HCSM Review #35: How social is changing healthcare content, participatory medicine, insurance indexes and patient support groups

We’re delighted to host the 35th edition of the Health Care Social Media Review. HCSM Review is a biweekly peer-reviewed blog carnival for published posts about social media use in healthcare. The three previous reviews were hosted by ZocDoc, SocialQI and Mayo Clinic. There simply could be no healthcare social media without content. Nothing to share or discuss on Twitter, nothing to like on Facebook and nothing to look at on Instagram. In this HCSM Review we take a close look at the topics of content curation, how tweet chats are changing healthcare, how social engagement is used to index health insurance providers and the use of social in assisting real-live support groups for college-age people with diabetes.   Steve Sisko (@ShimCode) sent us the article “Why Content Curation Matters To Healthcare Professionals” which is discussing how healthcare professionals are finding a huge gateway for reaching more potential patients and interested readers. Content curation is at the forefront of the movement to get more ideas and information out to the computer screens of more people. Marie Ennis (@JBBC) of which we had the pleasure to meet at #doctors20 in Paris this year shared with us a recent article she authored and titled “Can A Hashtag Change Healthcare? The Impact of Healthcare Tweet Chats” that dwells on a topic very near to our heart. “Social media is a radical shift in the way we communicate. The healthcare conversation is ...
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