Course: Social Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

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Our guest educator, Dave, has recorded a new video just for this course. It is a short introduction of his experience and research. “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart is a stage IV …

We are nearly at the end of the final week. I am so glad you are here and keep learning. I would like to review some of the most important …

This article proposed a novel approach to identify quality factors of hospital services. It also identified the overtime trends automatically from online health communities, especially from hospital-related questions and answers. …

This week we will talk about the use of social media by hospitals and health authorities. Please watch my video above. I would also encourage you to explore the additional …

Social media offers the opportunity to gather data and monitor events in real time to help detect healthcare crises early. Here Luis explains how social media can be a powerful …

In this video Luis explains HealthMap, a project from the Harvard Medical School which tracks online news about disease from all over the world.

This week, our guest educator Dr. Luis Fernandez-Luque talks about the use of social media during crisis management. Luis has been involved in eHealth and social media research for over …

Welcome to Week 3! This week, another guest educator, Elia Gabarron, will talk about games and gamification in a healthcare context.

How did the web application designed to improve sexual health among young people in Norway fare when it was launched online? Watch Elia explain more about the Sjekkdeg.no project. You …

In this video Elia discusses various examples of gamification and their impact on healthcare. She discusses a real-life example for how gaming has been used to improve sexual health among …

Dr. Elia Gabarron explains how traditional models of healthcare professional-led care can be delivered differently through social media and online games. She explains how these technologies are changing the relationship …

Elia Gabarron is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, at the University Hospital of North Norway, and PhD Candidate at the Arctic University of …

Ebola hit the news headlines in 2014 yet information about some strange fever was tracked even earlier. Watch the video to hear Luis discuss how data can help to provide …

In this video Dr. Luis Fernandez Luque discusses how technology is playing a role in disseminating information about diseases such as diabetes. The focus especially is on the sharing of …