Healthcare Communications & Social Media

Topics:

1. How can online health care communities be more welcoming to newcomers? Does your answer change depending on the channel?
2. What actually makes a health care community online? What are the essential ingredients – and what’s optional?
3. Does your perspective on online communities change if you think of communities for HCPs; or patients; or both? Why/not?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat. Also, if you missed the chat, or want to add additional thoughts & feedback to the above discussion topics, leave a comment & keep the discussion going!

Topics:

1. What change(s) do we think we’ll see in the #hcsm landscape overall in 2016?
2. What’s one thing you’re looking forward to doing (HCSM-wise) in 2016?
3. What ‘best practices’ in HC SM were established, or evolved, in 2015? What do you wish would become best practice in 2016?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat. Also, if you missed the chat, or want to add additional thoughts & feedback to the above discussion topics, leave a comment & keep the discussion going!

Topics:

1. How could we use SM to support medication and testing adherence? What currently works, and where can we evolve/improve?
2. In your opinion, which ‘group’ is using #hcsm well – hospitals? HCPs? pharma? patients? gov? Why, and what can we learn from them?
3. What should collaboration (in social media) between public health agencies and the broader public health community look like?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat. Also, if you missed the chat, or want to add additional thoughts & feedback to the above discussion topics, leave a comment & keep the discussion going!

FYI – there is no #hcsm chat scheduled for Sunday, November 29, 2015! The next #hcsm Twitter chat is scheduled for Sunday, December 6 at 8pm CT.

What are the topics? Topics for #hcsm chats are submitted by community members, like you! You can submit topic ideas via Twitter to @HealthSocMed. And, you can see past topics by scrolling through this blog and seeing topic archives or scrolling through the @HealthSocMed Twitter feed.