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What are the ethics of crowdsourcing a diagnosis?
Posted on July 30th, 2012 by Mark Ryan, MD
Editor’s Note: Mark Ryan, M.D., is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. About a month ago, I received a request from one of my practice partners. They are working with a patient with a number of chronic, hard-to-treat medical illnesses that may or may not be part of a [...]
Balancing Social with Serious: One Doctor’s Prescription to Avoid Overload
Posted on July 25th, 2012 by Mark Ryan, MD
Editor’s Note: Mark Ryan, M.D., is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. This post was originally published on the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Blog, July 10 2012. ——————– In a previous post, I made an argument as to why physicians should be involved in social media—especially on Twitter. [...]
Why be involved in social media?
Posted on July 18th, 2012 by Mark Ryan, MD
Editor’s Note: Mark Ryan, M.D., is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. When I speak with fellow physicians about my social media activity (blogging on this site and on my personal blog, Twitter, Tumblr, etc), I am often met with skepticism. Why should we bother? What is the point? [...]
Building a Process to Accept Feedback From Your Social Media Audience
Posted on March 26th, 2012 by Admin
Source: etsy.com via Nick on Pinterest Editor’s Note: Nick Dawson, is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. So, you have a Facebook timeline for your hospital and you’ve been tweeting since before all those celebrities joined. You have wrangled through the legal concerns and assuaged senior leaders. You are on your way to health [...]
Guiding Principles for Physician Use of Social Media
Posted on March 13th, 2012 by Admin
Editor’s Note: Mark Ryan, M.D., is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” — Bertolt Brecht In two prior posts, I have discussed the issue of professionalism and social media. These [...]
Pinterest for Heath is a Beautiful Thing . . . Literally
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by Admin
Editor’s Note: Meredith Gould, PhD, is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. From zero to gazillion miles per hour in weeks — that’s how quickly Pinterest, the latest social media platform has caught on. First adopted by artists, photographers, crafters, and do-it-yourselfers, Pinterest has swiftly captured the attention [...]
Something Old, Something New
Posted on March 2nd, 2012 by Admin
Samizdat refers to self-published texts, first described in post-Stalin USSR. Political activist Vladimir Bukovsky defined the term best as “I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and get imprisoned for it.” Although it was originally used to refer to written text, many versions of samizdat have since been described, including [...]
Mayo Clinic 2011 Operational Performance Report
Posted on February 23rd, 2012 by Admin
Webcast: DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({domain:”mayo.web.entriq.net”, playerInstanceID:”9FF671C3-46D8-15B9-9836-5FD87066E8CE”, articleID:”5989″, videoWidth:”640″, videoHeight:”480″, maintainAspectRatio:”true”}); The webcast will discuss Mayo’s commitment to strategic initiatives designed to meet patients’ evolving needs by: • Reinvesting millions of dollars in capital projects over the next five years • Creating higher than average job growth over the next three to five years • Improving quality of care [...]
Social Media, a Good Marriage
Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Admin
My interest in social media in part reflects lessons I have learned from my involvement in Patient-Family Advisory Councils (PFAC). PFACs represent a group of patients and family members who meet on schedule, to provide input regarding policies and procedures that apply to medical care. They are, in essence, an articulate, committed and educated focus [...]
Medicine 5.0: Connectedness and Integrity Can Revitalize Healthcare
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by Admin
Editor’s Note: Matt Katz, M.D., is a member of the External Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic center for Social Media. Humanism in medicine has not flourished in the last century to keep up with scientific advances that leave us perplexed and sometimes wounded. By moving back toward the connectedness between health care providers and patients that existed [...]