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The So What Factor

Heidi Allen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:21:06 +0000

A little while ago I was interviewed about the work I do at BodyinMind.org. This is a website that writes about pain research. We started it just over 2 years ago, and now have over 9,000 unique visitors every month from over 100 countries. That's great you might think, but there is still the 'so what' factor. Is this actually making any difference? The jury is still out and we are trying very hard to measure whether what we are doing makes any difference at all to pain research or clinical practice.

Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy on the essential role of social media in healthcare

Heidi Allen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:13:08 +0000

The Mayo Clinic has been very influential in its use of social media to educate patients. It has lofty aims - to connect researchers with their network for example (no easy task). In this short video Mayo Clinic CEO John Noseworthy, talks about Mayo Clinic's Center for Social Media and the Social Media Health Network. and what he views as the essential role of social media in the future of health care

Australian Hospital Social Networks 2011

Heidi Allen — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:13:41 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://heidiallen.id.au/?attachment_id=4216","Australian Hospital Social Networks 2011") Last year I compared Australian and US hospital social networks based on data collected by Mike Cadogan – Life in the Fast Lane, and Ed Bennet – Found in Cache. This is the state of play just over a year on. Hospital social networks 2010 Hospital social networks 2011 [...]

Health and Wellness in a Digital Age

Heidi Allen — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:12:37 +0000

What does health and wellness in a digital age mean for consumers?

Healthshare – a new social health site

Heidi Allen — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:10:21 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","Healthshare – a new social health site") Healthshare is a social health network that connects people with similar health experiences, and is a place that patients as well as carers and families can get support and information. Still in beta, this site states, and I like this, that based on your profile certain experts and [...]

Our health and wellness tomorrow in today’s technology

Heidi Allen — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:24:48 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","Our health and wellness tomorrow in today’s technology") Daniel Kraft is a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor and innovator. He chairs the FutureMed program at Singularity University, exploring the impact and potential of rapidly developing technologies as applied to health and medicine.

Cochrane on Social Media

Heidi Allen — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:30:22 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","Cochrane on Social Media") One of the best presentations on how to use social media in health and research I have seen. Done by an organisation that is in itself impressive: The Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993, is an international network of people helping healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed [...]

Did better care become more affordable for more?

Heidi Allen — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:21:47 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","Did better care become more affordable for more?") Looking at this interesting diagram in the BMJ – the gist of which is something like this: in the ‘old days’ worst case scenario was viewed as self care of your medical condition and best care was to see a specialist. The problem is: best care is [...]

The NEJM does it again. Sort of.

Heidi Allen — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:53:26 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","The NEJM does it again. Sort of.") A twitter conversation as to merits of using social media for high value journals took place recently. High value as in top medical journals in the world, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM. I have no idea of their subscription rate, but would venture a [...]

Google’s New Body Browser

Heidi Allen — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:17:25 +0000

Tweetdo_sud_thumb("http://","Google’s New Body Browser") Google’s new Body Browser is in Beta – but what an opportunity for web3D for medical education. No more expensive anatomy books (sorry publishers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMNozadRUMg Body Browser is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for [...]