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...
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 | 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...
