Category Archives: Health Care Social Media

How to BEST BE a Crohn’s Disease, Colitis or Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patient?

Posted on April 7, 2013 | 1 Comment

This is Video Answer Number ONE (1) in a NEW Video Series of Answers to Important Questions for the Crohn’s Disease, Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patient. These Answers have been compiled with the knowledge and experience of the growing members of the Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol (the “CDWP”). This is NOT Medical Advice and is being offered solely for support, by Patients, for Patients.

This 6-minute Video details the following CDWP Answer to this Question:

Find the Right Doctor FOR YOU;
Collaborate with your Doctor;
Patient “Engagement” – Don’t be Passive;
Organize & Collect your Medical Data; and
Learn to be “Patient” & Maintain “Perspective.”

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Tagged autoimmune diseases, CDWP, Colitis, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Crohn's Disease Warrior Patrol, Crohnie, Crohnies, HCSM, IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, MedStartr.com, Michael A. Weiss, Patient Education, Patient Engagement, Patient Support, Perspective

Incredibly Generous Volunteer Response to Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol

Posted on March 20, 2013 | Leave a comment

As most of you know, we launched the Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol a few weeks ago and the Volunteer Response from ACROSS the US and beyond has been INSPIRING. It’s incredible how such a simple idea evokes the generous spirit to help other patients going through what you’ve already experienced. Crohn’s Disease “Warriors” have signed up to volunteer for the Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol from Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Seattle, Cleveland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wyoming, Ontario, Canada, Brazil, New York, Long Island, Los Angeles, San Francisco and all places in-between. Please consider SIGNING UP or SUPPORTING US. Thanks.

Below are short REAL “testimonials” which demonstrate the PASSION of these selfless Volunteers who make up the Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol.

I am constantly learning about myself through this disease and others with it. If I can be of help to anyone and experience other IBDers, what a gift! – Honolulu, Hawaii

I have wanted to help others for many years now and this would be perfect! Landsdale, PA

I feel that there is a need for this type of help to talk to patients facing a new diagnosis of IBD and Ostomy. I would love to help in any way I could. Mobile, Alabama

I would love to share my experiences or just listen to others vent or talk it out. Just be there because I understand & have been through most of it. Bethpage, NY

So glad that I ran across this new program. My CCFA support group just discussed how awesome it would be to be able to visit newly-diagnosed IBD patients, even in the hospital, as most have never heard of it and are likely “freaking out” about their diagnosis. Niles, MI

I feel this is such a great program for people that are scared and alone in the hospital. Even if they aren’t alone, it’s of paramount importance that they talk to someone with this disease-at least that’s my opinion. Doctors and nurses can only empathize to a degree. Greensburg, PA

Would like to sign up to be a Warrior and help those worse off than me! Bridgewater, NJ

I would be willing to be a Crohn’s Disease Warrior (“CDW”) and visit hospitalized patients. There are a lot of us IBD’ers here. If I can help, please let me know Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

I am very seasoned & qualified to do visits to new patients. Please let me know if I can help. Central Michigan

I would like to go and visit Crohn’s patients in the hospital. Fort Collins, CO but I could also visit between Cheyenne, WY, and Denver, CO.

I would Love nothing more than to give back and take even an ounce of degradation/humiliation from a fellow Chron-ee and prove it WiLL be alright!! I have been looking for a program exactly like this and I HoPE that I can help in any way!! Los Angeles, CA

I would be happy to visit, support, run errands for anyone in the hospital. San Francisco, CA

I am a 38 year old Crohn’s patient, diagnosed 10 years ago and live in the Seattle area. First I would like to thank you for such an awesome idea! I have spent many nights in the ER or hospital room, alone and honestly I can’t even imagine being a child going through this! Seattle, WA

I’d be happy to share my story with people recently diagnosed or ongoing patients so that they can see there is “life” with Crohn’s. It’s not always easy but I’ve learned that attitude goes a long way! Long Island, NY

I have visited Crohn’s patients in the hospital many times to help them before or after a surgery. Just to be there to listen, talk, teach, cry – whatever it took to let them know they are not alone. Cleveland, OH

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Tina Fey HILARIOUS Drug Parody Commerical – Is FDA watching?

