The American Heart Association Social Media Project
feedWelcome to the AHA Social Media Working Group's private website, hosted by the Institute for the Future. This space is, in part, a web log (also known as a blog). You can use it to post questions, comments, or ideas related to the project that we are undertaking with you.
To log in, click on the link in the upper right. This will bring you to your "dashboard," which will display our content. Please click on the program name, which will appear on the left, to get to the main page.
Pew Project wants to "crowdsource" new Internet health survey
September 29, 2008
Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics
The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet's impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at our tried...
Americans doing more texting than calling
According to the New York Times, Sept 29:
In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent...
A conference about Web 2.0 as it relates to medicine and health
Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and others. (When I first saw the announcement, I...
Medical experts wanted
By now, I think that it is safe to say that Wikipedia plays a ubiquitous role in the world of online information. This is even true for health information. At our Spring 2007 conference on Biocitizens and New Media Technology, Health Horizons Program Director Rod Falcon noted in his presentation that, "Wikipedia is...
Apple & Nike partnership to promote health
Here is the latest from the partnership of Apple & Nike to promote physical fitness.
Putting in context another newly-launched health-related social networking site
Trusera--a website that allows people to share their real-world health experiences--launched last month. Its tag is "Come experience the Power of Been There." When I first came across the announcement on the...
