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Social media and health care reform

Sherrilynne Starkie

In the era of health care reform, hospitals need to figure out how to do more and more, with less. Social media can play an important role in patient care, patient support, health research, education, training, advocacy, and more. Can social media help ease the way to health care reform?

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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

They generally start with patients sharing experiences and information with each other, so they can learn more about their disease, treatment opportunities and how to best balance managing the disease with living their life. Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional.

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Back to the workplace? Lori Mihalich-Levin on the #MindfulSocial podcast

Janet Fouts

About Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD Lori is the founder and CEO of Mindful Return , Author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return From Maternity Leave , and co-host of the Parents at Work Podcast. She is mama to two wonderful red-headed boys (ages 9 and 11) and is a health care lawyer in private practice.

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How to Survive this Crisis

Proactive Report

Create a free booklet on how to strengthen the immune system to cope with infection and viruses. Ulan Nutritional Systems launched a nutrition coaching course for health care practitioners that can be delivered via online meetings. Pivot to online services that your audience can do while they’re staying home.

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

Hootsuite

They clarify what types of information are protected: Health information: “Relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual.”

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

Here are three social media obstacles health care providers face and the underlying opportunities each present. Obstacle: Understandably, many health care professionals may avoid using social media for fear of violating regulations like HIPPA.

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Branding You: using social media to find a job

Sherrilynne Starkie

My short presentation focused on how to use social media for job search. I gave a brief overview on how recruiters use social media to source applicants and advertise vacancies. Then I provided some advice on how to stand out online. Related posts: Social media in health care. I’ve posted my slides below.