Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

Health Check: How Trusted Is Your Corporate Blog?

December 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 16%
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Blog growth slows; more bloggers are bringing home the bacon

November 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 17%
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Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008

November 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 17%
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  • Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 – Annual State of the Blogosphere Report From Technorati. It looks like they are changing the measurement of blog growth (or stopping to measure it), but there are less daily postings now than there were in 2007.

We Love DC » Blog Archive » Metro Says No to Bloggers

October 21st, 2008 | Popularity: 13%
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  • We Love DC » Blog Archive » Metro Says No to Bloggers – "It only looks worse when you turn people away." A lesson from one of our nation's best public transit systems about the impact of making distinctions that don't make sense to the public about what you will share. Lots of analogies in health care (of course)

Health Affairs Blog: Mark Leavitt “not magical just practical”

August 22nd, 2008 | Popularity: 27%
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Health Affairs Blog: Health IT Initiatives: Not Magical, Just Practical

Thoughtful quasi-blogpost* from Mark Leavitt, MD, who is also the Chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT). In the post, Mark very nicely acknolwedges the number of dedicated volunteers in the CCHIT process – I know from experience that this group is working hard and is very talented (way more than I am).

*the quasi part is that I notice that the Health Affairs blog appears (to me anyway) as more of a Web 1.0 publication with comments, than a blog in the spirit of blogs. It might be nice to tweak the HTML title tags a bit for easier embedding into other blogs, and maybe shorter, more personal posts, in the spirit of blogging. I think Health Affairs has been on the leading edge to adopt the blog format in the first place to be sure, now perhaps they could go a little farther to support interaction with the people in health policy in a more behind the curtain way…

Contrasting Personal vs. Professional Uses of Social Media: The Case of Healthcare Blogging | Trusted.MD Network

August 13th, 2008 | Popularity: 15%
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Content of Weblogs Written by Health Professionals. [J Gen Intern Med. 2008] – PubMed Result

August 4th, 2008 | Popularity: 19%
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Content of Weblogs Written by Health Professionals. [J Gen Intern Med. 2008] – PubMed Result

This is a timely analysis of the content of blogs written by health professionals, by a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. It is great to see that the RWJ Foundation (indirectly) would be studying the ways that tomorrow’s physicians will communicate. The article indicates that violations of patient privacy are rare, and suggests training of health professionals in this realm.

I agree with both, because health professionals should learn how to blog well, which really means they would learn to communicate well.

This would also mean, by the way, that I disagree with the creation of this headline about the study: Health Care Provider Blogs Do Not Maintain Anonymity, Study Says. My takeaway from this is that there is still a tendency to paint blogs in the negative within the health care press. That will change.

It is also not lost on me that the author has chosen a gmail address to be contacted, maybe blog and Twitter URL’s will follow in the world of PubMed….

Mobile applications for illness managment; Historical Scientific Misconduct; A Good LEAN Summary

May 21st, 2008 | Popularity: 65%
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May 10th through May 13th:

Reflecting on my physician blogging 2005-2008

April 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 35%
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I am in Oakland, California, today, participating in an discussion sponsored by Kaiser Permanente about Web 2.0 applications in health care. As part of the discussion I presented my story as a physician who wrote a blog internally for our medical group, and since October, 2007, on the public Internet (here).

From 2005-2007 I managed an internal blog that ended up having 748 posts total, so for 2 years, I posted something almost every business day, along with other physician informaticists on my team with me. That’s quite a commitment. This blog has 298 posts on it since October, 2007. I actually never thought I’d keep a blog, but I’m (a) glad I’m doing it and (b) glad I have a story to share about it as a Health Information Technology leader. I want people to know how I am serving them.

I also got to moderate/interact with two industry experts in the field, Tim Collins, SVP of Experiential Marketing for Wells Fargo Bank, and Lee Aase, Manager for Syndication and Social Media for the Mayo Clinic. It’s an honor to meet other industry leaders who are embracing this technology, and they are embracing it. I know this is the future (or the present…)

Given my experience, the idea of patients bringing their user generated content into the physician patient relationship really interests me. Could an electronic health record of the future subscribe to specially tagged RSS feeds from our patients? I don’t think physicians can or would be following 2,000 lives worth of lifestreams. However, if there’s something in a patient’s life that they want us to know about and can get it to us without double entry, I think that information would change the content of our relationship a lot. And in a good way.

Efficiency Improvers for Mac users; Aetna’s Smartsource Demo; Wordpress upgrade on the way

April 1st, 2008 | Popularity: 79%
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Challenging Peer Review (on several fronts); Consumerism in Health Survey 2007; Accepting suggestions from Customers using Web 2.0 at Starbucks

March 30th, 2008 | Popularity: 77%
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March 28th through March 29th:

