by Matthew Rehrl MD | Python
To understand a culture, you must first understand it’s language. Most Americans initially don’t like Paris, and the reason is most Americans don’t speak French. Learning the French language is the entry point to understanding the French culture, and – in the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Facebook, Social Media, Twitter Ethics
Please read the excellent, but disturbing medical article Obesity in social media: a mixed methods analysis. You will quickly understand the need for physicians and other medical professionals to be more engaged on social media. In this study, which looked at the word...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Healthcare Revenue, Social Media, Twitter
The three obvious business reasons for a healthcare organization to master social media are: 1.Branding 2.Physician Recruiting, 3. New Patient Development. Most healthcare organizations see social media as strictly a BRANDING tool. The gatekeepers for it will be ...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
In 2017, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) looked at the performance of 297 government websites over 3 months and tracked 2.55 billion visits. 43.5% of these visits were done from a mobile device. It’s important that whenever we think about...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
A natural extension of my being board certified in Obesity Medicine and having a deep interest in Social Media is bring curious as to where they intersect. Above is a graph showing the increasing number of PUBMED citations using both Social Media + Obesity as search...
