Monday, March 18, 2013

#HCSM Review – Oct. 3 Edition

The HCSM Review is a peer-reviewed blog carnival for everyone interested in health care social media.

As the Director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, Im focused on demonstrating practical benefits of social media for patients. So in my call for submissions, I asked for posts testifying to the ways social media has helped patients.

Some of the submissions related more to devices than social media directly, but heres an interesting roundup:

A Dose of Reality

After 14 hours of beating myself up, I realized I wasnt to blame for being the F-patient

I realize there is a lot of huzzah and hurrah about the e-patient out thereperhaps among those who have the skill or leisure to be so well connected to social media. At times, I believe Im one of the fold. But what about the f-patient?... [via Social Media University Global]