The Weekly Scoop in Healthcare Social Media #44

What to Do When Patients Contact You on Twitter

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A step by step example of how a physician can effectively handle the increasingly common situation of when a patient of theirs reaches out to them in a public social space.

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One in Four Urgent Care Patients Influenced by Social Media

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Social media has some type of influence on nearly 40% of recent hospital or urgent-care center patients, with more than half of 25-to-34 year olds reporting they are influenced by it …

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The Empowered E-Patient

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An info-graphic that depicts the demographics and activity profile of e-patients. Derived from the Path of the Blue Eye Project report: “Communicating with the Empowered E-Patient”.nnThis has been tweeted around recently, so it’s not new, but it is interesting to look at.

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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

East Bay Family Practice Medical Group

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Yelp works for medical practices! Take a look at East Bay Family Practice Medical Group’s Yelp page. They are an obstetrics and gynecology group in Oakland, CA. With dozens of reviews they are doing a really good job on Yelp.

It’s great to see more and more physicians on Yelp as it is the most trusted and valued user generated review service–an important part of your [intlink id=”24″ type=”page” anchor=”portfolio”]medical online presence[/intlink].

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