Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4-5 weeks:

Twitter and Facebook: Potentially inappropriate attitudes towards professionalism were found among pharmacy students http://buff.ly/136KLJZ

Harnessing the cloud of patient experience: using social media to detect poor quality healthcare http://buff.ly/136KRkO

Social media and you: what every physician needs to know - J Med Pract Manage. http://buff.ly/ZFKvvw

How to Get RSS Feeds for Twitter http://bit.ly/Yp4VHq

Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service: Not much benfit http://buff.ly/Y5wdWT

Blogosphere is crowded. Every minute of the day, 347 WordPress users publish a new blog post http://buff.ly/YpmOtt

"You’re either living your life or reading Facebook. FB would surely prefer those to be one and the same." http://buff.ly/YIW6eO

"Big Data" for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance - Free dynamic risk maps http://buff.ly/11j8Hq9

Medicine videos by Khan Academy http://bit.ly/XoQS9O -- including some detailed, system-based ones, e.g. Lungs http://bit.ly/XoQTL6

MCAT Video Competition - How to Make a Khan Academy Video http://bit.ly/XoQVCP

Has Twitter Changed? Remember when Twitter was a great place to have conversations? http://bit.ly/Z0ynE5

Practice Fusion Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site: "Patient Fusion" http://buff.ly/Yi9O9R

How To Backup Your Online Content by @grahamwalker http://buff.ly/ZiD38k

How useful is YouTube in learning heart anatomy? Only 294 videos (out of 55,000) qualified for further analysis http://buff.ly/10XzoPW

Practical Guidance: The Use of Social Media In Oncology Practice (free full text) http://buff.ly/1554SZ9

Social Media Use in Medical Education: review of 14 studies: there was only 1 randomized controlled trial http://buff.ly/ZiMNzQ

So far this year, over 400 healthcare conferences have registered their hashtag with Symplur. It’s an amazing number. Healthcare Conferences on Twitter: more virtual participants than participants physically present at the location http://buff.ly/ZxZdHF

Predicting national suicide numbers with social media data http://buff.ly/141R8v5

52% of plastic surgeons feel that social media are an effective marketing tool for increased exposure and referrals http://buff.ly/10pghiG

Quantifying collective attention from tweet stream - PLoS study http://buff.ly/13wWgYM

The articles were selected from my Twitter and RSS streams. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to clinicalcases at gmail.com and you will receive an acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.