Comments on: Can Social Media Improve Your Health and Save Your Life? http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/ Improving Healthcare Through Digital Technology -- Effectively using digital technology and social media in pharma and healthcare Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: The Beginner's Guide to Pharma Social Media | Dose of Digital - Digital Marketing in Pharma and Healthcare http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-8319 The Beginner's Guide to Pharma Social Media | Dose of Digital - Digital Marketing in Pharma and Healthcare Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:00:18 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-8319 [...] of my favorite topics. Try out these two posts: Your Choice: Your Privacy or Your Life? and Can Social Media Improve Your Health and Save Your Life? Yes, I’m serious about the last one. And, before you get too far ahead of yourself, be sure [...] [...] of my favorite topics. Try out these two posts: Your Choice: Your Privacy or Your Life? and Can Social Media Improve Your Health and Save Your Life? Yes, I’m serious about the last one. And, before you get too far ahead of yourself, be sure [...]

]]> By: How social media changed my life - whydot pharma http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-2321 How social media changed my life - whydot pharma Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:06:07 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-2321 [...] Online community 21 sept 2009 Jon over at dose of digital just wrote a great post asking Can Social Media Improve Your Health or Change Your Life? “Of course it can!“ was my immediate thought, followed by a rush of utter frustration: “Why [...] [...] Online community 21 sept 2009 Jon over at dose of digital just wrote a great post asking Can Social Media Improve Your Health or Change Your Life? “Of course it can!“ was my immediate thought, followed by a rush of utter frustration: “Why [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Richman http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-2315 Jonathan Richman Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:17:04 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-2315 Thanks for commenting, Paul. I always call out Patients Like Me as the ultimate example of what you can do with social media/networking in healthcare. It shows us a pretty good picture (in my opinion) of what we'll see in the future. The only difference is that people won't have to input all their info and updates on their own, as it will all pull automatically from their personal health records (at least that would be the ideal). Who know how far that future actually is though? Always looking to hear new information from your team, please contact me when you've got some more. Thanks for commenting, Paul. I always call out Patients Like Me as the ultimate example of what you can do with social media/networking in healthcare. It shows us a pretty good picture (in my opinion) of what we’ll see in the future. The only difference is that people won’t have to input all their info and updates on their own, as it will all pull automatically from their personal health records (at least that would be the ideal). Who know how far that future actually is though? Always looking to hear new information from your team, please contact me when you’ve got some more.

]]> By: Pharma Blog Review » Blog Archive » Back again, as the summertime ends http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-2312 Pharma Blog Review » Blog Archive » Back again, as the summertime ends Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:44:32 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-2312 [...] Richman at Dose of Digital wonders, “Can social media improve your health and save your life?’ (The short answer: Yes, but read his entry and see why he came to this conclusion.) And he says [...] [...] Richman at Dose of Digital wonders, “Can social media improve your health and save your life?’ (The short answer: Yes, but read his entry and see why he came to this conclusion.) And he says [...]

]]> By: Paul Wicks http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-2311 Paul Wicks Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:44:30 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-2311 Great post; what you said in the last para is one of our core principles - "People will IF they know that they’ll get something valuable in return." Research is one of the valuable things we give back to our patients (and the broader community). You can see our latest peer-reviewed findings at www.patientslikeme.com/research. It's an exciting time for our research team; right now my colleague Jeana Frost is picking up the inaugural Medicine 2.0 Award from JMIR and we will have a few more exciting findings to share by the end of the year so stay tuned... Paul Wicks R&D Director @ PatientsLikeMe.com Great post; what you said in the last para is one of our core principles – “People will IF they know that they’ll get something valuable in return.”

Research is one of the valuable things we give back to our patients (and the broader community). You can see our latest peer-reviewed findings at http://www.patientslikeme.com/research. It’s an exciting time for our research team; right now my colleague Jeana Frost is picking up the inaugural Medicine 2.0 Award from JMIR and we will have a few more exciting findings to share by the end of the year so stay tuned…

Paul Wicks
R&D Director @ PatientsLikeMe.com

]]> By: Leonard Kish http://www.doseofdigital.com/2009/09/can-social-media-improve-your-health-and-save-your-life/#comment-2274 Leonard Kish Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.doseofdigital.com/?p=1562#comment-2274 John, Great post. This will lead to some great hypotheses. I agree. People are more than willing to give up privacy for convenience (how many people read facebook's or any other terms of service?), let alone opportunities to gain insight. If any serious reform goes through, and people can't be discriminated against for pre-existing conditions, we'll see even more sharing and collaboration. The most important thing for most people is that they have the choice to opt-in to sharing their information. Leonard .-= Leonard Kish´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.leonardkish.com/thoughts-on-open-source-and-hit-stimulus" rel="nofollow">Thoughts on Open Source and HIT Stimulus</a> =-. John,

Great post. This will lead to some great hypotheses. I agree. People are more than willing to give up privacy for convenience (how many people read facebook’s or any other terms of service?), let alone opportunities to gain insight.

If any serious reform goes through, and people can’t be discriminated against for pre-existing conditions, we’ll see even more sharing and collaboration. The most important thing for most people is that they have the choice to opt-in to sharing their information.

Leonard
.-= Leonard Kish´s last blog ..Thoughts on Open Source and HIT Stimulus =-.

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