Home Page for Workshop

I was thinking about tweeting links to our e-mail list, blog, and Facebook group (again), and wondering how to do all that in 140 characters, and it occurred to me that all that -- and more -- could be on a web page. And the social media way to do a web page would be as a wiki. So I made us:

http://medinfo-socmed.wikispaces.com

I also included our submission, the date and time of our workshop in Cape Town, and pictures of Steve and me from here. I was able to make the color scheme like the Twitter one. And while I was at it, I made us a new and improved logo. :-)

To edit the wiki, just go to the above URL and click "join this wiki" on the left (and sign in or create an account and wait for me to approve you if you haven't yet).

Verizon Announces Cloud EMR Platform

The Verizon Health Information Exchange service allows doctors and healthcare providers to store, manage and share patients' electronic medical records via an online portal regardless of IT systems and specific protocols.

“ Healthcare has had the most advanced technologies available, but all in diagnosis and treatment.
Michael Matthews, CEO of MedVirginia ”

Called the Verizon Health Information Exchange, the service, which was introduced July 14, is geared toward helping healthcare delivery organizations bypass several steps on the way to adopting EMRs.

Verizon hopes to capture a variety of customers by providing a hosted infrastructure that can store the patient records of small offices with three physicians or less, as well as large scale medical facilities with several hundred doctors and tens of thousands of patients.

Excerpts from InformationWeek. Quote from SearchCloudComputing.

MedInfo 2010 Meeting in Cape Town (Sept 12-15)

A group of us have put together a workshop on Social Media for the 2010 MedInfo meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. Here is the description:

In this Medinfo 2010 workshop, participants use social media to build an online community before the Congress, and then at the Congress discuss both that experience and research findings regarding

1. potential benefits for underserved populations,
2. privacy risks,
3. ethical considerations, and
4. evaluation of online communities.

The workshop online community and online consumer support groups are compared and contrasted. The particular social media used are an e-mail list, a blog, a Facebook group, and Twitter (hashtag is #medinfo).

You can view the abstract for the workshop here.

We'll post information about the workshop instructors in a later post. Stay tuned for more posts here.