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How to Revolutionize Healthcare with Clever Twitter Applications

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Tal Friedman lifeaftercancer.wordpress.com
Description Want to learn how to use Twitter as a game-changer in healthcare? Find out how we can go way beyond just tweeting at, following and friending doctors, nurses, patients and caregivers and actually BUILD applications and communities to make a quantum leap forward in how we communicate our healthcare needs, share tips and gather information we can trust. I'll show you sample Twitter applications that make clever use of lists, private accounts and even Twitter bots to revolutionize healthcare in the 21st century.
Questions
Answered
  1. How can a "twitter bot" (automated twitter account) be used to provide support to cancer patients?
  2. How can twitter's large scale pub/sub platform be used as a message backbone for novel applications?
  3. How can ad hoc communities form on twitter?
  4. How can authorities on a particular topic be recognized and promoted to a large twitter audience?
  5. How can you transmit sensitive private data (like health info) over twitter while ensuring it does not fall into the wrong hands?
Level Intermediate
Category Health
Tags applications, Health , twitter