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30 June 2010Social media has especially gained a great deal of popularity amongst the healthcare community in the past year. If you’re not actively involved in social media as a business, or as an individual, it’s not too late to learn and participate and reap the rewards of the connections and impact social media can help you achieve.
Social media could revolutionize the healthcare industry in a number of ways: healthcare recruitment, hospital marketing, patient/provider communication, public health communication, clinical trials, and more.
Therefore, in honor of “Social Media Day” today, we have assembled 20 of the greatest healthcare social media resources in one post for quick reference! The goal was to create the most comprehensive lists of resources for hospital administrators and physicians, especially those seeking to advance their skills in social media, whether it be blogging, networking on LinkedIn or other online communities, tweeting, podcasting, apps, or videos. Keep in mind, there are LOTS of great healthcare sites and blogs out there, but these are the ones that provide a great deal of information specifically on healthcare social media and related topics.
Top Healthcare Social Media Blogs and Websites:
- Found in Cache – written by Ed Bennett – a web administrator for a large academic medical center.
- 33 Charts – by Dr. Bryan Vartabedian
- Medical Smartphones and Medicine & Technology – by Dr. Joseph Kim
- Healthcare Communications & Social Media
Top Articles & Posts: Tips & Directories for Utilizing Social Media in Healthcare
- Hospital Social Network List – includes all social media sites, blogs, and websites for hundreds of hospitals nationwide.
- Healthcare Professionals’ Social Media Directory – List of clinicians and industry professionals with all their social media contacts.
- Social Networking Sites & Online Communities for Healthcare Professionals - from About.com
- Social Media – Healthcare Careers & Medical Job Search – Tips on LinkedIn, Twitter, etc for healthcare professionals
- Social Media “Primer” for Physicians – by Dr. Westby Fisher
- Social Media in a Hospital – by Hospital CEO Paul Levy
- Healthcare Fundraising with Social Media - from the MGMA blog
- Recent Readings on Social Media in Medicine – from GetBetterHealth.com
Great Healthcare SocMed Twitter Feeds:
- Dr. V - physician who often tweets and blogs about social media and healthcare
- Ed Bennett - web manager for academic medical center
- Dr. Joseph Kim - tweets about smartphone apps and medical technology from physician’s perspective
- HealthSocMed - tweets all about healthcare social media, plus weekly chat
- Gregg Masters - former managed care executive
- Lee Aase – Social Media manager for Mayo Clinic
So there are 19 links for you, all about healthcare and social media. But you were promised 20! So #20 is up to you – what should be the other link on this list? Please add it below!
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December 30th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I recommend adding Emory Healthcare’s blog http://advancingyourhealth.org
It combines blogs from across the Emory Healthcare system making for one of the most comprehensive health blogs I’ve found thus far. Emory Healthcare is an academic system, so there are some great posts about new research being done at Emory. They also have posts written by doctors and patients.
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