As you may have inferred from the title of this blog I'm hoping to explore the constantly expanding role technology in all its forms is playing in healthcare. I will be focusing on how this affects the profession of Pharmacy whenever possible. I have strong opinions on a lot of subjects and hope to encourage discussion so please leave lots of useful comments!
Speaking of technology gets me to straight to my first point. As a kid growing up I could never understand why people I identified as "old" wouldn't adapt to new technology as quickly as I could, sometimes they wouldn't adapt at all. I vowed that I would never let this happen to me, and have been fairly good about it so far (I consider myself fairly technologically literate). At the same time, this is the first blog I have ever written...
I take solace in the fact that falling behind the times when it comes to social media is a trend that transcends health professionals. The graph above shows physician's use of social technology. The red bars are percents of current users, the blue bars represent the percent of physicians that would "never consider" using the technology.
Given that if Facebook were a country it would be the third most populous in the world makes it a virtual goldmine of information, including the health habits of millions of people "checking in" all over the world. Twitter is worse. And yet more than a quarter of the physicians polled claimed they would never use Facebook, nearly a third stated that Twitter would never be useful to them. Really, never, not even for the sake of research??
I think its time for the health professions to stop being so "old" in their approach to the emergence of social technology. I'm not asking for much, just do as I'm doing with blogging and give it a shot.
Take a look at the article I got this graph from:
"Meaningful Use" of Social Media at Stanford Medicine 2.0
-Ravdeep Ghataorhe
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