Healthcare’s uncommon uses of social networking

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Social networks of care Dr. Sawad Thotathil Care Coordinates sawad72@yahoo.com


Providers and social platforms 

Social platforms provide numerous ways to connect providers and/or patients

Provider collaboration using online groups are a powerful new way to help patients as it can overcome the hurdles in conventional forms of engagement.

Here we discuss 3 different use cases

Platforms used – Salesforce, Facebook

Identities have been blackened out where necessary


Patient centered Groups ď‚—

Healthcare workers caring for a patient in the community maybe located at different sites/organizations

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They would want to update each other about what is happening with the patient

The next 2 slides demonstrate how different members of a hospitalist post discharge team collaborated using Salesforce




Multi-team collaboration ď‚—

There are often multiple teams collaborating to achieve seamless care

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These teams are often different businesses located at different sites, and may never even meet each other

The next slide demonstrates how 2 teams, one in the hospital and a practice in the community collaborate using Salesforce to hand-off care



Knowledge sharing by providers ď‚—

Closed provider groups can be used for knowledge sharing and problem solving

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Members can bring up clinical and scientific issues as well as specific problems they come across while treating patients

The next 2 slides are from the largest and most active forum of doctors (7000 plus members) on Facebook that was started by Dr.Abha Majumdar, a leading IVF practitioner in India




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