by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
Sometimes there is value to comparing apples to oranges. In this post, I am asking you to compare top healthcare organizations with people in the context of one social media metric: Twitter followers. Take a look at the above graph. There is one key point I want to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Machine Learning, Twitter
In a recently published study Twitter-derived neighborhood characteristics associated with obesity and diabetes, by analyzing 422,094 tweets over one year from the state of Utah, there was a good demonstration of the predictive value of tweets to determine population...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
Why should a doctor attend the Mayo Clinic’s one day Social Media Residency March 1st in Indianapolis March 1st? Here are a few good reasons a can personally confirm: 1. You have a chance to learn from some of the best social media people in healthcare. They aren’t...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media
How do physicians who already use social media actually engage it? When Examining Physician use of Social Media in 2017, it appears that of the 80% of physicians who engage with social media in some form, only 1% of physicians are content producers! Thats remarkably...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter, Twitter Ethics
For those people interested in ethical questions surrounding the use of Twitter for mental health monitoring, the 2015 study published in the BioMed Central Medical Ethics Journal titled Ethical issues in using Twitter for population-level depression monitoring: a...
