Follow the hashtags on Twitter
There are plenty of health care hashtags to check out, here is a list of the tags and their definitions and a Twitter account for the Healthcare Hashtag Project. And here are my picks for top 5 hashtags that I like to hangout in.
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#EHR – Electronic Health Records
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#HITPOL – Health Information Technology Policy
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#HealthiT – Health Information Technology
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#MeaningfulUse – Meaningful Use, HITECH
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ONC – Office of the National Coordinator
Medical Practice Efficiencies & Cost Savings
Many health care providers have found that electronic health records (EHRs) help improve medical practice management by increasing practice efficiencies and cost savings.
Prevention: Flu Shots’ Benefits Seen in Hospital Study (9/19/2011)
A federal government recommendation to give preschoolers the flu vaccine has resulted in a large decrease in emergency room visits among 2 to 4-year-olds, new research has found. And there were benefits for older children as well.
Online Gamers Solve a Tricky AIDS Puzzle (9/19/2011)
Online Foldit players figured out the structure of a retroviral protease, a type of protein that is crucial to the replication of HIV. In this case, gamers worked on the protein that allows the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) to progress into simian AIDS in rhesus monkeys. Legitimate scientists have tried unsuccessfully to model the protein; Foldit players working in concert were able to “solve” the structure in a matter of weeks.