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Tag Archives: Health Care

Can social networking legitimately improve care, lower costs?

A recent article by Molly Merril discusses the release of a recent report about how health care organizations are using social media with groups of patients online.

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What Can We Learn from this “Innovation” Video Re: the Psychology of Online Interactivity?

The video I’m referencing below starts by looking at what works to make Facebook games so successful. It expands it the discussion to include video games, such as mafia wars and farmville. The professor in the video explains why he thinks the psychological factors underpinning those games have catapulted small websites into $300 million businesses in short periods of time.

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FCC Advances the Telehealth & Telemedicine Agenda

The FCC, which delivers a national broadband strategy to Congress on March 17, issued a “National Broadband Plan: National Purposes Update” on Feb. 18 that highlights the need for broadband to support telehealth & telemedicine and offers a preview of other major goals.

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Social Media? Enough already … I’m a health care provider, not a media person.

How will the recent developments in social media influence you and your work in the next decade? Watch this short video and get a glimpse of what is to come!

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Welcome to the Telehealth Blog

Introduction to the teleheatlh blog, also discussing telemedicine, ehealth and various aspects of technology in health care.

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