Coming to Social Media in Care Delivery Tech Demo Day: Linking social networks and personal health records

There is no shortage of enthusiasm for the use of social media in health care. Unfortunately, there are few models for actually integrating social media into actual health care delivery itself. Until now.

This paper popped up across my radar when it was published in April, 2011, and presents something i had not seen before – the connection of a robust social network to a personal health record, and the data secured within, in a privacy supported way.

We followed up with researchers Elissa Weitzman, ScD, MSc and Ken Mandl, MD, from Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Children’s Hospital Boston and have added this work to the group of technologies that will be presented at “Social Media in Care Delivery Technology Demo Day,” at the Garfield Center (@KPGarfield) on September 15, 2011.

Here’s what they mashed up together:...