Social media in Healthcare
What does "Patient empowerment" mean to you? As a person, as a patient, as a relative to a chronic diseased person, as a caregiver, as a child of a sick person, as a sick person, as a parent of a sick kid, etc what does it mean to you? How would you see yourself "empowered? Is Social Media helping you facing your illness? How? What did healthcare social media already bring to you?
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http://ec.europa.eu/ehealth
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Great question. I was
Great question. I was speaking about social media in age care in last year. The essence is this:
1) Seeking a place is much easier and provides much better insight in existing experience
2) Elderly trained to use social media are so much more likely to overcome depressions or frustrations as they are so well connected to the world and existing company from sometimes very diverse geographies
And a bunch of other advantages.
For information, the AAL
For information, the AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) Joint Programme call AAL-2009-2 was: “ICT based solutions for Advancement of Social Interaction of Elderly People”
http://www.aal-europe.eu/calls/aal-2009-2
The funded projects:
http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/Ongoing%20Projects
Dear Corinne,
Dear Corinne,
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Empowered is being provided the tools to mine information and communicate with others.
Everyone can do work that in the past was only done by professionals. (up to a certain level).
Patient empowerement in return empower organizations to be more customer-centric, have shorter development cycles (by involving patients/stakeholders), better to-market rates (patients/stakeholders can be turned in advocates) and so on.
We are involved in two
We are involved in two projects (Carer+ and Carenet, both EC funded projects) relating to digital technologies (wider than just social media) and carers, caregivers and care recipients. Both projects have only just started and will explore over the next two/three years this whole area. I will be able to put links to the projects in the coming months, but we are still in the kick off phase.