Health Highlights From The New Media Academic Summit
I recently spoke at the panel on transparency at Edelman’s New Media Academic Summit. Ben Boyd was the moderator and Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation was my fellow panelist.
Reviewing some of the #nmas10 tweets from the audience, I figured I should provide some links for the anecdotes I mentioned:
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CEO Paul Levy’s blog is still the starting point when talking about transparency in medicine today. I had the chance to speak with him a few years ago.
- Ed Bennett has done an extraordinary job following hospital social media adoption and highlights effective new media policies as well.
- Hospitals are using twitter and billboards to broadcast emergency department waiting room times. This is not without risk, as billboards may not clarify the triage process, where seriously-ill patients will be seen right away.
- ACEP president Angela Gardner’s Twitter feed and ACEP’s blog.
- A recap of Better Health bloggers’ meeting with Rep. Jack Ryan last summer during the healthcare reform debate.
- Recent articles from NEJM and JAMA articles on medical students and social media.
- A lot of the developments in openness in peer review and the world of grant funding are chronicled at Nature’s Peer-to-Peer blog. Bora Zivkovic has been and active an articulate defender of open publications as well.
Special thanks to Dr. Val Jones of Better Health for getting me involved with this group.
*This blog post was originally published at Blogborygmi*
