Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4-8 weeks:

Integration of Social Media in Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum - Annals of Emergency Medicine http://buff.ly/1CcfgM9

Collaborative Economy Honeycomb http://bit.ly/1zoBreN - Not many companies in healthcare/wellness...

Risks in Using Social Media to Spot Signs of Mental Distress - NYTimes http://nyti.ms/1xYFumq -- NIH committed $11 million to support studies into using Twitter and Facebook to better understand substance abuse. Classification algorithm predicts whether a person was vulnerable to depression, from their Twitter posts, 70% accurate. “We could compute the unhappiest places in the United States,” Dr. Horvitz said. Social media analysis might also eventually be used to identify patterns of post-traumatic stress disorder immediately after events like tsunamis or terrorist attacks. “You can see the prospect of watching a news story break and using these tools to map the pulse of society.”
ike Twitter and Facebook to better understand, prevent and treat substance abuse.

20 Blogging Tips for Writing a Successful Blog http://buff.ly/16Xsu5q

Facebook can leave you with FOMO (fear of missing out) or even MOMO (mystery of missing out)? http://bit.ly/13Pj0aj

The selfie trend has increased plastic surgery in the US. Almost all the smartphones launched in 2014 have special functions to take selfies. The #selfie trend spins money for businesses - all new phones have selfie-friendly front cameras and apps. Selfie stick, a must have gadget http://buff.ly/13JzPDm

An evidence-based review: Distracted driver http://buff.ly/1xCGg5U

Learn to Embrace the Digital Detox - WSJ guide. Digital Detox: Participants trade smartphones for smarter life choices: exercise, art and face-to-face conversation. People don’t think they are addicted to technology because it’s so ingrained in our everyday life. “People don’t often recognize the effect their behavior has on them and those around them" http://buff.ly/1BqNc6D

Good to know for all us here: No increased stress from heavier social media use: survey | Reuters http://buff.ly/1Busk21

Student class standing, Facebook use, and academic performance = "it's complicated" relationship status http://buff.ly/15ujBiH

Establishing an International Consensus on Quality of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Blogs and Podcasts http://buff.ly/1NCDSHn

Emergency Medicine Journal Club on Twitter: free, asynchronous way to engage a worldwide audience http://buff.ly/1aOsUfX

"A personal reflection on social media in medicine: I stand, no wiser than before" http://buff.ly/1IMgpNg -- “On your death bed, what do you think your biggest regret will be? … that you didn’t TWEET ENOUGH?”

The articles were selected from Twitter @DrVes and RSS subscriptions. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases at gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.



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Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:

Impact of Social Media on Dissemination of Research: close correlation between when I tweet the paper and downloads. Prior to me blogging and tweeting about the paper, it was downloaded twice. After, it immediately got 140 downloads http://buff.ly/1yf4ylW

Is It Okay to Choose a Children's Hospital Based on Social Media Presence? http://buff.ly/10mSLae - Apparently, yes, it works.

Self-organization on social media: endo-exo bursts and baseline fluctuations. http://buff.ly/10mTMzc - Twitter is an excitable medium

Naturally Occurring Peer Support through Social Media - Study of Individuals with Mental Illness Using YouTube http://buff.ly/10n1U2t

Online Mate-Retention Tactics on Facebook Are Associated With Relationship Aggression (study) http://buff.ly/1oC0Anl

Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information http://buff.ly/1DterO5

Reputation only: US News & World Report will use Doximity as sole source for physician surveys for "Best Hospitals" http://buff.ly/1ycubDy

The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It - mobile users spend 86% of their time on apps and only 14% on the Web - WSJ http://buff.ly/1xx4QHM

Blogging References for ACR 2014 Social Media Bootcamp http://buff.ly/1EUOnhs

A quick list to Social Media Guidelines for Medics: take your pick http://buff.ly/1qd7y2S

Improving your account security - advice from Google engineer Matt Cutts http://buff.ly/1pcewEs

How to active Find my iPad/iPhone http://buff.ly/1pcfjp4 -- Find my Android device http://buff.ly/1tdoiTo

We found a way how not to use social media, if you run a medical journal http://buff.ly/1xU6iEf

Make social media promotion a "standard of care." Here's how you prove it: Create social media posts for a study and include shortened links. Count the clicks on those links. If that number is greater than zero, the post increased article readership. http://buff.ly/1zRQgZh

The articles were selected from Twitter @DrVes and RSS subscriptions. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases at gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.



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Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:

'Like' Facebook's 'Year in Review' function? Many don't http://buff.ly/1rrmFpS - Facebook "Year in Review" feature highlights a larger digital design problem: Algorithms and code aren't intelligent, they just do what they're told.

Students distracted by electronic devices perform at the same level as those who are focused on the lecture http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279260?

Using social media offers a host of practical benefits to the modern academic or public intellectual. Look for Powerful tweets that supply original analysis, theoretical insight or historical context. On a basic level, Twitter gets people, including non-­traditional audiences, reading your work. Apply the “billboard test”: imagine that anything you tweet is going to be put up on a sign for the world to see. http://buff.ly/1s3XRUh

Dr. Jeffrey B. Matthews, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Chicago: "I would have ZERO trouble convincing our promotions committee that a high visibility blog with high traffic views that had evidence of thought leadership in the public domain would qualify as high impact and outstanding. And that is at the University of Chicago." What do you think of the University of Chicago's progressive stance? Have any other schools taken such steps? http://buff.ly/1BPmIuP

'Instagram for doctors' to be launched in Europe http://buff.ly/1BPpiAS - Will be just as successful as "Facebook for doctors", etc.

