Janet Kennedy

Healthcare Hackathon for Caregivers

April 21, 2015 Janet Kennedy 0:35:25 0 Comments

Caregivers of people with dementia face many challenges. To aid in problem solving for them, NCHICA, Northwest AHEC and Quintiles sponsored a healthcare hackathon on April 11-12, 2015.

00:00 Open and Introduction

Janet Kennedy introduction

01:35 Jennifer Anderson, NCHICA

1st Event
Why this topic?
Event preparation
New Executive Director for NCHICA

06:40 Chris Jones, Northwest AHEC

How did the healthcare hackathon come to be?
“From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side”

10:26 Healther Altman, Carol Woods

Wearing many hats & Innovation Coach
Changes in the geriatric space
“Person First” language

14:58 Katherine Lavoie, UNC Graduate Student & Volunteer

How she became involved in the event
What are the challenges feaced by Healthcare Administrations?
What do you hope to gain from the weekend?

16:30 Alex Joyner, Student at Nash Community College & event finalist

Why did you come to this healthcare hackathon?
Senior’s use of technology
Lessons from his family

19:13 Dave Potenziani, Intrahealth

Health informatics
mHero
Open source tech

21:48 Tom Caurso,

Innovation Coach
Wearable tech researcher and entrepreneur
What do you think about the specificity of the topic?

25:07 Gail Hinte, Himformatics & Innovation Coach

Benefits of coaching

28:58 eHealth Transformation Challenge Winners. Team Leads Karen Appert & Soumajeet Roy

30:58 John Reites, Quintiles

“Co-Conspiritor”
Healthcare hackathon development time
Improvements for next time
Why is Quintiles involved?

34:58 Get Social Health Academy announcement

eHealth Transformation Challenge (Event website)

The Problem: Caregivers of those with dementia are tasked with conducing a diverse range of activities to support loved ones. They need technology tools to support them in caring for their loved ones in innovative ways.

The Challenge: To design and pitch technology-based solutions that have the potential to lighten the burden that falls on family caregivers, particularly by helping them to coordinate the demanding tasks and the complex networks of relationships involved with caring for others.

The Advantage: This inaugural NCHICA event will connect you with other innovators and industry veterans in the Triangle, NC area. Food and awards totaling $4,500 to the top designs will be provided. Tickets are just $10 for students and $90 for industry professionals. Sign-up today as space is limited

Students, clinicians, programmers, hackers, entrepreneurs, and caregiver advocates will gather and team up at Quintiles to compete in a design race to improve public health. Will you be there?

The winning team will design and pitch a viable and realistic solution to improve quality of life of caregivers of the elderly in NC.

Inspiration speakers:

Karen Appert – 20 year Caregiver and Marketing Professional

Susan Adams -Professional Gerontologist specializing in Aging in Place

Connie Bishop – Director – Compliance and Quality/Risk Management, Piedmont Health Services, Inc.

David Potenziani – Senior Informatics Adviser at IntraHealth International

Event Recap

Weekend in video for the weekend is here:

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Or follow us on Northwest AHEC social channels

Lead sponsors NCHCIA, Northwest AHEC & Quintiles

Prize sponsors Booz Allen Hamilton, Himformatics, Duke MMCI program, Validic

Conf sponsors Carol Woods, RENCI, Validic

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MediKidz – Super Heroes for Health Education

April 14, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:29:42 1 Comment

Dr. Kate Hersov was a Pediatrician with a problem that would take some Super Heroes to solve. She was working in New Zealand with children who had difficult health situations and no way to explain what they needed to know – on their level. She was very frustrated that she didn’t have any information to give her young patients. A moment of inspiration came when she was explaining a patient’s cancer diagnosis to an 11-year old’s parents when the patient called out the adults for not having information for him. So Dr. Hersov became a “Doctor-preneur” and the MediKidz Super Heroes were born.

Listen to this wonderful story or drop in at the time stamps below.