Posted on March 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

Tina Fey / SNL – Drug Parody Video – “Annuale”

I made reference to this CLASSIC video last night in my Speech before the distinguished attendees at Health 2.0 NYC to point out the absurdity of TV Drug commercials aimed directly at Patients. This Hilarious 2-minute Parody captures why these advertisements to the captive audiences of television watchers are devoid of any credibility. The beginning video images of these ads for drugs like Humira, Lyrica and the usual suspects of erectile dysfunction drugs first appear to sell “Hope” to desperate patients yet if the viewer LISTENS CAREFULLY the legal disclaimers about possible side effects all but negate that Hope.

FDA – Analog Regulations thwarting Pharma Digital Opportunities

I understand the FDA has a difficult task ahead of it in trying to regulate Pharma promotional efforts in the “Digital” world of Social Media. But as this parody so eloquently points out, permitting pharmaceutical television ads targeted directly at passive Patients is a joke because broadcast television, in the context of Pharma Promotion, is NOW an “Analog” technique that only serves to thwart Pharma’s digital opportunities in health care social media. The voice-over warnings in these analog TV drug commercials dilute the possible efficacy of the drugs. However, we live in a society where we all have the attention-spans of mosquitoes such that the opening video images of these television commercials are manipulative as they make such an indelible impression that the patient is actually done an injustice by being exposed to such duplicitous promotional efforts.

FDA/Pharma MUST Embrace the Digital World – like the Entertainment Industries

I don’t blame Pharma for these border-line deceitful commercials as they are only doing what they are permitted to do under ambiguous piece-meal FDA “regulations” which serve no purpose other than to insure the FDA is not sued for encroaching upon Pharma’s 1st Amendment-based protected “commercial speech.” But the FDA, if they truly intend to LEAD and REGULATE, needs to re-envision the new Digital world in which we live where “Patient Engagement” in Social Media is to Pharma what the mp3 file was to the Record industry. The Record industry initially had problems regulating these digital downloadable files but eventually they figured it out. Hollywood followed their lead and enacted various measures to encourage the growth of digital opportunities while simultaneously controlling piracy. The running joke in Hollywood at the time was that the only reason they weren’t as badly impacted by the proliferation of the Web and Peer-to-Peer File Sharing sites as the Record industry was because back then it took much longer to download Video Movie files. That changed quickly, however, and Hollywood learned from their entertainment industry colleagues in the Record industry.

The FDA and Pharma need to LEARN from these examples set by these two (2) hyper-sensitive high-profile industries which are just as much a part of daily life in the United States as Patients taking drugs to combat serious medical ailments. Moreover, it’s only going to get more challenging with the almost daily proliferation of digital opportunities when the FDA and Pharma must embrace mobile health, electronic health and health care social media into the practice of medicine and the businesses of Healthcare and Pharma. Therefore, please take the 2-minutes to watch this video as its humor is thought-provoking and hopefully instructive to the FDA and Pharma where the word “Promotion” needs to be transformed into meaning “Patient Engagement.”

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Posted in Colitis, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Drug Commerical Parody, Drug TV commercials, FDA, Health Care Social Media, Humira, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Medical Humor, Patient Engagement, Pharma

Tagged "Health Care Social Media", Annuale, Auto-Immune Disease, Colitis, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, FDA, Funny, Health 2.0 NYC, Healthcare, Humira, IBD, Lyrica, Michael A. Weiss, mp3, Patient Engagement, Pharma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Tina Fey

KevinMD.com Interview re: proliferation of Health Care Social Media (“HCSM”)

Posted on January 28, 2013 | 1 Comment

Sometimes in life, all you have to do is ASK. That’s how I managed to get Kevin Pho, MD, Founder of KevinMD.com, a/k/a “social media’s leading physician voice,” to grant me an exhaustive Interview about the increased role of Health Care Social Media (“HCSM”) in the Practice of Medicine. The combination of our respective backgrounds as Physician and Patient made for a compelling and informative interview which covered BOTH perspectives with respect to HCSM. Ergo, whether you are a medical professional, patient, doctor, medical school student, etc., I think you will enjoy Dr. Pho’s informative and thoughtful answers as we talked about everything from Rating Physicians on-line to integrating mobile health & Smartphones into the traditional medical examination room to the present/future effects of ObamaCare on Healthcare and discussed the prospects of using technology like Skype for Video Medical Exams and chronic illness Follow-ups.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with KevinMD.com, here are the formidable accolades and “notices” of his extraordinary career in HCSM:

