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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