Healthcare Loves Twitter

Healthcare is finding some very good uses for Twitter these days, all you have to do is look around a bit and see all those members in healthcare. I know I would be lost without it today. You are never too old to use Twitter either, in a somewhat related story, this 104 year old woman uses both Twitter and Facebook.

The Medical Quack: Healthcare on Twitter Feed – Added to the Medical Quack

If you scroll down to the right hand side of this blog, you can see healthcare conversations going on in real time with Twitter.

Also mentioned is TrialX, which has been featured many times on the blog and if you are looking for a simple way to locate and participate in Clinical Trials, this is it, and they also have a Twitter application.

TrialX and CenterWatch Partner to Help Locate Additional Clinical Trial Information - Integrate with Personal Health Records

As a physician, do you read journals, use Twitter, it will make the process much easier. You can read major newspapers this way too. These are just a couple quick examples on how you might use Twitter, reading material. I talk to many physicians and others in healthcare who are finding the value of what Twitter has to offer. BD

Twitter has found its place in healthcare, according to a report in Telemedicine and e-Health, which notes that doctors, hospitals and health agencies have started to deliver medicine via Tweet. Indeed, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hospitals such as the University of Maryland Medical System, and individual physicians have all taken to contacting patients through the popular microblogging platform.

The site's healthcare reach has caught the attention of vendors, too. Since March, a service called TrialX has been connecting patients with clinical trials, using Twitter.

"The company integrated with two online personal health record providers: Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault," the report states.