Last week we had a webinar on social media marketing and more than 70 Medical Spa MD Members signed up. I'd expected somewhere from 10-15 so having 70+ surprised me somewhat.
Alex Panagiotopoulos of Freelance MD explains basic Twitter functions for physicians running medical spas, laser clinics, and cosmetic medical practices
Social media has been a hot topic in the business world, but many medical practices are still far behind in their implementation of it, if they're attempting it at all.
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Speranza Avram from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Center for Health Leadershipwrites tosay that they’rehosting a two-day conference on April 15-16 called 21st Century Tools for Health Leaders: Using New Media and Health Communication Technologies. New media tools including social media, blogs, digital storytelling, video, virtual communities, Twitter, mobile phones and more, are being effectively used to facilitate the management of health organizations, support health education and disease management, inform health research and promote health advocacy. We invite health leaders, practitioners, educators and students to join us. Early bird registration ends March 12! Click here for more information about the conference and to register on-line. Or watch the video.
Jacquineau Azétsop (Faculté de Médécine Teilhard de Chardin) and Stuart Rennie* (University of Cape Town & University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) have an outstanding new article forthcoming in Philosophy, Ethics& Medicine (full-text, open access) entitled Principlism, medical individualism, and health promotion in resource-poor countries: Can autonomy-based bioethics promote social justice and population health?
Here is the Abstract:
Social media is a major reason why traditional forms of media are collapsing across the country.
Longtime readers of MH Blog are likely familiar with my vexationregarding the typical features of the debate over prevention in context of health. Namely, the kind of prevention that interests me -- and, I believe, that is most firmly rooted in a compelling evidence base -- is generally not the kind of prevention that is wrangled over in the current "discourse" over health care reform. The kind of prevention that interests me relates to social policy, and involves creating or remediating existing conditions in ways thatwe have reason to believe will facilitate health over the lifespan. These kinds of social policies suggest intensive investment of resources extremely early in the lifespan, and therefore operate on a paradigm that is entirely different from the preventive services that occupy virtually all of the political discussion on the topic.
One of the more interesting and promisingnew journals out there has issued a call for papers for vol. 1, no. 3. Here is the Call:
We are calling for papers for Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology, Vol. 1 Nº 3 - April 2010.
Next deadline for submitting papers will be January 15, 2010.
Information for authors is available at the Information for authors section of our website. Any enquiries please contact us to submit@ea-journal.com.
My time off for good behavior is at an end and today I get back on a plane for four fun conferences and a party.
Wednesday I’m keynoting the ACHE Social Media in Healthcare meeting in San Antonio, TX and then will be moderating a couple of panels, one with two leaders in social media from outside health care and one with several hospital execs. Much more here, and well worth checking out if you’rean ACHE member or may want to become one.
