At a meeting in Copenhagen earlier this week Bertalan Mesko was introduced as “the world leader in social media and medicine.” After listening to him and looking at some of […]
Tag: twitter
Matthew Billingsley: How would you use social media during a public health crisis?
At the height of the 2009 pandemic, there were 10 000 swine flu related tweets an hour. These ranged from the helpful (“Swine-flu symptoms: checklist to see if you may […]
David Payne: Holy Kaw! The Kawasaki ego has landed
I’m not surprised that Guy Kawasaki’s 10th book is called Enchantment: How to Woo, Influence, and Persuade. It takes some chutzpah to assume near–zero knowledge of social media at a […]
Enrico Coiera: Science as Haiku (Or how to get a PhD in 20 tweets)
It’s easy to dismiss Twitter, a network that links people using messages of 140 characters or less, but it fills a genuine social gap. If Facebook is an archipelago of […]
David Kerr: T(w)eaching – using Twitter to teach patients
In the UK, we usually do it in groups – that is teaching patients with diabetes and other chronic disease how to self manage their condition. For example, a group […]
Fiona Pathiraja: Twitter – the medium and the message?
In his BMJ blog last week, David Kerr asked whether Twitter would ever be used for healthcare. As soon as this blog was posted, the Twitter healthcare community was buzzing […]
David Kerr: Twitterology
The NHS is in love with the airline industry. The idea of checklists before operations has really caught on, and increasingly ex-airline people are being placed in advisory roles for […]
Richard Smith: Review of “bring back browsing”
Although I bemoan prepublication peer review, I do a fair bit of reviewing. I’m never quite sure why, but it’s probably that I’m still insufficiently practised at saying no. I […]
David Kerr: Oscar season
Last Sunday it seemed like the whole of Silicon Valley stopped work to watch the Oscars (on-line of course) otherwise known as the 83rd Academy Awards. Overall, the impression was […]
Juliet Dobson: Should information be free?
Should information be free? Does any good come from restricting access to it? These questions were the topic of conversation at a talk hosted by IQ2 at the Dana Centre, […]