This presentation was held during the Social Media in Rural Areas workshop, organised by the Vasco da Gama Movement and EURIPA in the WONCA World Congress 2013 in Prague.
The presentation is an introduction to Twitter and to an online collaborative platform for research projects.
Social Media in Patient Recruiment Andrew SmithAndrew M Smith
Slides from a short presentation on how you might use social media around clinical trials, to build reputation and attract/retain patients to take part in clinical trials
Crash course given for Lupus Europe in the Convention held in Helsinki in September 2014 to explain why it is so important that patient associations are into social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and all what they can achieve by being social.
You may find more information and reports for this event at http://www.lupus-europe.org/activities/conventions/helsinki-2014/programme/session-details/article/leraning-about-social-media
How Social Media Can Change Health Professions Education | AIAMC 2015michelleclin
My plenary talk at the 2015 Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) about my experiences and insights about social media from my perspective as an educator and Editor in Chief of Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (http://aliem.com)
Twitter is the third most popular search engine for news, information, and engagement. Learn how to use Twitter, top tools, and develop relationships for business professionals of all backgrounds as well as HR, Recruiting, and Talent Management.
Social Media in Patient Recruiment Andrew SmithAndrew M Smith
Slides from a short presentation on how you might use social media around clinical trials, to build reputation and attract/retain patients to take part in clinical trials
Crash course given for Lupus Europe in the Convention held in Helsinki in September 2014 to explain why it is so important that patient associations are into social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and all what they can achieve by being social.
You may find more information and reports for this event at http://www.lupus-europe.org/activities/conventions/helsinki-2014/programme/session-details/article/leraning-about-social-media
How Social Media Can Change Health Professions Education | AIAMC 2015michelleclin
My plenary talk at the 2015 Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) about my experiences and insights about social media from my perspective as an educator and Editor in Chief of Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (http://aliem.com)
Twitter is the third most popular search engine for news, information, and engagement. Learn how to use Twitter, top tools, and develop relationships for business professionals of all backgrounds as well as HR, Recruiting, and Talent Management.
I was invited to talk to the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis, Dorset on 20th August 29015 about the benefits and disadvantages of using social media to promote events/fundraising activities.
The workshop was held in WONCA Europe 2012.
Peer reviewed medical journals are important media for the publication of articles relevant to Primary Health Care and General Practice, such as research papers, reviews of literature, clinical lessons, and opinion papers. They are the means to disseminate original research results and educational information, discuss available evidence and share experiences.
This workshop aimed at giving knowledge to the participants about successfully preparing a manuscript for medical journals
WONCA Environmental Working Group - Presentation in the World Preconference P...Vasco da Gama Movement
No point keeping head in the sand about major global environmental problems. Environmental problems amplify existing Global Health Problems. This is the presentation of the WONCA Environmental Working Group that was held in the World Preconference in Prague in June 2013.
We are delighted to welcome you to the World Preconference!
The event is organized jointly by the Vasco da Gama Movement, the Rajakumar Movement, the Waynakay Movement and the Spice Route.
The following document is intended to give you an idea of our Movements and what the Preconference entails, as well as to offer an overview to some areas of relevance to this year’s theme: Care for Generations.
Finally, we really do hope that this booklet will start “infecting” you with the very powerful WONCA Virus and will encourage you to establish links with other colleagues from all over the world!
I was invited to talk to the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis, Dorset on 20th August 29015 about the benefits and disadvantages of using social media to promote events/fundraising activities.
The workshop was held in WONCA Europe 2012.
Peer reviewed medical journals are important media for the publication of articles relevant to Primary Health Care and General Practice, such as research papers, reviews of literature, clinical lessons, and opinion papers. They are the means to disseminate original research results and educational information, discuss available evidence and share experiences.
This workshop aimed at giving knowledge to the participants about successfully preparing a manuscript for medical journals
WONCA Environmental Working Group - Presentation in the World Preconference P...Vasco da Gama Movement
No point keeping head in the sand about major global environmental problems. Environmental problems amplify existing Global Health Problems. This is the presentation of the WONCA Environmental Working Group that was held in the World Preconference in Prague in June 2013.
We are delighted to welcome you to the World Preconference!
The event is organized jointly by the Vasco da Gama Movement, the Rajakumar Movement, the Waynakay Movement and the Spice Route.
The following document is intended to give you an idea of our Movements and what the Preconference entails, as well as to offer an overview to some areas of relevance to this year’s theme: Care for Generations.
