Social Health Panel at #Swedish100

I was very happy to he a part of the Pre-conference session of the 2010 Swedish Medical Center Health Care Symposium. Definitely felt a little intimidated being on a panel with a group of medical social media superstars (that probably shows in the video above - sheesh)

Our moderator, Nick Dawson, did a fabulous job at keeping us on track. As you'll see in the video above from our panel, he did a great thing in which he asked the audience if they had any questions. I think those opening thoughts really guided the panel in our discussion. Nick also asked about the composition of the audience. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of physicians in the audience.

The other panelists included Kent Bottles, Jen Dyer, and Bryan Vartabedian. Some themes that came out of the discussion were the issues that physicians are concerned about - Payment reform for electronic communications, Patient privacy concerns, and Liability issues. Another interesting theme that came out was showing a lot of love for twitter. If you had any question about how physicians utilize twitter for social media consumption - You must watch the video above!

In addition to our panel, there were presentations by Dave deBronkart and Wendy Sue Swanson. (As of this posting, EPatient Dave's talk is available, but SeattleMamaDoc is not - yet) I was also able to meet a lot of great people including Bill Thatcher, Greg Guenther, and Anita Beninger. I was even interviewed by Jessica Levco from Ragan Communuications. I'll post that interview here when it is made available.

I'd like to thank the Swedish team including Dana Lewis, Melissa Tizon, Aaron Blank, and a lot of other people that I am forgetting. If you'd like to check out the twitter stream, you can check out #swedish100. (In the video below, you'll see my attempt of recording a Q&A of a question about patient involvement with their care)

2010 Swedish Health Care Symposium

Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington will be hosting their 2010 Health Care Symposium next week on October 11-12. They have an impressive speakers list including the CEO of General Electric. Dr. Rod Hochman, the CEO of Swedish, is even on twitter - and - sent me a tweet back when I said hello. (Very cool!)

I will be taking part in one of the Pre-Conference sessions. The speakers for this Pre-Con session include Kent Bottles, Nick Dawson, Dave de Bronkart, Jennifer Dyer, Wendy Swanson, and Bryan Vartabedian. (In the video above, I discuss the conference with Dana Lewis from Doctor Anonymous Show 187)

If you're not able to attend the event in person, that's ok. Swedish is making it available on a live video stream. If you want to watch the Live Video Stream, just go to http://bit.ly/sw100live - Also, as you're watching the live stream, use twitter to take part in the conversation by using the hastag #Swedish100 - They will also be using the social media tool called CoverItLive to try to funnel some of the conversation.

Social Health Is Cool Right Now

Back in the dark ages only a few years ago when the intersection of medicine and the internet was in its infancy, there was not really a phrase or a word coined to describe medical people who liked the internet. Then, for lack of a better term, "Medbloggers" was used. This was kind of solidified by the weekly blog carnival called "Grand Rounds."

In addition, only a year ago, there was the first "Medblogger" track at the huge tech conference called BlogWorld Expo 2009, of which I was lucky enough to be asked to be a speaker for. Then, earlier this year, in the spring, I saw people using the phrase, "Social Health." This was especially prominent with the event named "SouthBy Social Health" - patterned after the very popular geek conference called "South By Southwest."

Now, in 2011, the South By Southwest meeting is going to have a "Social Health" track of programming. In addition, in Las Vegas this week will be the "Social Health" track at the 2011 BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. So, if you want to be one of the cool kids and want to be seen on the cutting edge, forget Social Media - Call it Social Health, and hold your head up high!

Paper.Li: I Don't Get It

Ok kids, I need some help here. It seems like over the past month or so, I've been seeing something peculiar in my twitter stream. The links I'm seeing are for "newspaper" like appearances of twitter stream hashtags.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not calling out any particular hashtag "newspaper," but, in general, I just don't get. If I wanted to follow all the people these "newspapers" are following, I would do that. I don't need another twitter aggregator within my twitter stream. I do understand that platforms like this popped up since the introduction of the iPad and ipad apps like flipboard (BTW, I love filpboard when I use it on the iPad).

However, when I see this on my twitter stream, I'm starting to get a little annoyed by this. I know what you're saying, "Why not just unfollow them?" Well, the only thing that kind of irks me iw the paper.li link. Maybe there's a way to search for this and have this deleted from my twitter stream...

Now, I'm not going to completely write this off. So, this is where I need your help. For those of you who have a paper.li page and for those of you who read it, help me out here. Why do you use it and why do you read it? Leave your comments below. Thanks so much!

Why Twitter Is Cool

We're going to be talking a lot tomorrow about Twitter and other social media platforms at the Pre-Conference meeting of the Swedish Medical Center Health Care Symposium. But, I just wanted to share something that is really cool about twitter.

Twitter gives me the opportunity to be in contact with people I would never have access to. For example, the CEO of Swedish Medical Center just started a twitter account. Just to kind of be funny, I sent him a twitter message. In the video above, you'll see him type a message back to me. When I saw this, I was really amazed. That's really cool!

Vlog: October 9, 2010

In the video above, you'll see a video blog post, portions of which were recorded yesterday and this morning talking about my first day here in Seattle. If you enjoyed this, I encourage you to check out other videos over on my YouTube channel. Thanks so much!

Dr. A Show 187 Wrap-up: Dana Lewis

Thanks again to Dana Lewis for joining me for Doctor Anonymous Show 187. The topics we discussed included the upcoming 2010 Swedish Medical Center Healthcare Symposium, the success of the #HCSM (Healthcare Communication & Social Media) chat, the #MDChat that occurred last week, and other topics as well.

As always, you can listen to Doctor Anonymous Show 187 on the sidebar of the blog. You can also go to the iTunes page for the show, download Show 187, and listen at your leisure. I also encourage you to check out the Facebook page for the show, and my YouTube page. Thanks for your continued support for the show!

Show 188 Wrap-up

Had a great show from Seattle last night. Thanks, as always to Kat for joining me for Doctor Anonymous Show 188. We talked about a lot of topics, as we usually do. In the video segment above, we discuss the interesting topic of what happens when people disagree online. As a reference, check out blog post 1, blog post 2, and blog post 3.

You can listen to Doctor Anonymous Show 188 on the sidebar here. Or, you can go to the show's iTunes page, download the show, and listen at your convenience. Also check out the show's Facebook page, and hit the big "Like" button at the top. Finally, I invite you to check out my YouTube page. Enjoy!

2010 HealthCamp SFBay

Now, I wasn't at the 2010 HealthCamp SFBay in person yesterday. But, I definitely felt like I was there. The social media coverage on this event was impressive. I was following the twitter stream all day. According to Gregg Masters, the twitter reach of the event reached 2,132,033 impressions (really?). In the video above, Todd Park gives what sounds like a keynote talk. What you'll hear is the energy in his voice as he presents his topic on next steps for the community health data initiative. I'm energized just watching this vid. Great job!

Dr. A Show 187 Tonight!

Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 9pmET/6pmPT (0100 UTC)

I hope you can join me tonight for Doctor Anonymous Show 187 when our guest will be Dana M Lewis who is the Interactive Marketing Specialist for Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. As I discussed in yesterday's post, Dana is also the founder and moderator of the #HCSM twitter chat that takes place Sunday evenings.

Swedish Medical Center has been celebrating its 100 year anniversary. And, next week will be their Health Care Symposium. If you haven't already, check out their speaker's list who include the US Surgeon General (who is a Family Doc) and the CEO of General Electric. I was lucky enough to be asked to be on a panel for the Pre-Conference session. Check out the pre-con agenda here. Dana and I will be talking about these topics, and a lot more...

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