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Take Two Tweets…Social Media & Social Networking
in Physician’s Practices
Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPMKansas City Hospice & Palliative Care
Presented at: Medical Society of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties
October 8, 2010
Disclaimer• Founding partner in KLX Media, LLC
– Social media consulting for health care
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” “ -Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Learning Objectives
– Understand the definitions and potential impact of
social media and social networking for medicine
– Develop a comfort level with social media and
reduce risk
– Mitigate risk and privacy concerns from using
social media
200 Billion Hours/year
>500M active users700B minutes per month30B shared items per monthAverage user has 130 friends Source: Facebook.com Oct 2010
Source: Belliveau, Google Health/CNN
75%search the web aftertalking to their doctor
What is Social Media?Internet-based tools for
creating, sharing and discussing information
Social Networking
• Metcalfe’s Law• Value of a network is
proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2)– Number of users– Pattern of connectedness
Source: Wikipedia
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Opportunities• Start a conversation • Interact with your peers• Educate the public• Filtered search engine• Immediate feedback• Speak directly to your target audience• Get ahead of the competition• Build your brand online
Risks
• HIPAA violation• End a conversation• Make someone mad• Give out false information• Wasted time and effort• Risk your own privacy• Identity theft• Actual theft
Case Examples
• JAMA• Pallimed• Morphine concentrated liquid and the FDA
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First mention on Twitter
Re-tweeted in one hour
Re-tweeted again in few minutes
For more details on how social media/networking reversed the FDA in 9 days see Slideshare
Twitter Stats for @ctsinclair
Bit.ly Link Stats
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2010 Annual Assembly
The Long Tail Effect
Tweets Users Estimated Att. Days Tweets/
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attendees
ACC 10 1143 201 25000 4 286 8
AAHPM 2010 834 92 2400 3 278 38
AAHPM 2009 224 30 2200 3 75 14
Medical Conference Comparison
Type your Tweet hereRT = Re-tweet
#hpm automatically added
Your own tweet
Someone replying to you
Lots o’ links!
Reply
Re-Tweet
Quick Use Buttons
Feature/Block
Favorite Tweet
Visual Example of a Tweetchat
Tweetchat
Tweetchat
Group of people begin to have a conversation around a single hashtag
Tweetchat
Using Tweetchat they can all see the same thread
Tweetchat
All the people following the individuals see only a few tweets with #hpm
Tweetchat
Tweetchat
Tweetchat
Passed on to 2,838 followers
Tweetchat
SlideShare
Risks• HIPAA violation• End a conversation• Make someone mad• Give out false information• Wasted time and effort• Risk your own privacy• Identity theft• Actual theft• Risk if you don’t participate
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professionalism This is
Mitigating Risk
• Be professional• Be credible• Be responsible• If you pause, don’t publish• Don’t talk about cases, generalize• Don’t give specific advice• Have disclosure statements
Social Media Tools to Know
• 1st Tier – Be familiar– Facebook– YouTube– Twitter– Wikipedia– Blogs
• 2nd Tier – Read about it– LinkedIn– Slideshare– Yelp– Foursquare– Delicious– Digg– Yammer– Flickr– Ustream
Summary
• Social media and networking is all around• Use tools to understand usefulness• Conversations are happening
– How are you involved?• Security and privacy risks can be mitigated
– Be professional• This is just the beginning
Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPM
• Email– [email protected]
• Blog– Pallimed (iPhone app)
• Twitter– @ctsinclair– @Pallimed
• Facebook– Personal– Pallimed
• LinkedIn:– csinclair
• Delicious– ctsinclair
• Slideshare– ctsinclair
• Wikipedia– ctsinclair
• Digg– ctsinclair
• Foursquare– ctsinclair
• Yelp– csinclair
Let’s get connected!Skype: ctsinclair
Highly-Recommended Reading
• Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference
• Christakis and Fowler: Connected: The surprising power of our social networks
• Shirky: Here Comes Everybody: The power of organizing with organizations
Creative Commons
• Slide 3: Google Images• Slide 10: What the F**k is Social Media Now• Slide 11: iStockphoto• Slide 13: Flickr User: Stabilo Boss
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