By Dr Mark Taubert, Palliative Care Consultant at Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK @DrMarkTaubert Dear David, Oh no, don’t say it’s true – whilst realization of your death was sinking in during those grey, cold January days of 2016, many of us went on with our day jobs. At the beginning of that week […]
Category: Social Media
Free wi-fi in healthcare settings – luxury or prerequisite?
by Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre Hospital NHS Trust, Cardiff, Wales @DrMarkTaubert and James Norris, Founder of the Digital Legacy Association, Camden, London @JamesNorris Many visitors to hotels, once they have unpacked, settled and polished off the chocolate mint placed on their cushions, will take […]
Symplur and the Heathcare Hashtag project
by Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Clinical Director for Palliative Medicine at Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK. Twitter: @DrMarkTaubert Finding the conversations that interest you most on Twitter can either be easy or difficult, depending on the complexity of what you are looking for. For instance, if you want to know what […]
A Guide to Using Pinterest for Palliative Care
Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a social media consultant, award-winning health blogger, and author of “Beyond The Buzz: Healthcare Social Media” Have you noticed how visual and colourful social media have become? Platforms that focus on visuals (like photos) such as Pinterest have grown in popularity, and it has been shown that visual media increase the rate of engagement when […]
A Starter’s Guide to Twitter and Hashtags for Hospice and Palliative Medicine
By Dr Matthew Katz, MD @subatomicdoc Department of Radiation Medicine Lowell General Hospital MA 01854 USA Many people find Twitter a bit confusing when they first sign up. This article aims to help palliative care professionals ease their way in, and find it an educationally valuable tool. And turning it the other way round, how can […]
Twittergate, or what to consider at academic conferences when using social media
by Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Social media use at conferences has become so commonplace that it is not at all unusual for a presenter to be faced with an audience peering down at laptops/tablets/smartphones (academic spectacles reflecting myriad shimmers of blue LED light to the front). Sometimes flashlights, bright screens and tablets (held up in the […]
Metamorphosis of an upload
Do social media uploads, comments, blogs and videos provide rich opportunities for research or should we stand back on moral grounds? Answer: we need a framework By Dr Dafydd Brooks , Dr Mark Taubert, clinicians at Velindre Cancer Centre and Dr Annmarie Nelson and Dr Noreen Hopewell-Kelly, researchers at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, […]
Palliating Social Media – a seminar workshop at the Macmillan Professionals Conference in London
Dr Clifford Jones a Macmillan GP Facilitator in Aneurin Bevan Healthboard summarises a workshop seminar he attended at a Macmillan GP conference in London. Conference Twitter hashtag: #Macmillanpros What happens to our presence on social media when we die? And how do palliative care patients and professionals use social media? These were some of […]
Altmetric and its impact on research articles
by Dr Mark Taubert You may have noticed a small badge at the end of research articles in BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care and other journals’ online publications. This is an Altmetric badge, and it measures an article’s mentions in the social media world, for instance Twitter, Facebook and Google+. But […]
Palliative care through the eyes of social media
Written by Dr Mark Taubert and Dr Jacob Strand Welcome to a new feature in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, a dedicated social media section. Our aim is to highlight interesting developments in matters that bring together palliative and supportive care with the enormous world of social media. The breadth of postings that occur daily on social […]