Healthcare, Participation, Technology
I was recently asked by a Public Health Local Government Consultant to advise him on how to use Twitter for a Health campaign. My response via email has been recorded below for the benefit of others. I welcome your suggestions and comments!
Question: How do I use Twitter to help promote a public health campaign?
Answer: Thank you for your email. To start off, for a basic guide to Twitter I would suggest you read this. It is written in a clear understandable format. There are also three articles on the #nhssm website which are specifically targeted towards the …
”Once you have online consultations, it breaks down geographical boundaries. It opens up the spectre of 24/7 access.”
My guest post at the #nhssm website considers the challenges of using social media for patient feedback on their care.
Way-finding problems are common in hospitals, especially when the setting is poorly designed and badly sign posted.
The DoH has the potential to engage with many millions of people.
There is vast amount of literature that highlights and studies the presence and increase in violence and aggression in A&E departments (or ED), all across the world (e.g. UK, USA, Israel, Iran, Turkey & Australia). The impact of violence and aggression on A&E staff has been recorded very widely too. There is limited amount of reference/studies of the impact this violence and aggression has on the patient being violent and other patients using the A&E department at the same time. Interventions to reduce violence and aggression have also been documented in literature. However, references to environmental interventions such as design were found in only a handful of documents, and none of them established through research the impact of environmental interventions on violence and aggression in A&E.
Yesterday I presented a talk ‘An overview of Healthcare apps in the UK’ at the Medical Apps Seminar organised by the British Computer Society (BCS).
QR codes are two dimensional barcodes (see image above) that are designed to be read by smartphones.
Please note that this is based on an assessment in Jan 2011.
