Hospital Social Media Survey

We are currently conducting a social media survey specifically for hospitals and would like for you to participate. If you are interested please feel free to go to the social media survey and let us know what you think. For your time we will provide you with a free copy of the results. Thanks for your time! MedTouch Social Media...

MedTouch Summer Webinar Series: Free Healthcare Webinars

Travel budget cut?  No problem.  We’re bringing you a summer full of the best educational content available.  The best part?  It’s all free.  Think of it as a staycation for your mind. #1: Turn Traffic Into Appointments Why Search Matters With 80% of the American population performing healthcare research online, web marketing has...

Setup MedTouch Tumblr Page

Even wackier than Twitter: the MedTouch Tumblr...

The True Cost of Friendship? 1/10th of a Hamburger. Burger King gets jettisoned from Facebook.

Frequent guests know of my love for all things Facebook and winsome burger commercials, but I never thought the two would meet so well. The NY Times reports today about the lose a friend, gain a whopper campaign: While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends… striking someone off your list simply is not...

What Healthcare Can Learn from the Campaign Trail

MedTouch, the leading provider of interactive, web-based solutions for healthcare, joins forces with SocialSphere, the national leader in social media market development, to explore the secrets of successful online engagement tactics Oct 31, 2008 – Cambridge, MA – MedTouch, the leading provider of interactive, web-based solutions for...

Recent updates: Skagit, Mass Eye and Ear, Brooks, and our webinars!

First, we launched a few sites this summer: 1. Skagit Valley Hospital: a progressive, community hospital north of Seattle with a beautiful campus and now, a website to match it. 2. Mass Eye and Ear launched their first site with us, highlighting their involvement in the Temporal Bone Consortium. 3. Brooks Rehabilitation launched a new version of...

Why Wikipedia Can’t Fix Healthcare

Craig Stoltz from the Health Care Blog writes: There are many good reasons to deplore Wikipedia, not the least of which is its authors’ cultish smuggery about the righteousness of their cause and the rightness of their content. Of course there is also its internecine complexity of processes. The documentation tracing the petty bitchery about an...

Why Even Google Can’t Fix Healthcare

Of my last post about open source food, Jeff Jarvis commented: I wasn’t suggesting that the kitchen should be turned over. I’m exploring the ideas of openness even in restaurants. For example, I’d like to know which dishes get ordered more so I can use that in my decision. Or perhaps diners can suggest improvements in recipes. And so...

Eating New Media

And by way of continuing the conversation from yesterday, Jeff Jarvis wonders if Google ran a restaurant, who would do the cooking? Besides the silliness of open source restaurants as a concept — technique matters far more than recipe — the NY Times contrasted that notion with the need for efficiency in dining, noting that too many...

The Joy of Simplicity

I read an excellent post on Mashable today,  about how less is more and how to unlock the web.   Much of the post concerns Twitter, an application so sublime, it’s hard to put into words what it does for you.   (But you can follow MedTouch on Twitter here.) The power of simplicity can’t be understated.  By example, I had a...