Finally, we really do hope that this booklet will start “infecting” you with the very powerful WONCA Virus and will encourage you to establish links with other colleagues from all over the world!
Peer reviewed medical journals are important media for the publication of articles relevant to Primary Health Care and General Practice, such as research papers, reviews of literature, clinical lessons, and opinion papers. They are the means to disseminate original research results and educational information, discuss available evidence and share experiences.
This workshop aims to give participants knowledge about successfully preparing a manuscript for medical journals
Use and Applications of Social Media in ResearchHarris Lygidakis
This is a presentation about the Use and Applications of Social Media in Medical Research.
A big thanks to the #hcsmanz community and all the Twitter and Social Media users that made this presentation possible by providing valuable material.
The healthcare industry is shaped by growing and evolving privacy regulations, staffing shortages, and increasing demand for services. Faced with these challenges, it is easy to understand why adoption of social media for marketing, collaboration and client communication has been an uphill battle. Healthcare professionals don’t know where to begin with sites like Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. They may also have trouble understanding how these networks can enhance their existing initiatives in either marketing, support or internal operations.
This is a variation of a previous slide deck on #HealthXPh. Presented at the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society postgraduate course, UP College of Medicine 22 April 2015.
This is the PowerPoint presentation that accompanies Dan Dunlop's social media webinar conducted on October 20, 2009. For more information, visit Dan's blog at http://thehealthcaremarketer.wordpress.com or http://healthcaremarketing.ning.com. For information about Dan's company, Jennings, visit http://www.jenningsco.com.
Utilize Digital and Social Media Data to Inform Your Research in Novel WaysKatja Reuter, PhD
In collaboration with Audun Utengen and Thomas Lee from Symplur LLC, we explore the usage of digital and social media data to inform research in novel ways and discover emerging health trends, disease communities and outreach mechanisms.
This presentation is part of the Digital Scholar Training Series at USC and CHLA.
Learn more about the initiative: http://sc-ctsi.org/digital-scholar/
News story: http://sc-ctsi.org/index.php/news/new-digital-scholar-training-initiative-helps-researchers-better-utilize-we#.VDhIWWK9mKU
NonProfits can use Twitter to successfully engage donors, create event buzz, recruit volunteers, and gain exposure. Find out how to best use this powerful tool.
Answer these 5 questions as related to social media:
1) What the heck is it?
2) Is it a fad?
3) Why are some afraid of it?
4) Why do we often get it wrong?
5) How do we do it right?
Webinar materials prepared for Association for Community-Affilitated Plans (ACAP). Healthcare consumerism is coming - are you prepared? As industry changes, so consumers adapt, and today's consumers have a world of information and engagement tools at their fingertips. In this webinar, learn how health insurance organizations and other healthcare companies can increase and improve their consumer experience through meaningful engagement, through social media.
What Every Hospital Communicator Should Say – In 140 Characters or LessRMH Healthcare
Twitter can help connect you with your staff, patients and community. During this presentation, you'll learn the best ways to create an engaging feed.
Featuring Holly Martin (media specialist) and Ryan Hildebrand (web specialist) for RMH Healthcare in Harrisonburg, Va.
This course is aimed at communicators who want to learn how to establish a Twitter voice, set goals and learn how to tie other social media accounts into the feed.
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Microteaching is a unique model of practice teaching. It is a viable instrument for the. desired change in the teaching behavior or the behavior potential which, in specified types of real. classroom situations, tends to facilitate the achievement of specified types of objectives.
Acute scrotum is a general term referring to an emergency condition affecting the contents or the wall of the scrotum.
There are a number of conditions that present acutely, predominantly with pain and/or swelling
A careful and detailed history and examination, and in some cases, investigations allow differentiation between these diagnoses. A prompt diagnosis is essential as the patient may require urgent surgical intervention
Testicular torsion refers to twisting of the spermatic cord, causing ischaemia of the testicle.
Testicular torsion results from inadequate fixation of the testis to the tunica vaginalis producing ischemia from reduced arterial inflow and venous outflow obstruction.
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New Directions in Targeted Therapeutic Approaches for Older Adults With Mantl...i3 Health
i3 Health is pleased to make the speaker slides from this activity available for use as a non-accredited self-study or teaching resource.
This slide deck presented by Dr. Kami Maddocks, Professor-Clinical in the Division of Hematology and
Associate Division Director for Ambulatory Operations
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, will provide insight into new directions in targeted therapeutic approaches for older adults with mantle cell lymphoma.