Introduction
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Pediatrician in New Zealand
01:35 No health information available
04:24 Founding Children’s MedEd company
04:58 Super Heroes has health educators
07:10 Graphic novel influence
08:20 Adults need them too
10:45 Based on real kids; 100 Titles and growing
13:00 Digital Augmentation Reality
13:38 Business Model
15:10 Siblings
17:25 New Titles
19:00 Forum for kids to share
22:30 Kids as Super Heroes
25:38 The MediKidz Team
26:15 Digitalization of MediKidz
26:38 Preventative Health
27:15 Developing world – HIV & vaccinations
28:46 Social Media Tip: Pam Highsmith – The power of Facebook Ads

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David Harlow IS @Healthblawg

April 7, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:49:10 3 Comments

David Harlow is a healthcare lawyer and well-know in healthcare social media circles with his blog and Twitter persona @healthblawg. He joined Get Social Health to talk about marketing and patient privacy, HIPAA and social media. You’ll want to listen to the whole episode but to listen to specific parts again follow the time stamp below:

00:00 Introduction
00:38 Meet David Harlow
01:28 How do you commicate in 140 characters?
03:57 Healthcare Law
05:05 Our requisite disclaimer
05:26 Why is patient data private?
06:20 Privacy law and individual states
07:27 “Whatever is the most protective of a patient’s privacy, wins.”
08:50 Is anything a patient shares fair game?
10:44 The more you deindentify data, the more you lessen its value.
13:05 Violation: ER MD In Rhode Island
17:00 HIPAA and Social Media Fines
19:00 Separating political statements on a nonprofit hospital blog
20:35 Intermediate sanctions
20:44 NLRB – Employee right to complain
23:15 Obligation to train
24:25 Social media policy – Don’t assume
25:50 “Practice Preventive Law.” Audits by Office for Civil Rights
26:50 Social Media Policy ; One Size does not fit all
28:47 Do you need a social media policy if you only have a website?
30:10 Facebook, marketing lists and email targeting
34:56 Marketing was addressed specifically by the HITECH Act
37:35 The HealthBlawg
39:55 The difference between Lawyers and Physicians online
41:50 “Blog Carnivals”
45:15 Advice to get started in social media.
48:17 Social Media Tip: Sally Okun of Patients Like Me “Contribute your data”

Below are links to a number of David’s blogs, projects and social media activity:

David’s Walking Gallery jacket and a post on Regina Hollidays‘ Blog.
David’s blog post on “The Walking Gallery”
Two posts about the marketing ramifications of the HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule:
“HIPAA Clarity: Do You Have to Sue HHS to Get It?”
“HIPAA Marketing Rule Guidance: Better Than Nothing”
Health Wonk Review
The last time David hosted HWR.
The last time David hosted another Blog Carnival (Co-founder) which was the HealthCare Social Media Review.
Here’s a link to the post announcing one edition of the Blawg Review that David Harlow hosted, written by the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, “Ed.”
David Harlow hosting the now-defunct Grand Rounds

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Patients Like Me social media for healthcare

Patients Like Me: Sally Okun

March 31, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:41:06 1 Comment

Patients Like Me is a health data-sharing platform that is transforming the way patients manage their own conditions. Sally Okun, VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety at Patients Like Me visited Get Social Health to talk about how they want to change the way industry conducts research and improve patient care. The numbers of PatientsLikeMe.com are impressive:

300,000 members
2,300+ conditions
50+ published research studies
25 million data points about disease

Numbers aside, Sally shared the Patients Like Me mission to help patients connect in a peer-to-peer network. Through their mutual sharing and support patients can also share their personal health data with researchers and pharma companies to help find health solutions and improve outcomes. Listen to the podcast or catch specific moments by following the time stamps below:

