Tag Archives: Hospitals

Twitter Case Study: Finding GPS in a Hospital Haystack

I was in a meeting today with Kim from our Mayo Clinic Quality office discussing how social media and tools like the Flip video camera could be used in her work, and she mentioned that she had heard about a hospital in Texas that was giving GPS units to patients when they checked in, so [...]
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RAQ: Tips for Selling Hospital Leadership on Social Media?

This is another in the Recently Asked Questions series. I’m glad to answer these via email (and have answered directly in this case), but by de-identifying the person asking the question (to protect confidentiality) and also answering in public I hope to provide a resource for others who may have similar questions. More importantly, it [...]
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Alltop Releases New Top Hospital News Site

  In response to suggestions raised in the #hcsm group discussion on Twitter, Alltop has created a new site, hospital.alltop.com, that aggregates RSS feeds of news releases from several top hospitals. You might want to bookmark or “favorite” it. For people working in healthcare public relations, it’s a good way to see at a glance [...]
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Looks Like Epcot…

…but they deliver babies here. It’s also where the Florida Hospital Association is hosting its Winter workshop on marketing, at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies. Here are a couple of photos: an exterior and from inside the glass globe.
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Facebook 302: Facebook for Medical Support Groups

Sites like CarePages and CaringBridge have been developed to meet important needs for hospitalized patients and their families and friends. But Facebook, as a powerful general-purpose social networking site, may prove to be an even more useful alternative to these dedicated patient communication sites. I will start by describing the very real needs CarePages and [...]
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