Get Social Health

Hosted ByJanet Kennedy

The Podcast: Get Social Health is a podcast about social media and how it’s being used to help hospitals, medical practices, healthcare practitioners and patients connect and engage via social media. 

The Podcast: Get Social Health is a podcast about social media and how it’s being used to help hospitals, medical practices, healthcare practitioners and patients connect and engage via social media. Get Social Health presents conversations with professionals actively working in the field and provides real-life examples of healthcare social media in action.

As a career marketing and businesswoman, I have a strong appreciation of the power of social media. My goal is for Get Social Health to encourage healthcare systems and physician practices to enter social media and begin engaging with patients, community, and practitioners.

social media for healthcareDuring the podcast, guests share their backgrounds and business experience along with their social media expertise that will educate and illuminate. We discuss specific case studies, experiences, and best practice examples. Topics may include lessons learned and how to address specific social media topics like social media training, HIPAA awareness, negative feedback or emergency communications. Our goal is to present some specific actionable ideas and takeaways about the daily work being done.

Want to know more about me? I’ve been a guest on some other podcasts!

IntrepidNOW Healthcare podcast with Joe Lavelle

The Healthcare IT Marketer Podcast with Jared Johnson

Podcasters Paradise Podcast with The Real Brian


All Episodes

Healthcare Innovation in Action

Innovation in healthcare – everybody’s talking about it but how do you do it? Today’s guest on Get Social Health, AJ Montpetit,  has a unique perspective because he works...

“Don’t be an Egg-Head” & other social media lessons

When faced with the challenge of encouraging more members of the Australian Private Hospitals Association to utilize social media, Marketing Director Lisa Ramshaw went right to the top –...

Building a Brand Journalism Team: Michael Yoder

It started with a desire to connect with people via social media and platforms like LinkedIn. As a result of his early adopter experience, Michael Yoder ended up at...

#HCSM Tweet Chat Founder Dana Lewis

Meet Dana Lewis, the founder of one of the most popular healthcare tweet chats, #HCSM. The Healthcare Communications Social Media Tweet-chat or “Hicksum” to those in the know (which...

Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media – Lee Aase

It is universally held that social media is inherently “social” but it does not always follow that social media is friendly too. In the case of Lee Aase, Director...

Patient Community Building in Hospitals

In the “olden days” – like 10 years ago, patients had to have their own support community when dealing with illness or injury. Families and friends, if available, were...

Content Strategy for Healthcare

Meet Ahava Leibtag – Content strategist, writer, website consultant. Ahava  is President of Aha Media Group. She has worked in healthcare digital consulting with clients such as Johns Hopkins...

Facebook Update for Healthcare

Social media for healthcare invariably includes Facebook as a primary channel. The challenge for a busy medical practice is finding the time to post enough content so keeping up...

The Healthcare Hashtag Project – #Ebola

There is a concern that healthcare has been slow to embrace social media and appreciate it’s potential to educate and inform. Twitter numbers about healthcare conversations tell a different...