Tag Archives: healthcare

What is the definition of social media within a healthcare context?

Posted by on August 1, 2011 4 comments

Healthcare social media (hcsm) can be defined as the interactive engagement through use of electronic platform(s) for the multi-directional exchange of user-generated information, knowledge, data and wisdom including anecdotal experiences amongst patients, their families, healthcare professionals, health researchers and healthcare administrators.

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What is the definition of social media within a healthcare context?

Twitter hashtags for Canadian Health topics

Posted by on May 19, 2011 11 comments

Please note this page has been moved to the wiki in order to facilitate the entry and development of new hashtags by everyone. Please post any hashtags that are not already present in the wiki page. The URL for the wiki page is http://ogrdy.ca/iwGxTs 

All this in one day

Posted by on August 3, 2010 No comments

A few things caught my eye in today’s news.

A man was charged (“suspicion of arbitrary conduct for having used hospital equipment without authorization”) for sewing his own wound because he didn’t want to wait in the ER any longer.

Jonas, 32, sewed up his own leg after ER wait

Canadian Senator Jacques Demers has just gone public with his recent health care experience. I’ll let you read the details about that one on your own.

Hockey man-turned-Senator Demers survives nearly fatal mishap during surgery

And the CMA wants change in the health care system. But the patients should do it.

On a related note when ever I look at Google News I don’t know if I’m impressed or afraid that Health is one of their seven categories of news items.