…with no centralized control, someone in Greece connected with people in New Hampshire and Illinois, and got a paper written in New Jersey sent to a conference in Austria. All within 30 minutes, and...
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Why have we struggled so hard to improve healthcare quality?
There are many incredible efforts under way to drive needed change throughout the healthcare system. I love what Christensen and Hwang have proposed in Innovator’s Prescription. I have much respect for...
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Ireland stakes its claim as a hotbed of healthcare innovation – #DOTMED...
It was an absolute thrill to kick off the inaugural #dotmed conference this past Friday. I was joined by nearly a dozen speakers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs from around Ireland and around the world...
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What are the 5 skills you need to be ‘digitally’ empowered in your healthcare?
The emergence of new channels for learning and collaboration allows us to move from the information-seeking behaviors of the 20th century to evolve new skills for information seeking and communication...
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Our Top Twelve in 2012: The #socialQI Posts of The Year
As we begin to plan to make 2013 our most successful year ever, it is critical we take the time to reflect on the success of 2012. We must ask ourselves what worked, and why. And, we must confront...
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What is the evidence that supports the emerging #HCSM revolution?
I just received some great news from the editors at the Journal Of Medical Informatics Research: “.@BrianSMcGowan Your paper is actually the most viewed paper of the year – second most tweeted – it...
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Social networks lead to innovation and healthcare quality = Case Closed.
I have spent the better part of the past year describing within the posts on this blog how we should be thinking beyond social media to understand the value of the connections. I have suggested that we...
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#HCSM Review 33: Social Media and Rapid Learning in Healthcare
For nearly a decade there have been some great efforts made to support the idea of a ‘rapid-learning healthcare system.’ This is a term and an idea that predates social media, but it is an idea that is...
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