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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011 Social Media Workshop for health care managers in Canada: putting it together … putting it all together

Social Media Workshop for Health Care Managers: Putting It Together

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

Social Media Workshopfor health care managers in Canada:

… putting it together

… putting it all together

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011… putting it all together

Agenda

• Review vocabulary from social media workshop

• Review purpose of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & YouTube in health care

• The importance of fitting your social media strategy organizationally

• Social media ROI (return on investment) and risk mitigation

• Concluding thoughts

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

“What is web, health & med 2.0?

• Web 2.0

• …web 2.0 is a major change in how we interact with each other & information, moving us from passive consumers to active creators on social media sites such as blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook etc.

• Health 2.0

• …a more patient-centred participatory model of health care emphasizing interactions between consumers, health providers and librarians using social media… an ability to share medical evidence, patient data & opinion to improve health outcomes on a global scale…

• Medicine 2.0

• …the use of social media in medicine to encourage more open & interactive communication… a new generation of social media users are able to interact with each other so that health information can be continually requested, consumed & reinterpreted…

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

• Ability to reach distributed audiences at low cost

• Foster innovative ways of interacting professionally (Bacigalupe 2011)

• Promote positive behaviours, disseminate information & use tools in real-time (Scanfeld et al., 2010)

• Use Twitter /cell phones to organize, interact & share information (Bottles 2009)

Twitter in health & medicine

Why use twitter?

HCSM.ca Archiveshttp://cyhealthcommunications.wordpress.com/hcsmca-2/

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

Facebook in health & medicine

• Facebook is among most popular social tools for hospitals

• Most effective in driving traffic to web sites (Cummins, 2010)

• Increase internal networking & collaborative practices (Burrus, 2010)

• Help public health officials reach out to consumers (Currie, 2009)

• Extend digital presence to meet healthcare organization's agenda (Rooney, 2009)

Why use Facebook?

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

• Presence on social networks extends healthcare agendas (Rooney, 2009)

• Word-of-mouth advertising creates impression of peer-determined credibility

• Provides economy of scale that may elude traditional marketing efforts

• Develop “professional legitimacy” by establishing a digital presence

Linkedin in health & medicine

Why use Linkedin?

LinkedIn provides opportunities to shape public health policy

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

• Create a transparent health channel for current news (Hackworth, 2010)

• Increase awareness & traffic to your health website (Cummins, 2010)

• Videos can be (re)posted on Facebook – or linked to messages on Twitter

• Patients feel empowered to learn more about their health & to take control

YouTube in health & medicine

Why use YouTube?

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Social Media Strategies / Policies

Do you have a communications expert who can guide this process for you?

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Social Media Risk

Tip: Affirm your intention not to engage online with anyone who might damage your reputation (or your organization’s)…

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011… putting it all together

Social Media ROI

Tip: ”...most ROI activities look at blogposts, tweets and "friends -- the standard metrics in social media. However, you should plan to monitor your social media

engagement for up to 8 - 10 months before you can say whether you are going in the right direction. For example, if your goal is to increase followers by 100 or to get

positive mentions or "retweets", you will need to follow these numbers.”

Alternatively, you can appoint someone to follow them for you…

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Social Media Policies

Essential elements for social media policyTip: No two social media policies should be the same ...

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Dean Giustini (Instructor) & Kevin Read | UBC health librarians | Fall 2011

Using social media in health care

• communicating, fundraising, public relations, marketing, networking

• inter-professional communication / collaboration

• medical education / virtual hospitals-patients / training

• psychosocial support – health advocacy • identity & reputation management

• public health alerting• clinical surveillance technologies & mashups • emergency 2.0 in crisis management

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