The Weekly Scoop in Healthcare Social Media #41

Docs Look to Social Media for Use as Part of Med. Care

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The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, combined with rising usage rates among young people, has some physicians wondering if the sites might be helpful resources to diagnose and treat patients …

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Social Networking and the Medical Practice

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Guidelines for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients

An excellent document created by Ohio State Medical Association.

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Health Tweeder. A Neat Visual Tool… But is it Useful?

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The healthcare social media scene needs tools to manage, visualize and discover the usefulness of Twitter. This fun tool is definitely on to something….

Health Tweeder is a neat visual tool meant to aggregate tweets (Twitter messages) on specific health areas.

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“Healthcare Social Media in Practice” is our pick of the week display of great social media execution in the healthcare industry

MacArthur OB/Gyn

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Doing a great job of leveraging social media, MacArthur OB/GYN’s website and overall web presence includes a Twitter account, blogs, a Twitter feed, embedded health news feed, and embedded YouTube on their website, and a very active Facebook that advertises their job openings. One of their physicians even has a link to his Myspace!

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