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SPOTLIGHT: Could social media threaten medical students' job prospects?
A new study suggests that a full 60 percent of medical schools felt students' posts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter were inappropriate. Meanwhile, recruiters are using these networks to... Read more...
Trend: Search firms, in-house recruiters focus on Internet to find doctors
In the past, it was fairly standard for medical practices and hospitals to pick up the phone and contact their favorite physician search firm when they needed to recruit a doctor. These days,... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Coping with objections to hospital social media use
Increasingly, hospital marketers are concluding that getting engaged in the social media world is important--but often, they face a boatload of resistance from their colleagues. The situation isn't... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Using Twitter as a drug adverse effect reporting system
Want to put out the word when a drug has an adverse effect? Why not harness the viral effect of Twitter messaging? After all, most physicians already use the web and email messages, and many are... Read more...
MedPAC seeks changes in physician payment incentives; Coalition promotes electronic ordering of imaging tests;
> In an announcement likely to be taken seriously--as its recommendations may soon be implemented automatically--MedPAC has released a report suggesting that Medicare change the way it pays... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Live Twitter updates on surgeries seen as useful tool
While the whole thing sounds strange to me, it appears that hospitals are increasingly taken with the idea of "tweeting"--sending short messages via web service Twitter--details of surgeries as the... Read more...