“Social Media’s Leading Physician Voice”
KevinMD.com is the web’s leading destination for physician insight on breaking medical news.
Klout named KevinMD.com the web’s top social media influencer in health care and medicine. (Klout is a company that provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across his or her social network. The analysis is done on data taken from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, and measures the size of a person’s network, the content created, and purports to measure how other people interact with that content.)
Forbes hailed KevinMD.com as a “must-read blog,” and CNN named @KevinMD as one of its five recommended health care Twitter feeds.
His commentary regularly appears in USA Today, where he is a member of their editorial Board of Contributors, as well as CNN and the New York Times. His opinion pieces highlight the challenges everyday doctors face, ranging from the primary care shortage to the epidemic of physician burnout.
He also shares his social media insights in the upcoming book, “Establishing, managing, and protecting your online reputation: A social media guide for physicians and medical practices.”

I separated the January 24, 2013, Interview into 3-parts and TODAY posted all three parts at once because Dr. Pho’s answers were so succinct yet thorough that I didn’t see the point to staggering them out. Accordingly, the Links to all three (3) are below and consume/enjoy them at your convenience and PLEASE feel free to share any COMMENTS on my Blog.

KevinMD.com Interview re: Health Care Social Media – Part 1 of 3

KevinMD.com Interview re: Health Care Social Media – Part 2 of 3

KevinMD.com Interview re: Health Care Social Media – Part 3 of 3

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Tagged "Health Care Social Media", Affordable Care Act, CNN, Crohn's Disease Warrior Patrol, eHealth, Empowered Patient, HCSM, Kevin Pho MD, KevinMD, Medical Blog, medical mobile phone apps, mHealth, mobile health, ObamaCare, Physician Reviews, rating doctors, Smartphones

Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol GATHERS STEAM!!!

Posted on January 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

Thanks to a generous and talented Uncle/Graphic Designer, Stuart Fishman, above are the 3 Logos for the Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol (“CDWP”). We will soon be selling these T-Shirts to help Raise Awareness of the CDWP Project and to Raise some funding to move the CDWP Project along as it has literally become a nationwide Grassroots Patient Movement thanks to the “word-of-mouth” assistance from the various Health Care Social Media platforms. To that end, I anticipate having these T-shirts ready for sale in 2-3 weeks, at the latest. Don’t worry; I will get the word out. There will also be additional CDWP Logo licensed products used to help raise Awareness and Funding but it’s all a little “overwhelming” now and I must proceed methodically. But I am incredibly thankful for the support!

From southern/northern California, New York City, New York State, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Arizona, Philadelphia, Minnesota, St. Louis, Seattle, Colorado, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Ontario, Canada and MANY points in-between, veteran Crohn’s Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (“IBD”) patients have been kind enough to INSTANTLY SIGN-UP on our website to offer up ANY kind of help they can, in their geographic part of North America, to both the newly diagnosed or to patients hospitalized with these so often misunderstood, painful and difficult autoimmune diseases.

The willingness of veteran Crohn’s and IBD patients to so quickly share what they’ve learned and experienced during their respective “journeys” has been inspirational. It proves my hypothesis that: “Patients helping other Patients is the BEST Medicine.” For that, I thank you and encourage you all to tell your friends to SIGN-UP as fellow veteran “Warriors” at www.crohnsdiseasewarriorpatrol.org or at @CrohnsIBDPatrol. (Please Note: ONLY I receive these emails and tweets).

When you do SIGN-UP, it is helpful to include your contact information including locale, age, Crohn’s/IBD “situation,” etc. so I can make the most logical and effective MATCHES between veteran “Warrior” and current Crohn’s/IBD Patients In Need.

If you are a current Crohn’s Disease or IBD Patient IN NEED (or a friend or family member of a Patient IN NEED), please contact me by one of the following methods:

Tweet – @CrohnsIBDPatrol

Email – CrohnsDiseaseWarriorPatrol@gmail.com

THANKS

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Inaugural Hospital Visit of “Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol”

Posted on December 31, 2012 | 8 Comments

In this case, a Picture truly does say a thousand words so I will keep this brief.

