September 28th, 2010 by EvanFalchukJD in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, Health Tips, Opinion, Research
Tags: 23rd Annual Benefits Forum and Expo, Avoiding Misguided Care, Best Doctors, Charlie Salter, ConAgra, Employee Benefits, Employee Health, Employer-Provided Health Coverage, Empowered Patients, Evan Falchuk, General Medicine, Healthcare Benefits, In Control Of Your Healthcare, Incorrect Diagnosis, Patient Empowerment, See First Blog, Wrong Treatment
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I’m speaking [today] at the 23rd Annual Benefits Forum and Expo. This is one of the premier events in the health care benefits industry, and it’s a thrill for me to be the opening speaker on the “Health Care” track.
I’m presenting along with Charlie Salter, the VP of Benefits of ConAgra, one of our customers at Best Doctors. The talk Charlie and I will give is called “Real Results: When Individuals are in Control of their Health Care.”
As regular readers know, good things happen when people are in control of their care. They have a chance to make sure they’re not one of the 20 percent of people that end up with an incorrect diagnosis, or the more than 60 percent of people that end up with the wrong treatment. It’s the single most powerful thing you can do to make sure your health care experience is as good as it can possibly be. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at See First Blog*
September 19th, 2010 by KevinMD in Announcements, Better Health Network, Health Policy, Medblogger Shout Outs, News, Opinion
Tags: Doctors and Social Media, Mayo Clinic Center for Health Care Social Media, Social Media In Medicine
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The Mayo Clinic has always been at the forefront of the social media and health care intersection, and is the first institution to have an official Center for Social Media.
When they recently announced the invited first 13 members of their Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Health Care Social Media, the first thing I noticed that there were zero physicians, and few with clinical experience. What a slap in the face.
There’s little question that the qualifications of the selected members are beyond reproach, and all are respected luminaries in the health care social media field. But this is the Mayo Clinic, one of the leading health care institutions in the country, so it’s odd that clinician-bloggers were blatantly ignored. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at KevinMD.com*
September 15th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Announcements, Better Health Network, Celebrity Interviews, Expert Interviews, Medblogger Shout Outs
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Capitol Hill, Dr. Kevin Pho, Dr. Rob Lamberts, Dr. Val Jones, EIC, Psychiatry, Psychology, Shire, UStream
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is probably overdiagnosed by physicians. In the lay public, the term is often used jokingly to describe the common feeling of distraction we experience in a world filled with interruptions. With a constant stream of text messages, Facebook updates, TV commercials, and fast-paced Twittering, there’s little wonder that we all feel frazzled at times.
But the occasional experience of jangled nerves is not a proper basis for a diagnosis of ADHD. Unfortunately, there has been great confusion between the actual disorder, and its misuse as a label for simply feeling distracted.
So to help set the record straight and to tease out fact from fiction, I’ll be attending a forum on Capitol Hill with my co-bloggers Dr. Kevin Pho and Dr. Rob Lamberts.
If you’re in the DC area, please come and join us in person. If you’d like to view some of the event via the Internet, we’ll be conducting live interviews with the speakers on Ustream. You can join the conversation by asking your questions in real time in the chat room starting at 2:00PM (EST) on Thursday, September 16, 2010. Please save the Ustream link to join the conversation: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fact-or-fiction-adhd-in-america. Read more »
September 14th, 2010 by Berci in Announcements, Better Health Network, News
Tags: Doctors On Twitter, Doctors Who Tweet, General Medicine, Healthcare Social Media, Medicine and Social Media, Physicians On Twitter, Social Media In Medicine, The Independent, Top 5 Doctors On Twitter, Tweeting Doctors, Twitter Doctors, Twitterdoctors.net
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I got the honour to be included in the list of the top 5 [Twitter] doctors in medicine published by The Independent. The list was based on Twitterdoctors.net which uses the Klout algorithm for determining the influence of tweeting doctors:
TwitterDoctors.net updates hourly the influence of doctors tweeting based on their activity, RTs (retweets) and followers. The site began its list at the end of July and boasts “1287 doctors with more joining every day” from around the globe including Australia, Belgium, India, UK, Jamaica, Japan, Colombia and the USA.
On September 7, the top five most influential doctors are:
1. @DRoftheVaJayJay
2. @drdrew
3. @brontyman
4. @Berci
5. @hrana
It doesn’t mean that much, but it’s good to know people like the content I share day by day.
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
August 3rd, 2010 by Maria Gifford in Announcements, Better Health Network, Humor, Medblogger Shout Outs, Opinion
Tags: Australian Physicians, Best Of The Medical Blogosphere, Better Health, Deadly Aussie Animal, Down Under, General Medicine, Grand Rounds, Heard Around The MedBlogosphere, Killer Posts, Life in the Fast Lane, Medbloggers, Medblogging, Medical Blogging, Medical Humor, Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine
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Better Health’s Grand Rounds this week is hosted by the ever-so-crafty Life in the Fast Lane team of Australian physicians at the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine.
These docs “take great pleasure in sharing their medical experiences, clinical knowledge and insights into waiting-room medicine with health-conscious technophiles to facilitate the learning process by providing diverse and hopefully entertaining reading material.” It’s always worth a read (and a chuckle), no doubt.
With the theme of “Killer Posts” (just a hint — hate to blow the surprise), this edition of Grand Rounds is sure to educate in more ways than one! Experience it HERE.
