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Reinventing the Physician: The 2,000-Year-Old Story of Doctors and Patients

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My role as physician is changing. Fortunately, we doctors have been through this many times, and you patients have always led us in the right direction. In this TEDx Penn Quarter video I’ll tell you the story of doctors and patients. I’ll show you where we’re going and where we’ve been. It might surprise you.

I’ve been on a whirlwind tour these last few weeks. I’d like to thank my brilliant and beautiful wife (and PR agent) @FoodBlogga, my colleagues and staff at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, Chris Mahoney (@cpmahoney) and Cynergy Solutions (who graciously invited me to speak) and two inspiring physicians with whom I spent some time recently, Dr. Joe Kvedar (@jkvedar) and Dr. Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande).

So tell me, do you see your doctor reinventing himself or herself yet? Why or why not?

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.

 

 

The Mayo Clinic Social Media Center #MCCSM

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The Mayo Clinic is doing wonderful things. Shocking, isn’t it?

This time they’re teaching the community how to use the latest and greatest healthcare tools. Not gamma-knife radiation or surgical robots, but Twitter and Facebook.

Social media platforms might be some of the most powerful tools available to improve your health by allowing doctors and patients to work together as a team. This team has a lot of potential, but it needs some good coaching for us to use these tools effectively. I’d like to help them.

What do you think?
(Available in HD on YouTube if you’d like to see my dilated pores).

HealthCamp is Coming to San Diego!

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HealthCamp is coming to San Diego, September 7th, 2010 at theTown and Country Resort and Convention Center. It will be in coordination with the 2nd International mHealth Networking Conference.

HealthCamp is a collaborative experience that focuses on social media, interactive health technology and mobile health (mHealth) for better health care.

HealthCamp is a user-organized “un–conference” that brings together consumers, health providers, payors, health industry experts and technology professionals for a one (1) day session to exchange ideas informally and openly. Participants themselves provide the content. The crowd determines the break-out sessions which are posted on a grid and people attend any of the sessions they desire throughout the day. Anyone can present or host a session.

Past healthcamps have been in Boston, Philadephia, Washington, DC, Nashville, San Leandro (San Francisco Bay area), Maryland and the UK. For an overview of healthcamp, click here.

Please consider joining me and many other leaders in health care social media this inaugural event in San Diego.

To register:

Register for HealthCamp San Diego in San Diego, CA on Eventbrite

HealthCamp San Diego is made possible by the generous principal support of:

Kaiser Permanente