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Ed Bennett, a web operations manager at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), has kept a list of Hospitals involved in social media across the country.  The count is at 1,188 Hospitals total. Check out his website for more information. Seems 26 hospitals in Georgia have a social media presence. Share

We all know that the Internet has become crucial tool for gathering health information. A new report finds 80% of Internet users look online for health information, making it the third most popular online pursuit following using email and a search engine. Research by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project and the [...]

Are hospitals across the United States missing the boat on Facebook. According to a recent study, hospitals are not using Facebook to its capacity to engage patients, build healthcare communities or develop their hospital brands. Only a few hospitals across the United States are utilizing social media to connect with patients, improve the health status [...]

The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults and particularly in urban areas. However, the fact that 85% of adults use a cell phone, and that four-in-ten of 18 and older access the internet on their phones, hasn’t changed how people really get their healthcare questions answered. Most people continue to turn [...]

Google Instant – results as you type with fewer clicks – can mean spending less time search according to Google. Google Instant works by predicting what you are searching for in real-time. Meaning that the search box updates as you type your query. Interestingly enough there had to be some changes to the way Google [...]

Ed Bennett writes the one of the best blogs of it’s type on the web called Found in Cache. Although he is an employee of the University of Maryland Medical System, his posts reflect only his opinions (per the disclaimer) on social networking, search engines, analytics, user interface design, team management, Intranet operations and anything [...]

According to a recent LA Times article, “An emergency room patient at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach on April 9 layed mortally wounded… [while the] hospital staff did the unthinkable: They snapped photos of the dying man and posted them on Facebook.” Eventually four staff members were fired and three disciplined, according to [...]

According to a latest Harris Poll, more people use the Internet to look for information about health topics than ever before. In 1998 Harris Poll, identifying them as Cyberchondriacs, found that just over 50 million American adults had ever gone online to look for health information – with this poll the numbers jumped to 175 [...]

According to the CongressDaily‘s “Tech Daily Dose” the FDA posted a letter last week that said pharmaceutical companies that use the “Facebook Share” application to promote their products must include information that complies with agency regulations. The company they cracked down on was Novartis, a multi-national pharmaceutical company. According to iHealthbeat.org “the application allows Facebook [...]

In a 2009 study, Forrester Research showed that almost 1/3rd of the population in the United States now visits a social network at least once per month. The use of Social Media outlets like Facebook, or collaboration tools like blogs or wikis, have provided a place for patients to learn about medical practices and decide [...]