  • WordPress ? Search and Replace « WordPress Plugins – Wordpress 2.5 is out. I have a feeling this plugin will be useful to have handy
  • JAMA — Preserving Confidentiality in the Peer Review Process, March 24, 2008, DeAngelis and Thornton 0 (2008): 299.16.jed80000 – With tremendous respect for Catherine DeAngelis’ leadership during a tough situation. I am left wondering if the best place to hide is out in the open – if peer review became more Web2.0 like. What would happen in a situation like this?
  • Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey – EBRI – About 2 percent of the population is enrolled in a consumer directed health plans. Significant points for me: (1) almost half of the population with a chronic condition reports not filling medications or skipping doses or delaying care due to cost. Sobering reminder that patients can and do choose to do what we doctors prescribe. (2) “There have been no significant gains int he provision of information on provider cost and quality by any health plan type over the three years of the survey. There has been no increase in the share of CDHP or HDHP enrollees who say their health plans provide them with quality and cost information about their providers, and they remain no more likely to receive such information than enrollees in more comprehensive plans.” Okay, one more point – they did not ask about the impact of involvement in care in choosing a health plan – no mention of medical records access or involvement in information sharing at the level of the encounter.
  • My Starbucks Idea – How about doing this for a health care org?
  • Bronson Beta – Mail.appetizer – Nice Mail notification tool, Leopard

LEAN Hospital and Public Comments; The Unconference Concept; The State of Agile (LEAN Software Development)

March 18th, 2008 | Popularity: 37%
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March 14th through March 17th:

Industry Disruption; Managing Information using Web2.0; Jobs and Portability

January 2nd, 2008 | Popularity: 34%
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I’m starting to track the disruption of other industries, like music and real estate….

December 29th through December 31st:

First recorded spam; Physician Blogs; Enjoying culture of DC Neighborhoods; Empowering staff; LEAN definitions

December 24th, 2007 | Popularity: 44%
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December 24th:

Edelman Trust Barometer; A GenY-friendly Employer; Mike Leavitt’s Blog discussion on the SGR

December 21st, 2007 | Popularity: 54%
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December 16th through December 18th:

Blog commentary, an idea for a Wellness Trust, Employers sponsoring less insurance

December 13th, 2007 | Popularity: 25%
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December 4th through December 10th:

Al and Dawn, Homeless at Starbucks – Raw Fisher

December 10th, 2007 | Popularity: 13%
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This blog post and discussion illustrates the power of the blog platform. This is an important issue for a community like Washington, and as you review the comments, there are many personal stories as well as factual information that help inform this complicated issue.

Al and Dawn, Homeless at Starbucks – Raw Fisher

Presentation: Blogs in Health Care; Council of Accountable Physician Practices

December 6th, 2007 | Popularity: 22%
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Eytan-Chcf Web2 2007-2

PDF: Web 2.0 for Planning, Communication and Change Management, Ted Eytan, MD

California Healthcare Foundation

Given at California Healthcare Foundation’s new headquarters, Oakland, CA

It was a busy week in California, starting with a visit to the California Healthcare Foundation’s new headquarters in Oakland, California. I was honored to lead a discussion on the use of “Web 2.0″ (mostly focusing on blogs) in health care. This blog itself is an experiment, partially funded by the Foundation. I think the basic message is “If you don’t, they will,” and “being transparent and accountable as a health system can inspire confidence.”

I first gave this presentation with Andy Wiesenthal, MD, who leads the Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect project, at a User Group meeting for Epic Systems clients, later within my own health system, Group Health Cooperative, and now this public version.

I am a bit of an evangelist now of using Web 2.0 in Healthcare, and consider myself “very available” when it comes to the opportunity to give this presentation to other audiences. It’s been a great journey, as you can see in the slides.

We had a nice discussion about the value of blogging and transparency in different environments. The presentation is meant to be informational, without any particular recommendation for the philanthrophy community. Of interest, though, was a question posed about how to move to Web 2.0 in a large organization. My answer was, “Slowly” and “not to shock the system.”

What was really great was that Holly Potter, the Director of Communication for the HealthConnect project was in attendance, and her response was, “It would be nice to have the luxury of being that deliberate. We don’t have that option anymore.” Holly’s team supports a project that touches millions of lives. She related her experience as the person accountable for ensuring that the communities that are touched by this project have the most accurate information about it, all the time. It was very powerful to have Holly present in the discussion, in my opinion.

Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP)

Speaking of accountability, I was also fortunate to meet Nancy Taylor, the Executive Director of CAPP, which is an affiliate of the American Medical Group Association. The medical group I belong to, Group Health Permanente, is a member of CAPP, and these are the medical groups that are working to promote a health care system that is “more accountable to patients, consumers, and purchasers.”

I actually didn’t know about CAPP before I started this work, but as I look at the roster, it’s a who’s who of innovators in the personal health record / patient-centered care world.

This is not to say, though, that CAPP groups are the only ones innovating. As I discussed previously on this blog, there is a lot going on in smaller practices supported by the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians. At the same time, this consortium represents another nice touchpoint for those who ask, “Who can I talk to about implementing patient centered health information technology?”

Of course, in the shadow of the talk I had just given, I thought about which of these medical groups have blogs where they are communicating their work to the public. I don’t know the answer to that question (and if any of them are reading this, please post your comments here about that). I hope at some point to interact more with the Council and maybe discuss the opportunity to be even more transparent using Web 2.0 technology

I am wrapping up my time in California, with just a few more posts to go, and I wanted to again thank the California Healthcare Foundation and The Council of Accountable Physician Practices for their support of patient centered health information technology.

Changing Physician Education; Social Media in the Workplace, Questions about HPV Vaccine

November 20th, 2007 | Popularity: 38%
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November 14th through November 17th:

Analysis of Paralysis; More health leaders’ blogs; Role Experience and Performance

November 12th, 2007 | Popularity: 30%
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November 5th through November 10th: