Why I am Learning 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 case of...
“Ewwwwww fat people disgust me!!!” – Why Doctors need to be on Social Media
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...
The Brass Ring of Healthcare Social Media: Health
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 ...
Think Mobile
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...
Obesity and Social Media – The Growing Body of Research
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...
Comparing Twitter Feeds: Healthcare vs Celebrities
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...
Can Regions with “Happy Tweets” Predict Obesity Prevalence? Maybe.
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...
Why Doctors should Attend the Mayo Clinic’s Indianapolis Social Media Residency this March
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...
Physicians as Social Media Content Producers: A Hidden Opportunity?
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...
The Ethics of Using Twitter for Mental Health Monitoring: An Article Review
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...