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Social Media for Healthcare: What’s The Potential?

Melissa Agnes

The other day I had a conversation with someone who made a statement about the healthcare industry not needing to be on social media because no one cares about the nurses’ birthdays and little useless memes (I’m SOOO paraphrasing here!). What’s the point of social media for healthcare?

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Newborn Abducted from Hospital and Social Media Saves the Day

Melissa Agnes

An amber alert was issued at 7pm and the picture of the abductor, taken from the hospital’s security footage, was plastered all of local media and social media. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a great example of the power of social media in emergency and crisis situations. Are they trained?

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Melissa Agnes to Conduct Crisis Management Workshop at the GCC Government Social Media Summit in Dubai

Melissa Agnes

As we recently saw with Emory University Hospital and the Ebola controversy , healthcare institutes have a major responsibility and role to play in some serious, high-impacting crises. Emory did a beautiful job at managing this crisis, but not all healthcare institutes are as prepared as Emory was. Implementing strategies.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. and around the world, with a premier niche in the healthcare space. The Advisory Board company also serves 4,100+ member organizations, most of which are in the healthcare industry.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

Over the past year, the healthcare industry found itself under constant attack. However, with only 53% of healthcare and public-sector security decision makers reporting a breach in the past year, it’s likely there are many more breaches going unreported. MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images.

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IMS Consulting Group (IMS Health) Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

A great company that started from humble beginnings, IMS Health is a global leader in providing solutions in the healthcare scene specializing in information, services and technology. In the remaining 15 minutes, you will have to solve a case study – almost exclusively case studies focused on life sciences, pharma, or health care.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

However, the cases that these law firms are involved in can represent any industry imaginable, from telecommunications to manufacturing and everything in between. There is a big focus (based on general litigation trends and market sizes) on healthcare/life sciences/pharma, food manufacturing, intellectual property, TMT, and consumer goods.