Slideshare presentations of the week: healthcare and social media
This week, our collection of Slideshare presentations will be on the theme of health. I wrote a blog post about this recently, and thought it would be interesting to look at the issue in closer detail.
1. Elizabeth Bacon is a Principal and the Chief Design Officer at Devise, an interaction design firm in Portland, Oregon. This is a white paper rather than a presentation, but useful to anyone who is involved in designing a healthcare service. Elizabeth goes through the basics of interaction design but also included are a couple of case studies that look at how design processes impacted the creation of a useful medical system in a hospital. As she say,
Medical systems development is anything but a solo endeavour, and products frequently take multiple years to move from being a concept in someone's mind to being released in the market. To deliver most value, the Interaction Design practitioner should be a core team member from the first moments of problem identification through the end game of market launch.
2. Dean Giustini is a librarian at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. In this presentation a primer on social media in healthcare - made at a symposium a couple of weeks ago, Dean and his team talk through the use of blogs, Twitter and wikis.
Cochrane Social Media Workshop 2011
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3. We Are Social did a presentation at Social Media Week in London recently where they talked through a PR approach to identifying and engaging with influencers in the healthcare sector, which may be interesting for people who have healthcare products they'd like to spread the word about.