A Mayo Clinic First: the Social Media Center #hcsmeu #health20fr

Silber's Blog has previously presented some of the Mayo Clinic's successes on YouTube. Now, the Mayo Clinic has taken another step forward in its commitment to Social Media by setting up a Social Media Center, in recognition of the positive impact of social media on healthcare.

After its commitment to YouTube (137 videos), Twitter ( 61k followers),Facebook (22k fans), and others, the Mayo Clinic has realized that there is still much more to do to pursue its century-old policy of listening to the patient, through modern Social Media.

For a budget of $800k, the Mayo is setting up a staff of 8 people to train the Mayo personnel, essentially healthcare professionals, on how to use Social Media for the benefit of the patient -- ie that the exchange contributing to better information and participation of the patient, improves health care. Social Media is recent. Your organization willl catch up if it starts now!

Be inspired. Listen to this video of one of the Mayo Clinic physicians

Comments

[Health20Paris Denisesilber]

Dave, I didn't even know what a warp driver is; now I think I can't go on without one. ;-)
Keep up the fab work.
Denise

[e-Patient Dave]

Victor Montori is frickin' awesome. He rocks so good, he's a lightyear beyond the stick-in-the-mud establishment. He's broken free, he's in warp driver.

And so is this whole idea. You're right: be inspired.