Comments on: Social Networks and Health – The Research and the Reviews

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:32:32 +0000

Thanks Peter – I couldn’t agree more with your statements. If managed properly (e.g. positive support structure, factual information), I believe online social health networks can have a favorable affect on a patient’s health. However, many people, both patients and physicians alike, don’t understand what these websites are or the benefits they can offer. Indeed, one of the reasons I started this project was to learn more myself …

I’d love to have your involvement in the project! Your insights as a physician would be invaluable.

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By: Peter Beck

Peter Beck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:54:29 +0000

A really timely post. It’s high time that the power of Web 2.0, or social media, or whatever you want to call it, is invoked purposefully to leverage health outcomes.

Part of the problem, as we’ve touched on before, is that most practicing physicians are not at all Internet savvy, much less Web 2.0, Twitter, Facebook, social networking site, or even Google Reader or Google news savvy. This will change, as the generation now in training now “imports” their native Web 2.0 familiarity from their personal into their professional and academic lives.

But we’re still a ways off, when 90% of American physicians don’t even use an EMR, yet.

Still, now is the time that will be remembered as when everything started coming together. And it’s never too late to be impressed by what Web 2.0 can do, for you and yours, your patients, and your practice.

FWIW, I’d love to be a guest writer.