Too bad the Seattle Seahawks lost
Here's a tweet you normally don't see from a secretary of Health and Human Services:
Here's a tweet you normally don't see from a secretary of Health and Human Services:
What do people who consider themselves something other than fully male or female call themselves? That's not so easy, as a presenter at AMIA demonstrated.
Is anyone else as puzzled as we are about all these divergent viewpoints on health IT?
At least we now know that "other contact with crocodile" is a billable medical condition in ICD-10.
That's the message the Twitter stream tells from SHSMD Connections?, the annual conference of an American Hospital Association? branch called the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development?, or SHSMD.
The hashtag #NoBraDay has been trending on social media. But it probably hasn't produced the kind of result organizers had hoped for.
Share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health, healthcare navigation, and more.
The first-ever CMIO tweet chat Thursday was intelligent and engaging, and the participants were enthusiastic.
Mayo Clinic's Individualizing Medicine conference this week touched on many of the most important trends in precision medicine. Here they are, as explained in tweets.
After all, even in the middle of a storm, you have to make time for yourself, right?
In less than two minutes, we found two great sentiments on Twitter that security professionals didn't bother to raise in getting out their statements to the press about the Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield breach.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
There's been plenty of talk about patient-centeredness in healthcare, but the experience too often remains provider-centric. For an hour on Friday at least, the focus of the weekly health IT social media tweet chat (#HITsm) was squarely on the patient.
If you are into health IT and digital health, you should follow these physicians on Twitter.
Does there need to be a universal patient identifier in the U.S.? Are efforts to promote population health and precision medicine aligned? Those are two of the questions taken up by participants in #HCLDR, a weekly tweet chat on healthcare leadership.
Score another one for advocates of team-based care and for the power of social media.
While it's challenging to keep up to date with all the news in precision medicine, Twitter's a good place to get a constant stream of good information - if you know where to look. These Twitter users know a thing or two about precision medicine.