Wednesday, April 23, 2008

California HealthCare Foundation: Social Media's Impact on Health Care

The California HealthCare Foundation has issued a new report, The Wisdom of Patients" Health Care Meets Online Social Media, authored by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist, management consultant and fellow health care blogger at Health Populi.

The report covers a lot of territory and provides a great overview of the quickly evolving and developing health care social media and health 2.0 movement. The report highlights how health care consumers are becoming empowered by social media and the overall impact the live web is having on patients, providers, insurers, etc.

Online health care is moving from one based on "health information retrieval" to patients and providers generating and sharing content online. This growing online collaboration is leading to unique approaches to care and a larger value proposition of harnessing the collective wisdom for other purposes including -- coordination of care, clinical insight, higher quality, prevention, etc. In the end, this may even lead to more cost efficient care.

A special thanks to Jane for interviewing me and acknowledging me in the report for my insight on some of the health care legal implications .

To borrow a quote from Secretary Leavitt courtesy of Fred Fortin who I have been following as he micro-blog via Twitter at the World Health Care Conference, "pong and Wii. We are just leaving the pong era in health care . . . "

For more on the new report check out CHCF's Press Release and a summary of the report (download full report).

3 comments:

steve said...

Great to read that the California
Online health care are shooting guns in the air... and this program is effective which in turn brings the cost factor down...
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Steve
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Anonymous said...

Great information Bob. Everyday, I see Social Media is becoming more of a preferred method of communication.

I just wrote a post on "Social Media For Health Care" I would love to know your opinion on it. Are there special challenges for the Health Care Industry?

http://blog.business-bits.com/?p=12

Keep up the great work.

Jim

amandaa6116 said...

good job california health foundation, i think this site will defenitly going to help people because it provides every information related to health and their solution.
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