Health Care and Social Media: Establishing your digital presence as a physician… where to begin?  I am very happy to receive a lot of requests from physicians to assist them in establishing a digital presence.  This is a huge step — in the right direction.  Where do you start? How?  Your social media strategy as a healthcare… Read More

Health Care and Social Media… a video blog 4 #hcsm beginners Many physicians and other health care professionals are just starting to consider entering the intersection of health care and social media. Many will need guidance and support… and some will have some very basic questions which I hope this video addresses.   Your only… Read More

Guest Post by:  Marc Chasin, M.D., MMM, CPE It has been almost a decade since the last time I sat down to write about the impact of the smartphone on patient care at the bedside.  In 2001, as I discussed in an article in Family Practice Management, http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0600/p50.html, cutting edge technology was the Handspring Visor.   Epocrates… Read More

This was a busy week for those of us on the forefront of trying to functionally bridge health care and social media.  The intersection of the two is *appearing* difficult to *safely* navigate.    The LA Times article created quite a buzz on the social media scene.  It was a rather melodramatic portrayal of an issue caused… Read More

Instead of focusing on treating him, an employee said, St. Mary nurses and other hospital staff did the unthinkable: They snapped photos of the dying man and posted them on Facebook. via latimes.com   What can you say about an article like this? I bet there is not a single physician or nurse who are… Read More