Could you be a star blogger or vlogger? The Guardian features successful bloggers, still in high school http://buff.ly/1qwGchr

Utility of a dermatology interest group blog at University of Texas http://buff.ly/1sDvWLa

Ebola, Twitter, and misinformation: a dangerous combination? | The BMJ http://bit.ly/1xXmvFA

The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant Tiwtter profile and publication record for scientists http://buff.ly/1sOwlZP

Orthopedic patients who use social media have researched their condition prior to visit and travel longer to clinic http://buff.ly/1vze8kj

Uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction http://buff.ly/1vzeF5B "Some addicts use it to escape from negative moods"

Digital Junk: Food and Beverage Marketing on Facebook http://buff.ly/1vzeW8L - Food brands are hyperactive on Facebook...

The articles were selected from Twitter @DrVes and RSS subscriptions. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases at gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.

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Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:

Social media and physicians: Exploring the benefits and challenges. http://buff.ly/1yNZ0iV

Are You Tweeting Away Your Relationship? http://buff.ly/1mN0rqH -- Imagine you invested 50 min a day actively listening to your loved ones.

Will the internet eat your brain? A neuroscientist warns Digital Technologies are Leaving their Mark on our Brains. The scientist is worrying that smartphones and social networks are sucking users into an unsatisfying digital facsimile of reality, frying their memories, atrophying their social skills and generally rotting their brains http://econ.st/1q9ENSr

Family Dinners May Buffer the Effects of Cyberbullying http://buff.ly/1w4ynog

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Health and Medicine: Review of what is available http://buff.ly/YacKI4

The majority of You-Tube videos purporting to be about CPR are not relevant educational material http://buff.ly/Yad1L6

9 online safety tips every parent should do for their children - Never ban technology, Set up parental controls from the router and more http://buff.ly/Wbaz5s

Have You Checked Your Online Rating as a Pediatrician? If You Haven’t, Your Patients Probably Have! http://buff.ly/YeY9du

From Blogging to Tweeting to Facebook: researchers can share their successes and see what resonates with the public http://buff.ly/1DS9UHV

To earn money, many professional bloggers have had to embrace sponsored content, breeding distrust among readers. Advertising rates have dropped significantly because advertisers are flooded with options. http://nyti.ms/1BxVBEw

Surgeons are less engaged with social media than other Health Care Professionals http://buff.ly/ZpM7zq

Patients' search for online diagnoses not useful - Fewer than 5% of doctors felt it was helpful http://buff.ly/1tlx699

Google's Eric Schmidt: Medicine will expand its noninvasive technological capabilities, to a point where a transdermal patch might pick up on symptoms before the person does, such as early signs of Alzheimer's, or a troubled heartbeat. "Your phone will call you and say, 'You're going to die, and you need to go to the hospital," Schmidt said. "Then it will call the hospital and say, 'He's coming in 10 minutes" - Cleveland Plain Deale http://buff.ly/1uH6Lbi

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Why use Twitter - tips from Mayo Clinic's social media director

In this video, Dr. Timimi discusses the quiet revolution of Twitter in healthcare, including how it can be used in practice and in education. Of time spent online in the US, one in six minutes is spent in a social network. Of the popular social networks, Twitter is one of the best introductory platforms, with one in five adult Internet users in the United States maintaining a presence on Twitter.

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Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:

15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging: Link to everything you create elsewhere on the web. And if possible, save a copy of it on your own blog. Things disappear so quickly, and even important work can slip your mind months or years later when you want to recall it. If it's in one, definitive place, you'll be glad for it.

Always write with the idea that what you're sharing will live for months and years and decades. Having a long-term perspective in mind is an incredibly effective tool for figuring out whether a topic is meaningful or not, and for encouraging a kinder, more thoughtful perspective.

Your blog can change your life in a month. If you want to understand an idea, or become a meaningful voice on a topic, or change your own thinking about a concept, write a little bit about it every day for a month.

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Too many crying babies: a systematic review of pain management practices during immunizations on YouTube http://buff.ly/1j4PHaz

Unprofessional behavior is prevalent among surgical residents who use Facebook (study) http://buff.ly/1j4POCV

Support network: People discussing their weight loss are happier with Twitter (more support, less negativity) than Facebook and in-person relationships http://buff.ly/1j4PUKK

A Facebook teaching forum was set up in a London Hospital for undergraduate medical students: 92% approved http://buff.ly/1j4QacM

Why Wikipedia matters for healthcare: it dominates search results for medical information - BMJ http://buff.ly/1vOMP1Y

YouTube as a source of patient information for lumbar discectomy. http://buff.ly/1qLVd4m

The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor http://buff.ly/TP1v4K

Email Alerts Services You Should Use http://buff.ly/TP2yBC

Are You Tweeting Your Marriage Away? Time spent on social media can create friction in relationships (study) http://buff.ly/1ooRKmc

Twitter: an opportunity for public health campaigns : The Lancet http://buff.ly/U7drPJ

Do you "like" my photo? Facebook use may increase eating disorder risk http://buff.ly/WqD284

Cleveland Clinic has a blog for patients - Health Hub http://buff.ly/1yHsRtt and a blog for physicians - Consult QD http://buff.ly/1yHsr6g

The articles were selected from Twitter @DrVes and RSS subscriptions. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases at gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.

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