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

Curmudgeons and Physician Branding: Dr. Russell Faust

What do you get when you combine a tech geek and an ENT Surgeon? Believe it or not, you get a social media and online branding expert! Get Social...

Can Radiologists be Social? Sara McFarland of Atlantic Health Solutions

“So you want to be a Social Media Ninja?” This intriguing question popped up in a social media search and brought me to Sara McFarland, Communications Specialist with Atlantic...

Pharmacists and Social Media – Brian McDonald

Who should be at the table when discussing healthcare in social media? Ideally, everyone who impacts patient health from the patient themselves to the caregivers, caretakers, hospitals, insurance companies,...

Are We Paying Enough Attention to Data Security in Digital Health?

Get Social Health welcomes Digital Health Futurist Fard Johnmar as a guest blogger. We were pleased to have him as a guest on the podcast (Episode 10) and could...

Social Media for Physician Practices – Episode 12

The social media holdouts in healthcare tend to be the small to medium sized physicians practices. In order to share some ideas about how to manage a social media...

Patient Recruitment – Scott Vaughan Episode 11

[app_audio src=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/getsocialhealth/010_Scott_Vaughan_Edited_Final_AU.mp3″] Patient recruitment for clinical trials is challenging work. The advent of a fractured media market in the 1980’s and 1990’s complicated an already complicated patient recruitment process....

Healthcare Digital Futurist Fard Johnmar

Have you ever wanted to be a time traveler? That’s how I felt during my conversation with Fard Johnmar, healthcare digital futurist and co-author of “ePatient 2015 – 15...

Social Media’s Potential for Suicide Prevention

The future is now. Sophisticated technology has made things possible that mental health is not ready to tackle. And maybe, in the case of suicide, that’s a good thing....

CrowdFunding Cancer Research – Marty Smith

Martin (Marty) Smith is a serial entrepreneur and founder of an exciting initiative: Tech Cures Cancer Fund at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Cancer Center. He is also...