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What Hospitals Are Doing in Social Media – Update to Social Media Case Studies Superlist

by Robin Broitman

We just learned about the Hospital Social Network List maintained by hospital manager Ed Bennett. The list  currently has over 185 hospitals with links to their official blog, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube sites. It’s now included in our Social Media Case Studies Superlist.

For those interested in Health 2.0, here are a couple of other interesting resources we’re aware of:

  • Twitter and Health 2.0

    • From Viz Edu: Slide show demonstrating how twitter can be used in healthcare.

  • 140 Healthcare uses for Twitter

    • From Phil Baumann Online: Offers a list of 140 interesting and some innovative health care uses for Twitter.

  • The Health 2.0 Wiki

    • The Health 2.0 Wiki has been set up as a service to the community of visionaries, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, policy makers, and professionals who are working on fundamentally redefining the healthcare industry along the lines of “Web 2.0.”  Range of resources including list of health portals and online health communities.

  • Top Health 2.0 Web Apps

    • From Read Write Web: Overview of leading web-based apps and services for the healthcare sector.

  • Top 50 Health 2.0 Blogs

    • From RNCentral.com: A list of health 2.0 blogs- from popular medical websites such as WebMD and Healthline to patient and doctor blogs.

March 9th, 2009

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  • 1 Barbara Hansen Mar 13, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    Robin

    Interesting set of resources. Social media will become more viable as a patient-interaction tool for healthcare (beyond marketing, PR and customer service) when health insurance reimburses a physicians activities. We all remember the discussion (and the companies created to “cash in” on the physician/patient e-communication “gold rush”) in the late 90′s about physicians interacting with patients via email. All good ideas, but it took health insurance companies paying physicians to interact that e-tool into their practice for most physicians to embrace email as a regular part of their practice. We’ll have to wait to see what happens as new social media tools comes crashing through the development gates and how quickly the health insurance companies start to embrace them. I happen to be a huge fan of Twitter – use it daily – and i can see many advantages to healthcare with many of the new and new-ish social media tools on the market today.