A Few of Our Favorite Twitter Questions & Comments from Symposium 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
| Jennifer Priester
During last month's Connected Health Symposium, Twitter once again played a big role in helping attendees keep up with the conversation, connect with one another, and ask important questions that we will all still be thinking and debating about long after the Park Plaza Hotel emptied out.
We went through the Symposium Tweetstream (#chs11) and picked out just a sampling of the many, many interesting Tweets that were posted during the event.
We thought you would have some interesting answers to these questions and comments posted by some of the Symposium Twitterati. So take a look and let us know your thoughts, we're looking forward to hearing from you!
@apdolan:
How could treating patients as allies get us closer to this ideal world of better care / lower costs? #chs11#s4pm #ONC
@mdlifesci:
Atul Gawande stresses need to focus on design/implementation of solutions for 5% of patients that account for 50% of healthcare costs #chs11
@jacthong:
@apdolan if pts are allies & are better prepared, informed for discussion with docs: more accurate diagnosis, more effective tx?#chs11
@pamressler:
Getting data at home that one cannot always observe in the MDs office is a wonderful use of connected health for pediatric data #chs11
@beclosedotcom:
"Medicine needs to prioritize. We shd focus on the 5% that incurs 50% of our medical costs. Get them healthier earlier"@Atul_Gawande #chs11
@techguy:
Cardiocam - Heart rate measurements with your webcam. WOW! That's amazing and a great illustration of the future of quantitative self #chs11
@LizBoehm:
@Atul_Gawande: what healthcare needs is measurement, innovative solutions, implementation at scale, prioritization. #chs11
@apdolan:
Like the idea of how we could "help disrupt health care" - and how that can be a good thing. XPrize. #chs11
@MartinSizemore:
Love the X Prize speaker: Healthcare isn't rocket science . . . It's a lot harder. #chs11
@ICherryBlsm:
should MDs, nurses, etc recommend online pt communities? -yes! #chs11
@MGHDiabetesEd:
"online patient communities can increase engagement, decrease isolation" #chs11
@JessicaCorwin:
30% of kids go online for health information. How do we balance OPCs with privacy? #chs11
@apdolan:
#1 thing patients say when they find online connection with fellow patients: I finally feel like I'm not alone. #powerful #potential #chs11
@connectedhealth:
Social media can help make a disease more than just a disease for teens @drjosephkim #chs11
@pamressler:
We need to be inter-generational in our social media "prescription" including seniors as well as youth #chs11
@Dermdoc:
Online patient communities won't be connected with health delivery because of the liability risk for the providers #chs11 What do you think?
@CarissaO:
We focus on mobile as a tool for accessing information, but it's important to remember it also aids patient data capture.#chs11
@pamressler:
Mobile devices create a more personal connection/relationship than desktops or laptops #chs11
@LizBoehm:
Why design: If people (especially consumers) don't love it, they won't use it. #chs11
@LizBoehm:
To change behavior, incent the people your targets hang out with. #chs11
@sonnyvu:
Bickmore: 75% of people prefer Louise (virtual #nurse -http://bit.ly/nQ0z50) vs. real docs; machines cared more, more useful info #chs11
@pjmachado:
No one thinks that #ACO is the only model- #CMS innovation center will be piloting a range of payment & delivery models#chs11 #ACOchat
@Mark_Hanson:
Day 1 takeaway at #CHS11 RT @Dermdoc: "Connected patients are engaged patients. Engaged patients have better outcomes." ~ @jkvedar #epatient
@Rock_Health:
Should we be healthifying games or gamifying health? good question by @sonnyvu at #chs11 http://shar.es/b5QbG
@drnic1:
Remember when Skype was a typo, twitter was a sound & an app was something you mailed to a college #CHS11
@Behavior_Etc:
W. Shrank: Appropriate medication use (adherence) is critical to making incentives meaningful. #chs11
@pjmachado:
Better data, info flow, digital interventions, patient education, P4Q & Patient accountability will improve Adherence#CHS11
@LizBoehm:
SMS seems more direct. RT @SimonSikorskiMD: Do you think tweets can help patients adhere to medication? #chs11#hcsm #mdchat
@LizBoehm:
Idea that people will pay attention to health info because it's important, easy to access, and valuable is a fallacy. Clifford Nass.#chs11
@lisagualtieri:
@CliffNass: Redesign #health information to make multitaskers think they're miltitasking when they aren't #chs11
@CarissaO:
Communicating health issues to the chronically-distracted is a real issue, but I know social media is part of the solution. #chs11
@LizBoehm:
@VinceKuraitis - if we pay for monitoring, what we'll get is more monitoring. That's not necessarily better care. #chs11
@connectedhealth:
Quantification is critical to connected health @jkvedar #chs11
@connectedhealth:
@jkvedar some providers are suspicious of patient self-tracking, but if the tech is in patient's home that has 2b meaningful #chs11
@pjmachado:
Quantifying self will be expected as healthcare becomes Outcomes focused & population based-providers will expect/need patient data! #chs11
@MartinSizemore:
Decision fatigue is a function of poor information for the patient and a real issue in healthcare. How can technology help issue? #chs11
@taracousphd:
@kirschner - don't ignore facebook as a dev platform for consumer health innovations - better reach than downloading apps#chs11
@cbtadvisors:
Challenge: What has driven Facebook's insane growth, sharing w friends, is what HIPAA is designed to prevent@ScottKirsner #CHS11
@drnic1:
We need experimentation in h/c that allows outsiders in and learns from failure #CHS11
@Mark_Hanson:
Facebook= sharing, HIPAA=privacy: health technology consumerization faces an interesting philosophical dichotomy. ~ @ScottKirsner #CHS11
@connectedhealth:
Connected health program design - technology is not the intervention #chs11
@connectedhealth:
Connected health program design - the technology has to work so well that it's invisible #chs11
@techguy:
"The literature is overwhelmingly positive on the benefits of EHR, but the negative gets more attention." -Blumenthal at #chs11
@LizBoehm:
@Jkvedar - patients can do a lot of self-management if they have access to the data. #chs11
@Behavior_Etc:
@jkvedar Behavior change involves 1. Active reflection 2. Sentinel effect 3. Ability to take action #chs11
@connectedhealth:
#chs11 @jkvedar feedback loops work really well to promote behavior
@Mark_Hanson:
Day 2 takeaway at #CHS11: "Patients are our greatest untapped resource." Engagement drives quality up and costs down. ~ @jkvedar #CHS11
@CarissaO:
And we are ALL patients. RT @connectedhealth: #chs11@jkvedar patients are our greatest untapped resource