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Patients online
02:15 “Dr. Google: What is “Patients Like Me?
05:00 Getting from Patients Like Me to medical research
05:58 Results: Epilepisy seizure metering
06:50 How do patients share their data with their physicians?
08:01 Are physicians using this data?
08:50 Seeking balance of data overwhelm vs. data useability
11:50 320,000 patients in database, 40,000 Multiple Sclerosis patients
13:15 Participation in pharma research
15:58 Patient benefit for participating in Patients Like Me
18:15 Impact of “connectedness”
18:37 Caregivers in Patients Like Me
21:43 Moderation by clinical specialists?
26:50 Persona based design for PatientsLikeMe.com community
25:32 Closed community sharing or social sharing?
28:05 Hospital private communities compared to Patients Like Me
30:38 What are the biggest misconceptions about online patient communities?
33:15 HIPAA
33:30 Is Patients Like Me growing?
35:50 Wellness apps
36:30 Demographics of Patients Like Me
38:45 Patient sharing is critical
40:05 Social Media Tip: Phyllis Khare “4 Ways to increase your online reach”

Patients Like Me social sites:

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Nurse Friendly Andrew Lopez

March 24, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:36:37 0 Comments

One of the most active nurses in social media is @NurseFriendly aka Andrew Lopez. As Nurse Friendly he truly lives up to his Twitter handle and supports an active social media presence for himself and the nursing community. In our conversation we discuss social media, nurses on the front lines of healthcare and the many communities he supports for nurses.

Hear the details in our interview or follow the time stamps below.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Meet Nurse Friendly Andrew Lopez
01:45 Healthcare Tweetchats. #BCSM
03:50 Welcoming nature of Tweet chats
04:40 Andrew’s Twitter process
05:35 Healthcare Hashtag project http://www.symplur.com/
06:00 Speaking for Nurses? Speaking for self?
08:35 Employees active in social media
13:40 Social media policies
14:10 The Nurseup Facebook group
19:50 Jobs always available in nursing
23:53 Startup Weekend – Nurses as entrepreneurs
25:50 Website content
27:04 Dr. Gia Gisson #HealthXPh
35:22 Social Media Tip: Ashley Howland “Tips for live tweeting a surgery”

Andrew Lopez

The Art of Nursing conference

Work with Dr. Gia Sison, @Giasison on #MHStigma a weekly tweet chat.

Visit our resources page for more valuable (and free!) resources on social media and digital health.

NC Doctors Day – Thank Your Local MD

March 17, 2015 Janet Kennedy 00:30:39 1 Comment

Pam Highsmith of the NC Medical Society Shares 2016 Plans for NC Doctors Day

National Doctors Day is an annual event held March 30th that celebrates local physicians. This year the North Carolina Medical Society is honoring their physicians with a new web-based program that encouraged patient participation.

To find out more, Get Social Health spoke with Pam Highsmith, Director of Development at the NCMS about their awards program, the nominees and how North Carolinians can participate by voting to honor physicians statewide.

The award had three criteria:

Passionate about keeping patients happy and healthy.
Experts in using life-changing treatments to give patients the best care.
And making a positive impact in the community

North Carolina Doctor’s Day Nominees (announced March 16, 2015) are:

Name	Specialty	City	Practice Name
Edgardo Diez	Physical Medicine and Rehab	Asheville	CarePartners Health Services
James Rene Herlong	Pediatric Cardiology	Charlotte	Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
Maureen Murphy	Family Medicine	Concord	Cabarrus Family Medicine
Alan Carlson	Opthalmology	Durham	Duke Eye Center
Ogie Asemota	Pediatrics	Fayetteville	Calvary Pediatrics
Joseph Murad	OBGYN	Greenville	Joseph L. Murad, MD
Gloria Graham	Dermatology	Morehead City	Down East Medical Associates
Mark Heffington	Family Medicine	New Bern	Merci Clinic
Ben Fischer	Internal Medicine	Raleigh	Raleigh Medical Group
Lisa David	Plastic Surgery	Winston Salem	Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center