Comments on: How Twitter will impact health care in 2010 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/12/twitter-impact-health-care-2010.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Buckeye Surgeonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/12/twitter-impact-health-care-2010.html#comment-121796 Buckeye Surgeon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:43:52 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=41803#comment-121796 This is gobbledy-gook: "Today’s concern with privacy will give way to another democratic value: Dignity. In health care, dignity is a central value: nothing is more painful to the essence of being human than violations of dignity. So one of our tasks will be to re-think why we value privacy."What does that even mean?? That patient privacy must cede its primacy to all-powerful Dignity, wherever they conflict???Twitter sucks. It's just a communication shortcut that tries to justify the devaluation of coherence and intellectual depth..... This is gobbledy-gook:
“Today’s concern with privacy will give way to another democratic value: Dignity. In health care, dignity is a central value: nothing is more painful to the essence of being human than violations of dignity. So one of our tasks will be to re-think why we value privacy.”

What does that even mean?? That patient privacy must cede its primacy to all-powerful Dignity, wherever they conflict???

Twitter sucks. It’s just a communication shortcut that tries to justify the devaluation of coherence and intellectual depth…..

]]> By: Gregg Mastershttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/12/twitter-impact-health-care-2010.html#comment-121791 Gregg Masters Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:00:17 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=41803#comment-121791 Thanks Kevin! You may want to check out a recent conversation with Bryan Vartabedian, MD aka @Doctor_V on social media and physician participation: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/2healthguru/2009/12/08/physicians-and-social-media-trends-tea-leaves Thanks Kevin! You may want to check out a recent conversation with Bryan Vartabedian, MD aka @Doctor_V on social media and physician participation: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/2healthguru/2009/12/08/physicians-and-social-media-trends-tea-leaves

]]> By: Wellescent Health Bloghttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/12/twitter-impact-health-care-2010.html#comment-121790 Wellescent Health Blog Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:53:01 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=41803#comment-121790 By 2099, we will likely be part of the web and fully wired into it with various sensors feeding our vital statistics to data warehouses out in the web. The sicker or older we are, the more wired in we will likely be. As a result we could very well find that we interact with our doctors far less personally with their role changing to one more like a systems analyst where computer routines check numerous aspects of our health routinely and automatically while the doctors adjust our dosage of prescriptions via remote control after analyzing the sensor data that we are constantly sending.As we have seen so far, 90 years is a long time for technology innovation. Few of us are likely correct in imagining just how much things might change in all those years. By 2099, we will likely be part of the web and fully wired into it with various sensors feeding our vital statistics to data warehouses out in the web. The sicker or older we are, the more wired in we will likely be. As a result we could very well find that we interact with our doctors far less personally with their role changing to one more like a systems analyst where computer routines check numerous aspects of our health routinely and automatically while the doctors adjust our dosage of prescriptions via remote control after analyzing the sensor data that we are constantly sending.

As we have seen so far, 90 years is a long time for technology innovation. Few of us are likely correct in imagining just how much things might change in all those years.

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