Monthly Archives: September 2009
Cool Twitter Conference Boston
Yesterday I attended and presented at one of the Cool Twitter Conferences at the Harvard Club in Boston. Arranged by @bobfine, it was an intimate conference in which I got a chance to meet and learn from a diverse group … Continue reading
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66 Ominous Predictions About Twitter in Healthcare
Is Twitter safe and effective? Several years ago, as a second-career registered nurse practicing critical care – having a prior background in enterprise working with fairly sophisticated information technologies – it was all too easy for me get frustrated with … Continue reading
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Priming Healthcare for Twitter
I led a web conference today in which I gave an overview of Twitter and its uses in health care. It seems that Healthcare and Pharma are starting to express an earnest interest in using Twitter to help patients and … Continue reading
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Power Dynamics & Virtual Health: Protecting Professional Boundaries in an Unbounded Web
Virtual Health – however that’s defined – has become a hot topic lately, especially in light of the rapidly evolving two-way real-time Web. Power dynamics – the interplays between patient and provider – must be protected in order to safeguard … Continue reading
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How Candles & Tacks Can Help Us Re-Think Economics, Healthcare & Everything Else
Daniel Pink recently gave a TED talk about the insights into motivation gleaned from new research into the Candle Problem (read up on it before continuing). Functional Fixedness is a common problem with the way our brains are wired. The … Continue reading
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