Social Media use in Healthcare

Use of social media by healthcare professionals is a matter of growing debate and concern. Discussions are on the way how healthcare professionals should behave themselves when using social media and several guidelines are proposed and published by different organisations in a variety of countries.

To provide insight in social media and what is involved, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have published a document called "The Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit".
This toolkit describes different social media tools and provides information on how to use them properly in a healthcare environment.

The Future of Integrated Health Care 2015

Check out this interesting movie on youtube. Is this where we are going??

The Future of Health Care is a subject that has been under intense speculation and debate in recent times across different forums. Several interesting prototypes and scenarios have been made by professionals and designers to give the World a glimpse of a fuzzy future.

Ergonomidesign have made it possible to actually experience the future of Health Care. Following their launch at the Medica/ Compamed trade fair (in Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov. 17-19), Ergonomidesign will present and demonstrate a future life science application that brings together 40 years of design experience for Ergonomidesign in the Life Science industry. This video is one of 2, that give an overview of the entire concept.

Health Imaging News Portals | Healthcare IT | Webinar: Providers should more readily adopt social media

The healthcare industry as a whole has been slow to adopt social media tools and to join online social networks, but the presenters of a HealthWorks Collective webinar said hospitals that aren’t utilizing the modern mode of communication are making a mistake and encouraged them to start now.

Health Imaging News Portals | Healthcare IT | Webinar: Providers should more readily adopt social media

ECRI report 'Social Media in Healthcare'

More than 1,000 hospitals have embraced online social networking. It’s as much for them as for the 4,700 or so that have avoided the resource that ECRI Institute has released a new risk analysis, "Social Media in Healthcare," and made it available for free downloading.

The implication: Adopters need to be aware of the risks they face while abstainers should consider the benefits they’re missing out on.

Check HealthImaging.com website for an article on this issue

To get access to the report you need to fill out the form here.

NAO Next Gen : the new robot of Aldebaran Robotics

Incredible what they can do with robots nowadays. Imagine this one being perhaps a little bigger and used in healthcare to help disabled or elderly people in certain tasks!