I thought it was about time to write a post about the woes of doctor-patient email.

Last week, a friend was having some issues with his phone, so his family doctor’s office couldn’t get in touch to inform him of the date of his specialist’s appointment. He didn’t know about the trouble until he popped in for a visit, which was when his doctor asked him – if he didn’t hear by a certain date – to call the specialist …

Read on »

 
Update (Jan. 15th, 2010): Thanks to Dr. Vartabedian (@Doctor_V) for featuring this campaign on his blog 33charts!

Here it is: I snapped a photo of the Privacy-In-Practice posters that University Health Network (UHN) has posted in its hospitals.
Looks like “Facebook, Twitter or blogs” are the big shots here. Do you think there are any other popular social media avenues that deserve to be listed as well?
For more information, see the post I wrote about seeing these posters for the first time …

Read on »

Facebook, Twitter, RSS, etc. may have changed the way I communicate, but in some arenas, the mere acknowledgement of social media still moves at a glacial pace. Naturally, I was surprised to see that the local hospitals’ notice boards had been outfitted with colourful new posters. Privacy tips, they were entitled.
The first one I came across went something like this:
Privacy Tip #14
Post wisely…
Cut detail when posting on Facebook, Twitter, or blogs.
Patients can be recognized without their names.
The social …

Read on »

DrV’s new post, a discussion on why teenagers don’t use Twitter (itself inspired by a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern’s tech report), started me thinking on some conversations I’ve had this week with various teenagers aged 14 to 17.
Now these are pretty web-savvy teens – they have their own domain names, build websites for their schools, and had plenty to say when I picked their brains on Google Wave, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, iPhone, and a lot more. However, they …

Read on »