A bunch of folks on Facebook with Crohn’s Disease and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (“IBD”), were notified by Ivy Lindsay of “Comfort Ostomy Covers by Ivy” that a 9-year old boy named Damon had been hospitalized SINCE NOVEMBER 1, 2012 with a variety of life-threatening ailments which HIPAA prevents me from disclosing. However, Damon BEAT THE ODDS and continues to get better although he will be battling for a while. Part of his battle involves areas which we Crohn’s and IBD veterans or “Warriors” are familiar with. Hence, the inaugural “Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol” hospital visit at Maria Ferari Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York.

Ivy Lindsay orchestrated things on Facebook and she and I spoke on the phone on Saturday, December 29, 2012. After being told the specifics, Marisa Lauren Troy and Jeffrey LeVine immediately volunteered to come with me on Sunday, December 30, 2012, to visit with Damon and his two (2) Moms. All we wanted to do was bring some knowledge and comfort to them and help alleviate the enormous stress of being a hospital patient or loving a hospital patient. Thankfully, our visit seemed to work as we each shared our respective experiences with Damon and his Moms and, before we knew it, Damon was smiling a bit and even willing to stroll on over to the couch with his IV Pole and various other hospital “attachments” to take the above picture. We also had the privilege of meeting and getting to know some extraordinary people in Damon and his Moms.

In reaction to the posting of the above picture on various Health Care Social Media Platforms, the outpouring of wonderful messages, gestures, thoughts, etc. regarding Damon has been INCREDIBLE. Some have even responded with wanting to send “care packages” of video games and the like. If you want to do that for Damon, please just contact me and I will pass it along in terms of where to mail it and whatnot.

If you are interested in helping the Non-Profit Organization we have built to make these hospital visits possible, please visit http://crohnsdiseasewarriorpatrol.org and click on “Donate” / “Sign Up Here” tab. Or you can just click on the Screenshot Picture below.

Thanks and have a Happy and Healthy New Year.

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Posted in Child Hospital Patient, Crohn's Disease Warrior Patrol, Health Care Social Media, Hospital, Hospital Patient, Hospital Patient Experience, Hospitalizations, Hospitals, Inspirational, Visiting Hospital Patient

Tagged "Health Care Social Media", 26Acts, Colitis, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Crohn's Disease Warrior Patrol, Crohnie, Crohnies, Damon, Hospital visit, Hospitalizations, hospitalized, Hospitals, IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Maria Ferari Children's Hospital, PICC line, visiting hospital patient

Interview w/ CEO of Wego Health – “Empowering Health Activists to help Others”

Posted on December 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

The motto above comes from the company Wego Health which counts among its primary assets, “Patient Influencers,” whom they empower to help bring about positive change in both the business and practice of Medicine. I am one of those “Patient Influencers” for “Crohn’s Disease” and “Managing Chronic Illness,” and I recently had the privilege of interviewing its CEO, Jack Barrette, at a Pharmaceutical Social Media Conference in New York City to find out how such a “Patient-centric” company operates.

After spending only a few minutes talking with Wego Health’s Jack Barrette, it’s apparent Wego Health envisions Patients as possibly the most valuable resource in Medicine today. How Wego Health utilizes these “Patient Influencers” to help a myriad of people, professions and industries within the catch-all of “the practice of medicine” is the focus of our discussion.

Jack Barrette, CEO

Wego Health

180 Lincoln Street, 5th Floor

Boston, MA 02111

@HealthyJack

www.WegoHealth.com

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Tagged 2012 Wego Health Activist Awards, Chronic Illness, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, empowering health activists, HCSM, Health Activist Awards, Health Activists, Health Apps, Healthcare, Ignite, Ignite Speeches, Interview, Jack Barrette, Medical Apps, mHealth, Michael A. Weiss, Mobile Apps, Patient Advocates, Patient Influencers, Patient-centric, Patients, Pharma, pharmaceutical companies, Social Media, The Empowered Patient, Wego, WEGO Health

Liz Boehm of Experia Health – Humanizing the Healthcare Experience

Posted on December 1, 2012 | 1 Comment

In this episode of “The Healthcare Interview,” Liz Boehm, Director, Patient Experience Collaborative, Experia Health, is asked about “The Patient Experience” by “professional” patient, Michael A. Weiss.

