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Mayo Clinic has created a social media center that will train other hospitals in the use of social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.Mayo is billing the new venture as “a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on healthcare,” according to a statement from Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo.Mayo has [...]

About a dozen Ohio health causes — including a pioneer of pediatric medical devices in Cleveland, a summer program for high-risk teens in Columbus and a group that encourages breastfeeding in Barberton — think they have great ideas, so they’ve applied for grants from an unlikely source. Pepsi.PepsiCo Inc. is “giving away millions [...]

Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:Why one CEO embraces Facebook at his hospital: Far from a productivity drain, Facebook and other social media should be considered as important a business tool as the phone or e-mail, writes prominent Beth Israel Deaconess CEO-blogger Paul Levy. Levy says he resists efforts [...]

With the explosion of social media, I am amazed at how many cardiologists I encounter who know little to nothing about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and the like. “I’m too busy.” “Who has time for that stuff?” “I wouldn’t have time for anything else.” “How can I possibly keep up?”And yet today, as more [...]

Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of health care:A controversial new type of health insurance in Oregon: Five Oregon health insurers are set to begin selling a new type of “carrot-and-stick” insurance plan that’s aimed at pushing employees towards more proven treatments and away from tests and surgeries that are deemed [...]

Apple has finally drawn back the curtains on its Tablet, er, iPad so what will it mean for health care? The short answer is, of course, “It’s too early to tell.” The long answer is, well, maybe not as much as we’d hoped.

Employees of home health care equipment maker Invacare Corp. are using YouTube videos to woo President Obama to visit their company during his White House to Main Street Tour through Lorain County on Jan. 22.

Tannus Quatre says young providers should “by all means, connect with friends online – connect with strangers.” But, too often, these same physicians forget their reputations are at stake.

Mayo Clinic Medical Edge Weekend is one of two online initiatives the health system announced this week. It also unveiled improvements to its Mayo Clinic Health Manager that add tracking applications to monitor and manage stress, blood pressure and cholesterol.

There are no Ashton Kutcher’s in health care, according to a review of the popularity of hospitals on Twitter.