So you want to make an app? What your organisation needs to know. This was the topic of a workshop run at the Australian Health Promotion Association conference in Sydney earlier this week that was bound to draw interest, given that we seem to be living in the age of the app. Below is a [...]
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Wrapping some tweet-reports from the Australian Health Promotion Association conference
Herewith a selection of tweets from the Australian Health Promotion Association conference in Sydney today. (You can find a more comprehensive wrap-up at this Storify from the conference organisers, @ahpa_au.) It seems the app workshop was very popular (and we hope to report more on this later) – a reminder of the need to broaden the [...]
READ MOREOccupy Healthcare – Social media do have the potential to revolutionize medicine
In many areas of service provision the voice of the consumer is the strongest driver for change and innovation. That voice has been suprisingly subdued with regards to Australia’s public health system, however, as Professor Enrico Coiera from UNSW’s Australian Institute of Health Innovation reports, that that could all be about to change……. Professor Coiera writes: [...]
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Involving young people in shaping research, practice and policy in youth mental health
Many thanks to Associate Professor Jane Burns, CEO, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre for the following reminder as to why it is essential to engage young people in planning services for youth mental health. Associate Professor Burns writes: I am one of those people from a generation to know a world without computers, to make [...]
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Social media for conference reporting, evidence-based practice, self-care (and more…)
Nursing tweeters (or should that be, tweeting nurses) were out in force when the International Council of Nurses (ICN) held its 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne recently. This analysis by nurse, educator and social media enthusiast Paul McNamara gives some useful insights into why conference organisers generally should build Twitter into their planning. Over the [...]
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Online connections are critical for rural and remote health and healthcare #NBN
One of the clear themes from the National Rural Health Conference has been the importance of social connections and online support for health and wellbeing. On a related note, there have been many discussions about how social media is powering advocacy for rural and remote health, and the importance of online connections for health service [...]
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It’s all just a social media and medicine storm in a teacup, says one surgical Tweeter
Online debate about doctors’ use of social media has been running hot in the wake of new guidance from the General Medical Council in the UK. In the article below, Sydney surgeon Dr Henry Woo (@drhwoo) suggests that many of the concerns amount to a “storm in a teacup”. *** “The vast majority of doctors [...]
READ MOREFrom the public health files marked, Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
The PR and marketing strategies of the junk food and drink industries bring a whole new level of meaning to the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. If you were writing a farce, it would be hard to top these: • McDonald’s, that well known friend of children’s health and wellbeing, plans to give [...]
READ MOREThe Dumb Ways to Die campaign: will it make a difference (to train safety)?
Just in case you are one of the few people on the planet yet to catch the jingle of the Dumb Ways to Die campaign, it’s a public safety initiative recently launched by Metro Trains in Melbourne, that it is being hailed as an “internet sensation”. According to Wikipedia, the campaign video was uploaded on 14 [...]
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Reporting on a recent summit on blogging, social media and diabetes
Blogging and other social media channels are developing networks and knowledge amongst people living with diabetes. Angela Mallon, from Diabetes Australia – Vic, reports on a diabetes social media summit, recently held in Melbourne. She gives an example of important policy decisions being made without consumer input, and says social media is providing new opportunities for [...]
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