Twitter for health and healthcare

Slide 1: Twitter for Health PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu May 20, 2008

Slide 2: Twitter • http://twitter.com/

Slide 3: Twitter is … • for friends • for news • for current events • for crisis response • for silliness • for intelligent discussion • like fishing • like sex • like a chatroom • a microblogging tool • an RSS feed generator • • the social search engine • and what else? we’ve all been waiting for

Slide 4: Twitter for productivity

Slide 5: Twitter + time management

Slide 6: Twitter + task management

Slide 7: Twitter + weather

Slide 8: More Twitter tools

Slide 9: Twitter for discovery

Slide 10: Twitter + health news

Slide 11: Twitter + health news

Slide 12: Twitter + health legislation • HR 2790 – Physician Assistants

Slide 13: Today’s buzz – Google Health

Slide 14: Today’s buzz – Google Health

Slide 15: Today’s buzz - Google Health • attillacsordas

Slide 16: Today’s buzz - Google Health • dporter

Slide 17: Today’s buzz - Google Health • laktek

Slide 18: Today’s buzz - Google Health • Google

Slide 19: Today’s buzz - Google Health • Google API

Slide 20: Twitter search - Summize

Slide 21: Using Twitter in health & healthcare

Slide 22: Twitter + doctors

Slide 23: Twitter + Telemedicine + Second Opinion

Slide 24: Twitter + activism

Slide 25: Twitter + make a difference

Slide 26: Twitter + exercise

Slide 27: Twitter + health tracking • “Tweet your pain”

Slide 28: Twitter + food tracking

Slide 29: Twitter + blood sugar tracking

Slide 30: Twitter + dieting

Slide 31: Twitter + dieting + support

Slide 32: Twitter + smoking cessation

Slide 33: Twitter + disaster & crisis preparedness

Slide 34: Twitter + emergency response

Slide 35: Twitter + personal crisis • surgery

Slide 36: Twitter + personal crisis • Twittering birth

Slide 37: Twitter + personal crisis • Momku writes poetry during birth

Slide 38: Twitter + education using health feeds

Slide 39: Join the conversation

Slide 40: Librarians are there, too

Slide 41: Twitter - Pubmed Bootcamp

Slide 42: Twitter - MLA 2008

Slide 43: Want more? • http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/twitter+he alth