The Internet was abuzz Wednesday evening after ESPN pro football reporter Adam Schefter tweeted a photo of a medical record supposedly showing that New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul had had a finger amputated.
Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) introduced a new bill to make pharmaceutical marketing more present and transparent on social media outlets like Twitter.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
BuzzFeed discusses how analysis of social media and Internet search habits has proven so useful in identifying public health outbreaks and other trends.
Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and pharmaceutical giant Merck are mining Twitter to produce a "digital phenotype" as a baseline for identifying people suffering from sleep disorders.
This comic parodies a popular Nature paper on the impact of social media on academics and research. Twitter helps 'em avoid paying attention during boring meetings. And gossip. Sound familiar?
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At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The combination of social media and mobility are changing how people consume information, and healthcare marketers should take notice.
Twitter is emerging as another tool for predictive analytics in healthcare. By collecting and mapping the location of tweets with keywords such as "asthma," "inhaler" and "wheezing," mining the EHR at Parkland Memorial Hospital, then comparing to air-quality reports in the Dallas area, researchers were able to predict asthma-related emergency department traffic with 75 percent accuracy.
The use of Twitter in healthcare has already shown beneficial uses in tracking risk for heart disease and for medical research, but a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that tweets are also associated with an increase in state-level enrollment in health insurance marketplaces established under the […]
While healthcare practitioners ponder the best way to incorporate social media into their lives or practices, Twitter may be a useful tool in gauging both feedback from consumers and for furthering research, according to a recent study. The study, from the University of British Columbia, found that over a six-month period, English-language tweets from a […]
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The use of social media in healthcare is evolving, with providers still largely trying to figure out how it can be applied to healthcare settings and patients. But it turns out that Twitter, and the language used on it, may be a good predictor of coronary heart disease, according to a new study in Psychological Science. […]
Lots of great discussions at today’s Health 2.0 WinterTech conference on consumer technology in healthcare. Here’s a snapshot by way of Twitter. Doctor on Demand vs http://t.co/Ak6WTmMyv9 -do you need a doctor if you have an app extension of ur doctor? #wintertech #jmp15 #health2con… — Douglas Goldstein (@eFuturist) January 15, 2015 @health2con #wintertech @design_concepts wearables […]
It seems pretty spot on. Compiled by Jenna Dobkin, commissioned by NEMUS Biosciences:
Our lives get busy, and it always seems like there’s another thing we should or are supposed to be doing that we aren’t already. Twitter is one of those things for a lot of people. Sure you have a Facebook account and you set up a LinkedIn profile, but that’s just not enough. Not only do […]
Not sure how this made it through proofreading, peer review, and copyediting. Via http://t.co/sWaswaM2X4 #addedvalue pic.twitter.com/8krLlvthAr — Dave Harris (@davidjayharris) November 10, 2014 In case you missed it, Will Oremus over at Slate tells the story behind the tweet: The blooper was picked up by Retraction Watch, which contacted both the authors and the publisher for comment. […]