Experia Health, a subsidiary of Vocera Communications, Inc., is a proactive company whose team works with organizations around the globe to bridge the gaps in “the healthcare experience,” restoring and revitalizing the human-to-human connections to improve patient outcomes from a variety of perspectives. In plain speak, they strive to: “Humanize the Healthcare Experience.”

In this 7-minute Interview, Ms. Boehm shares her smart insights and refined expertise on the status of “the healthcare experience,” the almost PTSD-induced pressures faced by dedicated healthcare workers and explains cutting-edge Patient Social Media communication tools such as www.CarePages.com and www.MDconnectME.com. She also details the makings and importance of what could be the first successful “closed” or “secured” social media platform for “authenticated” adolescent hospital cancer patients, presently being tested at the prestigious Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in The Netherlands, for whom ongoing and safely monitored communication with one another has been made possible.

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Posted in Cancer Patients, Health Care Social Media, Health Technology, Hospital Patient Experience, Hospitalizations, Managing Chronic Illness, Patient Technology Tools, Patients as "People", Patients as Consumers, Social Media, The Healthcare Interview

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Mental Health Providers using Health Care Social Media in Therapy

Posted on November 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

In this 2012 Interview, which is Part 2 of a 2-Part interview with Steph Horgan, LCSW and Tiffany Taft, PsyD, of Oak Park Behavioral Medicine located just outside Chicago, Illinois, we discuss how they use various Health Care Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype to treat patients with various chronic illnesses.

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Tagged "Health Care Social Media", Auto-Immune Disease, Chronic Illness, Colitis, Counseling, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Crohnie, Crohnies, HCSM, IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental Health Therapy, Michael A. Weiss

How to use Social Media to Manage Chronic Illness

Posted on October 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

Using Social Media to Manage Chronic Illness from Michael Weiss

I created this PowerPoint Presentation for an “Ignite” Speech at the “Partnership with Patients Summit” recently held in Kansas City, MO. An “Ignite” speech is one with Twenty (20) PowerPoint Slides; but each can only be shown for Fifteen (15) seconds. It is more like an “Improv” art-form which when done well results in a succinct 5-minute speech that educates the audience about a topic with which they were unfamiliar. It is also fun to create and fascinating to watch the styles of other Ignite Speeches since they are usually presented by several different people at a Conference or at an Ignite Get-Together. If you’ve never heard of Ignite Speeches, check out these taped Live examples. Please also note it was the first Ignite speech I had ever prepared and I am not the most gifted PowerPoint operator!

In terms of my Ignite Presentation, it is predicated on what I believe is a technology-powered grassroots Patient Movement called Health Care Social Media (#hcsm on Twitter). I used my 30 years of experience with Crohn’s Disease to walk the audience through how Health Care Social Media could help them if they are ever diagnosed with a chronic illness. My slides and points ranged from broad education to specific engagement with other Crohn’s patients to even suggested coping skills. For example, I included some Podcast information on “The BS Report with Bill Simmons,” an ESPN Podcast with “Sports Guy” Bill Simmons because listening to my favorite podcast helps me “cope” when I am hospitalized for Crohn’s. It’s the power of a familiar voice amidst the chaos of the hospital setting that makes me feel like I’m at home listening while taking a walk or trying to relax which makes the inclusion of such a slide therapeutic. I also broadened the scope to show how it is very easy to find patient communities for Rheumatoid Arthritis and even ones regarding general patient advocacy like CNN’s, “The Empowered Patient.”

I learned a great deal by putting this together and also by taking in the styles of the other presenters. I can’t think of the last time that happened so I’m looking forward to my next Ignite speech. By then, I will hopefully have mastered how to properly “size” Screen Grabs so they convey the message I’m trying to communicate! So, enjoy the Presentation and I beg you to just be “creative” and keep in mind that it was “15 seconds and onto the next slide,” whether I was ready or not.

In any event, my Ignite speech should make you a more Assertive and Empowered Patient.

“Ignite – enlighten us, but make it quick.”