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CDC Twitter Accounts as The Kernel of a Trusted Retweet List
Here’s the list of the CDC-managed Twitter Accounts as of 2016. CDCEmergency https://twitter.com/CDCEmergency 2 CDCgov https://twitter.com/cdcgov 3 CDC_eHealth https://twitter.com/CDC_eHealth 4 CDCFlu https://twitter.com/CDCFlu 5 NIOSH https://twitter.com/niosh/ 6...
A Tweet as Haiku
“Foamy tides erase My legacy of footprints. Was I ever here?” This is an example of a nicely crafted haiku, taken from the article “How to Write a Powerful Haiku”. Haiku is a powerful form of poetry, with the structural rule of three unrhymed lines of 5-7-5 syllables...
The Binomial Distribution of Facebook Reviews for Healthcare Organizations
Facebook has been having a difficult week, but this does give us an opportunity to reflect on what Facebook is, and what it means, in particular with regards to the truth. When considering its role in patient complaints and reviews for healthcare organizations, here...
My Top Three Design Tips for All Things Social Media in Healthcare
My Top Three Design Tips for All Things Social Media in Healthcare: 1. Mobile first. 2. Mobile first. 3. Mobile first. Got it?
What Healthcare Needs to Learn from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
In the next few months, a lot is going to be learned about the relationship between Facebook, Cambridge Analytics, and the data of their users. The technical details will be interesting, as will observing the downfall of the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, or watching ...
Why Healthcare Organizations Should Delete their Facebook Reviews Section
If you are a healthcare organization, delete your Facebook Reviews Section. It’s bad for business, and, whether or not it is legal, it's certainly ethically dubious. Healthcare visits can be intensely emotional, resulting in an binomial distribution of highly negative...
“STEM” or “STE” + “M”?
We hear a lot about the need to develop more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students. We usually hear this term from either a government education official or a tech. industry representative, and invariably they both lump all four...
Software, Healthcare, and Dehumanization
Recently , in a discussion with a software developer from Microsoft (and after sprouting my new-found Python programming baby wings!) , I mentioned my hypothesis: Healthcare has created a new patent class - the digital patient - and often this class of patient...
The AI Holy Grail of Healthcare
“As the true grail will bring you life, the false grail will take it from you.” These are the words uttered by the Grail Knight in the movie “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade”. https://youtu.be/A0TalLrtZ24 I believe these words apply to to Healthcare's...