STATEMENT OF NEED
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) accounting for 5% to 7% of all lymphomas. Its prognosis ranges from indolent disease that does not require treatment for years to very aggressive disease, which is associated with poor survival (Silkenstedt et al, 2021). Typically, MCL is diagnosed at advanced stage and in older patients who cannot tolerate intensive therapy (NCCN, 2022). Although recent advances have slightly increased remission rates, recurrence and relapse remain very common, leading to a median overall survival between 3 and 6 years (LLS, 2021). Though there are several effective options, progress is still needed towards establishing an accepted frontline approach for MCL (Castellino et al, 2022). Treatment selection and management of MCL are complicated by the heterogeneity of prognosis, advanced age and comorbidities of patients, and lack of an established standard approach for treatment, making it vital that clinicians be familiar with the latest research and advances in this area. In this activity chaired by Michael Wang, MD, Professor in the Department of Lymphoma & Myeloma at MD Anderson Cancer Center, expert faculty will discuss prognostic factors informing treatment, the promising results of recent trials in new therapeutic approaches, and the implications of treatment resistance in therapeutic selection for MCL.
Target Audience
Hematology/oncology fellows, attending faculty, and other health care professionals involved in the treatment of patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Learning Objectives
1.) Identify clinical and biological prognostic factors that can guide treatment decision making for older adults with MCL
2.) Evaluate emerging data on targeted therapeutic approaches for treatment-naive and relapsed/refractory MCL and their applicability to older adults
3.) Assess mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies for MCL and their implications for treatment selection
The prostate is an exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system
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A healthy human prostate measures (4cm-vertical, by 3cm-horizontal, 2cm ant-post ).
It surrounds the urethra just below the urinary bladder. It has anterior, median, posterior and two lateral lobes
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Generalised disease of the prostate due to hormonal derangement which leads to non malignant enlargement of the gland (increase in the number of epithelial cells and stromal tissue)to cause compression of the urethra leading to symptoms (LUTS
Recomendações da OMS sobre cuidados maternos e neonatais para uma experiência pós-natal positiva.
Em consonância com os ODS – Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável e a Estratégia Global para a Saúde das Mulheres, Crianças e Adolescentes, e aplicando uma abordagem baseada nos direitos humanos, os esforços de cuidados pós-natais devem expandir-se para além da cobertura e da simples sobrevivência, de modo a incluir cuidados de qualidade.
Estas diretrizes visam melhorar a qualidade dos cuidados pós-natais essenciais e de rotina prestados às mulheres e aos recém-nascidos, com o objetivo final de melhorar a saúde e o bem-estar materno e neonatal.
Uma “experiência pós-natal positiva” é um resultado importante para todas as mulheres que dão à luz e para os seus recém-nascidos, estabelecendo as bases para a melhoria da saúde e do bem-estar a curto e longo prazo. Uma experiência pós-natal positiva é definida como aquela em que as mulheres, pessoas que gestam, os recém-nascidos, os casais, os pais, os cuidadores e as famílias recebem informação consistente, garantia e apoio de profissionais de saúde motivados; e onde um sistema de saúde flexível e com recursos reconheça as necessidades das mulheres e dos bebês e respeite o seu contexto cultural.
Estas diretrizes consolidadas apresentam algumas recomendações novas e já bem fundamentadas sobre cuidados pós-natais de rotina para mulheres e neonatos que recebem cuidados no pós-parto em unidades de saúde ou na comunidade, independentemente dos recursos disponíveis.
É fornecido um conjunto abrangente de recomendações para cuidados durante o período puerperal, com ênfase nos cuidados essenciais que todas as mulheres e recém-nascidos devem receber, e com a devida atenção à qualidade dos cuidados; isto é, a entrega e a experiência do cuidado recebido. Estas diretrizes atualizam e ampliam as recomendações da OMS de 2014 sobre cuidados pós-natais da mãe e do recém-nascido e complementam as atuais diretrizes da OMS sobre a gestão de complicações pós-natais.
O estabelecimento da amamentação e o manejo das principais intercorrências é contemplada.
Recomendamos muito.
Vamos discutir essas recomendações no nosso curso de pós-graduação em Aleitamento no Instituto Ciclos.
Esta publicação só está disponível em inglês até o momento.
