Last week, the W2O Group published a large-scale study of online conversations about cancer. This study, for the first time, featured public conversations on blogs, Facebook, twitter, YouTube, user forums and mainstream news side-by-side with conversations held by and amongst known and validated physicians.
Should You Friend Your Patient On Facebook?
In the age of Social Media, the relationships between physicians and patients are changing. While there are no guidelines or laws on how to communicate with your patients online, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) have recently come up with a framework.
The Future Of Healthcare Design Is Already Here
Read how design can change healthcare for the better and that futuristic implementations are already here!
Europe’s First Award For A Social Campaign in Healthcare
Public Health is definitely not known for cutting edge communication. It’s about time to prove the world otherwise, thus Europe's largest social network for medical professionals, DocCheck, has put together an award to change this.
We See What’s Possible
Franz and I recently had a short phone call and then Franz said something that struck me: “We see what’s possible”. As we are doing a lot of times we were discussing what the “digital physician” is and consequently what the “digital patient” is. For both parties, the internet still remains rather unknown terrain. Go...
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count
Once in a while you discover small little gems on the web that are not existant only because of making money with them but with more sophisticated aims. One of them is called The Jenny McCarthy Body Count (by Derek Bartholomeus) and although some you might know this site already I didn’t. If you are...
MedCrunch to cover Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston
MedCrunch has been an official media partner of the Health 2.0 Europe conference for some time now. But now, starting next monday MedCrunch will also be covering the Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston. This conference will be held at the Boston Marriott – Copley Place on May 14-15, so if you like to stay on...
Interview With Denise Silber On European Startups, Facebook And Best Practices In Pharma
As we have announced in our last post, MedCrunch will be supporting some very selected events as a media partner in 2012. One of them is Doctors 2.0 & You in Paris. An event which we have been attending last year and which nicely captured the current status of medical professionals on the web and...
MedCrunch Interview With KevinMD: Social Media Connaisseur, Thought-Leader & Primary Care Physician
KevinMD is considered to be THE physician voice online. His blog, Facebook page and Twitter stream are all bookmarked by thousands of physicians and patients. In this interview, he shares some of his gems of wisdom, which will help you to improve your online presence, make you more productive and boost your doctor-patient relationship. ...
A Small Step For you, A Giant Leap For Healthcare: HealthTap
We've previously written about Healthysparx, an alleged Quora for health. But today we have to re-consider the arguments we've made in that post and take the ambitious goals and intuitive user interfaceof such a service into account when looking at Heatlthtap, which had launched only recently in public beta.
Health 2.0 Europe: Full Programme and 100€ Discount for MedCrunch Readers
We are eagerly awaiting the upcoming Health 2.0 Confernce in Berlin on October 27/28 2011. Team MedCrunch will be part of the entire conference talking to startups and grasping the status of Health 2.0 in Europe in general. The programme so far is ecclectic and diverse and it looks like it’s going to be a...
How to Use Social Media on Your Way to Search Engine Stardom – The Social Score is Next
Google increasingly uses your Twitter and Facebook footprints for its internal algorithm. Know how to use these services in order to show up for the keywords of your choosing.
