Update (Feb. 22nd, 2010): Thanks to Kevin, MD for featuring this post on “Twitter and Facebook Can Help Conduct Group Patient Visits”! I’m very honored!
Twitter + Group Medical Visits = ?
The concept is simple. Group Medical Visits already exist. So:
Take 10 minutes at the midpoint of the visit and have everyone tweet their feelings, keywords, anything! (with designated hashtag)
Visualize in real-time with Twitterfall
Discuss, discuss, discuss!
This is a story about today.
So you’re a patient. You’ve been waiting a long, long time. This place never gets better. Even though this is “your appointment” and “your day”, despite knowing that the doctors are so, so nice — wonderful, really – you find yourself cringing at the unmistakable “busy” in the air.
We’re two hours behind schedule, you hear someone whisper from behind a pulled curtain, and you start to feel foolish.
Maybe you shouldn’t ask this question, …
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