Prof. Marcus Renato de Carvalho
www.agostodourado.com
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Using Twitter & a Collaborative Research Platform in Rural Areas
1. USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN RURAL AREAS
HARRIS LYGIDAKIS
@lygidakis
it.linkedin.com/in/lygidakis
2. Our actions, or endeavors, are
centrifugal in nature. Our efforts
extend from the center, which is
us, and are meant for a global audience
thirsty for healthcare knowledge, to
learn from our experience, and to have
a better understanding of their
healthcare related issue.
CENTRIFUGALVS. CENTRIPETAL
HOWARD J. LUKS
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7. Mayo Clinic: A 12-Word Social Media Policy
Don’t Lie, Don’t Pry
Don’t Cheat, Can’t Delete
Don’t Steal, Don’t Reveal
8.
9. How is it possible that such a short medium can have an impact on
medical, scientific, research and academic circles and what can be
said in 140 characters that may interest them?
10. Thousands of HCPs, academics and researchers of
any level and experience useTwitter each day!
11. Twitter
A micro-blogging service that enables users to send small
public messages (tweets).
It’s largely an open platform.
Tweets are limited to 140 characters and they can include
photos, videos and links.
To start usingTwitter, you need only 10 minutes!
21. Find your Audience & Interact
Follow users
Retweet & Comment
Reply openly to others
Mention them
Send a private Direct Message
22. Good Practices
2.0 = Content + Engagement
Be precise, concise and persistent.
Choose one topic and follow that path.
23. Noise vs. Signal: Hashtags
They help categorize the tweets.
It’s like following a thematic channel with tweets. If
you search for a hashtag (for instance, #diabetes,
#obesity, #primarycare), the result is a list of all
the tweets that include this hashtag, even those
from users you don’t follow.
39. Impact Factor: A New Generation
Twimpact factor (TWIF): Number of mentionings in tweets
(tweetations) within first 7 days after article publication.
Twindex7: Rank percentile of this article when its twimpact
factor is compared to 19 previously published articles.
Eysenbach G: “Highly tweeted articles were 11 times more
likely to be highly cited.”
46. HOW MIGHT WE …?
HMW make research multi-ethnic?
HMW enable coordination & engagement?
HMW involve patients?
47. We are developing an online platform,
specific for biomedical research studies,
which enables a holistic approach
for the development and coordination of projects,
and the collaboration among the stakeholders.
60. By providing tools to
patient associations
in their bottom-up
approach of carrying
out research projects,
their advocacy role
will be enhanced and
their members will be
empowered to
participate more
actively.
61. Research quality can
be improved when
patients partner with
researchers and
policy makers in
setting up projects
with common
objectives.
62. Patients are
(re)positioned at
the center of
healthcare and their
involvement in
decision-making
becomes the
cornerstone of the
new era of medicine
and research.
Editor's Notes
1) Twitter is certainly one of the easiest social media platforms out there, on which you can find and connect with individuals who share your interests.2)One that encourages connecting with people who we otherwise may never have known. And that holds true when you consider Twitter for healthcare.
(1) This way you create a personalized feed that matches your professional, research and clinical interests.
You have to provide content, be engaged, be precise, concise & persistent…
Now let’s see whathashtags are…(1) By using them, you can label tweets so that other users can see tweets on the same topic.
Let’s take a closer look; you see that each one of these tweets has the #primarycarehashtag
Let’s take a closer look; you see that each one of these tweets has the #primarycarehashtag
So why are they useful?Remember: the community is filtering for you! If you follow a hashtag, for instance #primarycare, you will find the most important related updates everyday.
Does that look complicated or cluttered to you?There are other ways to visualize content!For instance there’s Flipboard for iPad/iPhone and Storify for all platformsThey are a great way to visualize things in a Newspaper-like or Storyboard-like way
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Automatic transcripts of tweet chats can be provided for future reference and use for educational purposes
Another fantastic way of using Twitter is the Journal Clubs;You can pre-share a paper which will be discussed during the session and on a pre-determined time & date participants join Twitter and comment on it in a moderated tweet-chat.
They are used by JMIR; Of course their use is quite limited & entails many biasesIndeed this is not exactly how SoMe will be implemented & used in the future, but it’s a good indication of the things to come
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For many years I have been involved in small clinical studies as a GP. From that experience I have come to notice some problems:Imagine the Challenge of Collaborative Research:Imagine how difficult it is for clinicians and researchers to collect data from different sources, from rural and isolated areas, developing countries, contexts with limited financial and technical resources.Consider the challenge of coordinating researchers, increasing their response rates and the collection of follow-up data.Think how demanding it is to deal with different healthcare systems, organizational models and a variety of individual, community and administrative issues, while trying to offer the best for the patients.The current methods are problematic: paper questionnaires, data inconsistency; the lack of Electronic Medical Records, the user-unfriendly and unstandardized programs
(Research is not only about white, healthy males from urban cities)How might we make research multi-ethnic and to take account of the whole world regardless of the area of origin and disease.How might we help the coordination and engagement of researchers, located in different geographical regions including the developing countries?(Patients are increasingly interested in sharing their experiences and learning about their conditions, their prevention and treatments)How might we enable patients to carry out their own surveys while raising awareness on health issues and conditions.
