Important Health Care Communications Resources

App tools from AAF-BR Mobile App Workshop

Getrappidap.com

Biznessapps.com

mobileroadie.com

How to test your site for relevance to mobile

February 2011 Monitoring tools from PRSA Tactics

  • Technorati.com (blog focus)
  • Backtype.com (comment focus)
  • yacktrack.com/home – searches for comments across a spectrum of platforms such as Digg, Blogger and WordPress
  • Blogpulse.com
  • Boardtracker.com – searches discussion boards for comments about your brand
  • Search.twitter.com – searches for terms beyond your own Twitter timeline
  • Tweetbeep.com – delivers alerts to you by email
  • Hashtags.org
  • Howsociable.com – measures your brand’s visibility across 32 platforms
  • Collecta.com – monitors update streams of news sites, blogs, and social media in real-time
  • Socialmention.com  – broad based search engine for social media sites
  • Addictomatic – creates a custom page to organize the latest buzz on your topics
  • Pipes.yahoo.com/pipes – sets up auto news alerts.

 

February 2011  Twittering journalists and media outlets:  http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog and https://twitteringjournalists.pbwiki.com

January 2011  Healthcare Twitter Hashtags

July 2010   How To Find Historical Conversations on Twitter

How to find historical updates Aligning Incentives in Medicare – MedPac report June 2010.  For all the policy wonks among us.  Includes recommendations for Quality Improvement Organizations

Kaiser News Network’ Simple Guide to Health Care Reform — one pager, easy to understand with dates of implementation.  http://bit.ly/a0PxvU 

CMS News – CMS Issues Annual Report on National Health Spending.  Here is the official report, numbers and all, great for quoting.

Top 10 2009 Medical Stories from MedScape – from H1N1 to Alcohol Screening questions, these are great references for stories in 2009.  Top 10 Medical News Stories of 2009

Census: 46.3 Million Americans Uninsured in 2008 – The U.S. Census Bureau announced Thursday that the number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008, while the percentage remained unchanged at 15.4 percent. These findings are contained in the report “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008.” Private health coverage declined by 1 million people, while public coverage rose by 4.4 million. At 11.6 percent, the Northeast and the Midwest had lower uninsured rates in 2008 than the West (17.4 percent) and the South (18.2 percent).

Authority Blogger  awesome quick 100 blog titles, email message idea generator. Used it and approve!

H1n1 simple guide for panicky parents - best two pager I’ve found so far, very clear and easy to use, written for a parents magazine.  The clip is messy, but the information is very well put together.  Here’s the link to the copy on their Web site 

Hospitals Social Media List from Found in Cache

4 Essential Traits for Social Media Success from Mashable

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