Monthly Archives: March 2011

HealthCamp San Diego 2011

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HealthCamp San Diego 2011 is here

It will be at the UCSD Rady School of Management on Sunday March 20th. Click the register here button from the HealthCamp San Diego page to register.

HealthCamp is a national movement led by volunteers focused on social media and the best of the Internet and Mobile Web to work for better health for patients and better health care for providers.

It’s an “un–conference” where patients, health providers, health industry experts and technology professionals come together for a one day event to exchange ideas informally, locally, openly. You provide the content, with break-out sessions they develop themselves and plug into a schedule grid on the day of the event. Anyone can present and host a session in nearly any format.

You can also follow us on Twitter, including John Amschler @jxa, Chris Mahoney @cpmahoney, to the current stable of Danielle Cass,@daniellecass, Mike Kirkwood @mikekirkwood and Gregg Masters @2healthguru.

Just search the hashtag #hcsd11

Social Media and Physicians

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I recently wrote a paper on social media with some of my colleagues at Kaiser Permanente: Ted Eytan, MD @tedeytan, Rahul Parikh, MD @docrkp, Vince Golla @vincegolla, and Sara Stein, MD @sarasteinmd. In the article, “Social Media and the Health System,” we argue that the benefits of engaging patients and colleagues in social media outweigh potential risks.

The two most common reasons that physicians resist participating on blogs, Twitter and Facebook are: 1. Fear of liability. 2. Lack of compensation for the time invested.

If we would like more physicians to be part of the conversation, then we’ll need to find ways to overcome these barriers.

What has your experience been like interacting with physicians on social media? Is there a place for physicians on sites such as Twitter and Facebook?

For physicians reading this post, you can also join the over 160 others who have commented on this article on Sermo.