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How do you take healthcare innovation into business as usual practices? Joining me on Get Social Health is Andre Blackman, a member of the Jumpstart Foundry team and Producer for Health:Further. This program that brings healthcare innovators together with healthcare professionals to figure out how to implement innovative products, services, and ideas in real-world business.

Health:Further

You know, healthcare innovation is a lot like the weather, everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it. That may be stretching the metaphor a bit but, seriously doesn’t it seem that awful lot of innovation never quite gets into practice in a healthcare setting?
In our conversation Andre and I start with his previous podcast topic, the Sustain or Die Manifesto. Andre developed this idea a few years ago to inspire others to think about taking healthcare innovation into practice. In his new role with Health:Further, Andre is responsible for creating events that bring together digital health innovators and the healthcare see suite to talk about how you can use innovations in a practical real world setting.

Listen to our conversation on the podcast or jump in at the timestamps below.

[00:00] Introduction: Agent of Change – Andre Blackman
[02:19] The Sustain or Die Manifesto
[04:52] Wearables gaining interest for health tracking
[07:20] Manifesto
[13:58] Brand new project – Health:Further
[18:10] Med help to those without
[23:04] Producing Quarterly events
[24:24] Jumpstart Foundry
[25:11] Are you targeting just Healthcare Systems?
[25:57] Health innovation – Where’s the impact?
[28:09] What core competencies does the health entrepreneur need?
[30:54] Looking for the small healthcare solutions
[32:29] Room for individuals?
[33:56] Levels of involvement
[35:26] What is your role with Health:Further?
[36:40] Dana Lewis, #hcsm Moderator, “Jump in!”

Additional Resources

Andre’s website and @mindofandre on Twitter

Andre on LinkedIn

Pulse + Signal Facebook page

RecycleHealth (only a FB page for right now)

Aaron Sklar – design + healthcare, co-founder of Prescribe Design

IDEO, Frog Design = two leading design-thinking companies

Flip the Clinic, waiting room experiences – initiated by Thomas Goetz and led by Whitney Zatzkin (@MsWZ)

Health:Further Resources:

Main website: healthfurther.com

My introduction post as Producer and the mission

The HF events page that links to our March 1st event on telehealth

Andre’s interview with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on Health:Further and important of fresh thinking for healthcare innovation

Follow HF on Twitter as @HealthFurther and Facebook

Content Drove 4 Million Website Visitors

Being early to social media and blogging has an advantage when you are a physician and a content producer. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Howard Luks began writing his blog to answer questions from his patients. After years of producing content that addressed real patient concerns he now sees over 4 million visitors to his website annually. Dr. Luks is a social media early adopter and has tried most social media platforms some of which he has dropped after not getting the results he wanted. Aside from continuing his active blogging, Dr. Luks is now live-streaming content to his audience via Periscope. Listen in to my conversation with social media pioneer Dr. Howard Luks or drop in at the time stamps below.

[00:00] Introduction
[00:51] Meet Dr. Howard Luks, Orthopedic Surgeon
[01:34] Evolution of Social Media

Howard Luks, Physician and content producer

[03:57] Medical Journals
[04:50] Is it a problem that social media is slow in adoption?
[05:26] Pioneers have led the way
[06:34] Physicians as content providers
[08:00] Communicating patient education – “one man show”
[09:36] Online presence is your reputation
[10:42] Reviews on ZocDoc
[11:49] What do your colleagues think of social media?
[12:20] What drew you to social media
[14:32] Have you thought about writing a book?
[15:27] Use of video
[17:00] Live or recorded video?
[18:28] Tracking questions and comments
[19:14] Age of patients and social savvy
[21:30] Involved in Startup community
[23:40] mHealth & Digital Health
[28:41] Is that a future you’re excited about?
[29:49] #TweetChats #HIT
[31:10] When are you live in Twitter?
[31:48] Is it harder to have conversations in Twitter?
34:30 Social Media Tip: Dr. Bryan Vartabedian “Find a Social Media Mentor”

Howard Luk’s Social Media Profiles:

The Get Social Health Academy

Thank you for joining me for Get Social Health. As you may know, I recently launched the Get Social Health Academy, an online learning space for healthcare practitioners. If you handle social media for a physician’s or other healthcare practice, check out the website for courses that can help you achieve your goals in social media. The website is Get Social Health Academy.com. If you have any questions please reach out to me atJanet@getsocialhealth.com or in Twitter @GetSocialHealth. Thanks for listening.