Monthly Archives: May 2013

Synergistic Impacts of Healthcare and Social Media: An Observational Study

Posted on May 30, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

There have been many articles written on the impact of social media on healthcare.  Likewise, healthcare is transforming social media into a ‘place’ to obtain information on specific diseases, creating patient and provider support in online communities likePatientsLikeMe and  Treatment … Continue reading →

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Five Things Healthcare Can Learn from Project Management

Posted on May 20, 2013 by David Lee Scher, MD

Physicians have traditionally been individual thinkers and doers.  Healthcare in general has been generally slow to adopt proven successful methods of processes and technologies employed with success in other sectors of society.  Medical training from medical school through post-graduate education … Continue reading →

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