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Event Interactive 2010
Format Solo
Organizer Aimee Roundtree – University of Houston-Downtown
Description Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.
Questions
Answered
  1. How popular and prevalent is social networking use in hospital settings?
  2. Which hospitals currently use the technology and how do they use it?
  3. How might the technology be used to aid in healthcare reform?
  4. In what way does the technology complicate patient privacy and HIPPA issues?
  5. What future applications of the technology might help resolve longstanding health care problems, such as treatment adherence and healthcare disparities?
  6. How has social networking changed the nature of the patient-provider relationship?
  7. What revisions to to health communication theory does the technology inspire?
  8. How can social networking improve evidence-based medicine, translational research and medical training?
  9. In what way can continuing medical education benefit from the technology?
  10. How might social networking software be deployed to facilitate integrated care?
Level Beginner
Category Blogging, Case Study, Government and Technology, Social Networking, Writing / Technical Writing
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