Is Health-related Search Dying?

{ Posted on Jul 07 2011 by webgeek }
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Recently I was doing some research using Google Insight and I discovered downward trend in health-related search terms since 2004. This decline is pretty significant, as much as 80% in some cases. Check out the graphs below: Are users ...Read More »

A REAL Terminator would NOT need a heads up display

{ Posted on Apr 01 2011 by webgeek }
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Categories : health technology
Or, Why Healthcare Needs Calm Technology Yeah I know it’s just science fiction, but bear with me. For a long time I’ve tried to figure out why a Terminator robot might need a heads-up display.  In the movie we see through ...Read More »

John Eudes

{ Posted on Feb 16 2011 by webgeek }
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I just learned that Greystone.net founder John Eudes passed away late yesterday afternoon after a long battle with cancer.  Greystone has placed a nice memorial to him on the homepage of their site. I had known John for about ten years ...Read More »

Have you got a case of the Microsites?

{ Posted on Feb 03 2011 by webgeek }
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The Microsite is generally regarded as the bane of the hospital webmaster's existence. "Microsite" is the common name for a particularly vicious species of wingless insect that burrows under the webmaster's scalp and releases a toxin that causes temporary numbness ...Read More »

Starting your own blog

{ Posted on Jan 30 2011 by webgeek }
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I get a lot of requests from people about how to start their own blog so I put up a page with a simple guide called "How to Start a Blog" for those who may be interested. Nothing fancy just ...Read More »

Mayo Center for Social Media finally adds MDs to Board Roster

{ Posted on Jan 26 2011 by webgeek }
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Categories : Healthcare Social Media
Mayo announced new board members for its Center for Social Media this morning.  Eight MDs, two medical school students and one PsyD made the roster. The infusion of many doctor types can be no accident this time. When the Center was ...Read More »

Former Beth Israel Deaconess CEO and Blogger Paul Levy gets $1.6m

{ Posted on Jan 24 2011 by webgeek }
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Categories : Healthcare News
Anyone who has followed the healthcare social media scene over the past couple years is bound to be familiar with Paul Levy's blog, "Running a Hospital."   I noticed awhile back that he changed the name of his blog to ...Read More »

The Mobile Health Market and the Hospital Website

{ Posted on Jan 23 2011 by webgeek }
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Categories : mobile health
According to a report on NextGov the mobile health market is set to grow to $4.6 billion by 2014 and  $12 billion by 2020. Most of this growth will be driven by the baby-boomer generation who will saturate the healthcare ...Read More »

Do Hospital Websites still need Health Content?

{ Posted on Jan 21 2011 by webgeek }
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Categories : Health Content
Once or twice a year we look at how much we're spending on our consumer health content. When there is so much more readily available content on the web, we ask why the hospital website need its own health library. We know that ...Read More »

Piedmont Hospital and the Snowpocalypse

{ Posted on Jan 20 2011 by webgeek }
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During the week of January 10-14 Atlanta was subjected to some of the most severe snow and ice in recent memory. For a southern town with less than ten snow plows, four to six inches of snow pretty much shuts ...Read More »
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