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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 [...]

Australia’s reliance on carbon intensive energy systems and failure to develop renewable energy sources is a critical health concern, according to a briefing paper prepared for a Health and Energy Policy roundtable meeting in Canberra tomorrow. The paper (which can be downloaded from the Climate and Health Alliance website) argues that energy policy has failed [...]

The IndigenousX Twitter account, as profiled at Croakey last year, has a different Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person tweeting each week. The number of people following @IndigenousX has been increasing quickly (almost 10,000 at present), thanks to the efforts of the account’s indefatigable founder, Luke Pearson (in his other life an education consultant with [...]

(Update: This post has been corrected due to my mistaken interpretation of Google Scholar search results – thanks to Deborah Lupton for the alert) A Google Scholar search for academic articles published since the start of 2012 mentioning Twitter yields many pages of results. The same search, but for articles relating to Twitter and health, [...]

Health services and organisations interested in using social media to connect with Aboriginal people and communities have much to learn from Luke Pearson, an Aboriginal education consultant and social media activist. Luke established the popular @IndigenousX Twitter account, and is preparing to soon launch a weekly twitter forum #iXchat – initiatives which offer great opportunities for [...]

In North America, hospitals seem to have been quicker than other parts of the health sector to realise the potential of social media. As a recent Canadian report investigating the potential of social media to contribute to better health care said: “Compared to other types of healthcare institutions, hospitals are overwhelmingly early adopters of social [...]

As mentioned in the previous post, some of those at the recent Primary Health Care Research Conference in Brisbane have written reports arising from a workshop about how primary health care might harness the digital revolution. In the articles below: Natasha Pavlin looks at some of the challenges for those in the health sector wanting [...]

Croakey readers had a long wish list for what you wanted covered at the national rural health conference in Perth this week. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get to nearly as many of the sessions as I would have liked. But I can refer you to this footage of the keynote presentations, and the ABC’s online coverage [...]