We are developing an online platform, specific for biomedical research studies,which enables a holistic approach for the development and coordination of projects,and the collaborationamong the stakeholders.
There are tools that aid the creation of questionnaires with customizable fields and variables and their organization in libraries;in this example we’re setting up a questionnaire for smokers who suffer from depression and we are adding the Fagerstrom test.
Then you can design different types of studies (for instance, with multiple cohorts, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies)/////******In this example we can see a Randomized Control Trial for the Cognitive Behavior Therapy in smokers: there are two groups (one control and one for the intervention) and two rounds of evaluation
It also helps with the management of subjects participating in more than one studies.
Furthermore, offline functionality is provided, which may be of help to clinicians carrying out house calls or to those working in rural areas with intermittent Internet connection./////**** The synchronization of all the data with those stored on the cloud occurs when the Internet connection is available.
1. Patients are increasingly interested in sharing their experiences and learning about their conditions.2.The Internet-savvy users, the so called e-patients, seek online health information, connect and collaborate with the others and take advantage of this medium not only for decision making and management of their own condition, but also for education and advocacy purposes.In fact, the advances in connectivity and the wide availability of data are shifting healthcare towards real patient-centeredness, and even in more rigorously scientific areas, such as research, the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is bound to cause a wave of transformations.
1. We were approached by the Federation of Diabetics of the Emilia Romagna.They were interested in exploring whether they could employ Lumos! for one of their projects.2. Their objective was to distribute a questionnaire in cooperation with the Regional Administration and the RHS, investigating the behavior, necessities, expectations and relationship with the RHS of the diabetics that receive insulin treatment and use blood glucose self-monitoring devices.A questionnaire had already been developed and approved by Regional authorities.
The platform could easily be extended and tailored for special purposes, such as its employment as software for the needs of research studies that are carried out anonymously by email.It was transformed into an open public survey tool with support of characteristics from studies (multiple follow-ups and cohorts).
Our opportunity: To work with patients associationsFollowing discussions with the organizers of the project, specific features have been added, such as control of the number of submitted questionnairesautomatic creation of QR codesability to overview the process with the help of simple reportsLaunched in February 2013; expected to be completed in June 2013.
In support of the public and media campaign that aimed to raise awareness of the study,a URL and a QR code linking to the questionnaire have been produced and published on Social Networks and websites encouraging people to participate in the study.
This is the tailored installation of the platform
And here’s the electronic version of the structured questionnaire that was built
During the project the coordinators are able to create reports, run functions, produce 2x2 tables, and eventually export the database for further statistical analysis, and transfer the data of the existing cohort for future follow-up projects.
Though tt is focused on healthcare and its specific needs. This experience has been proven valuable for us: we realised what an import part the patient involvement can make in the research processc) patient associations will be supported in their healthcare-related and awareness-raising campaigns and their members will be encouraged in participating in healthcare more actively.d) The cloud and the power of intervention is bound to change this sector as well.
As with medicine, (1) medical research needs a revolution, or to use the famous Eric Topol’s quote, it needs to be creatively destroyed.And if medicine is quite stiff to undergo a change, medical research seems to be even more unconquerable.(2) How can we optimize participation?(3) What about employing a crowdsourcing model for the healthcare professionals doing research?(4) What about inviting researchers and physicians to select the area of their interest on which they would like to make a contribution?This way researchers working in small rural villages may have the opportunity to contribute as much as physicians from large urban centers.
By providing tools to patient associations in their bottom-up approach of carrying out research projects, their advocacy role will be enhanced and their members will be empowered to participate more actively.HCPs are bound to shift their culture and become partners with patients
Research quality can be improved when patients partner with researchers and policy makers in setting up projects with common objectives.The results of this project are expected to lead to an evaluation of the ways of achieving higher engagement from the participants.
Patients are finally (re)positioned at the center of healthcare and their involvement in decision-making becomes the cornerstone of the new era of medicine and research.