Retailers link with QR Codes

This is a photograph of several retailers with QR codes printed on their brochures -  gracefully taken by Alex Dalidakis for his blog “love number two“. This was not taken yesterday or last… Read More

Leadership in the social media and healthcare ecosystem

Lee Aase is an innovator,  improving the quality of communication between health professionals and clients for his organisation. From Lee’s talk at the 7th HARC  Forum (Sydney 2011) it became clear that there… Read More

Lee Aase and the 7th HARC Forum

Have you heard of a person by the name of Lee Aase? His only formal qualification is a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. I heard him say in reference to it that… Read More

Youth Health 2011 Sydney conference presentation

This post is in conjunction with my presentation on the utilization of social media in health communications targeting youth for sexual health promotion, given at the 8th Australian and New Zealand Adolescent Health… Read More

Measuring online engagement for health services

Taken from the book “Engage” by Brian Solis In the chapter ‘The new media scorecard’ Brian Solis talks about the Social Barometer. This subject is the holy grail of all youth focused health… Read More

HIV prevention and mobile technology in Indonesia

Background The Northern Territory efforts in reducing overseas borne HIV infection has so far seen two “HIV Travellers Campaigns”. Travellers returning from tourist destinations in South East Asia were targeted with appropriate messages… Read More

The evolution of health promotion professionals

As a health promotion professional, do you think about what your work will be like in 25 years? Are we  still going to be raising awareness and  giving out freebies at health expos,… Read More

Using Facebook in Sexual Health Clinical Care

Overview This poster by Lyn Familton from the Christchurch Hospital  Sexual Health Clinic in New Zealand is the first of its genre to debut at the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference held… Read More

Stanford Medicine 2.0 Conference 2011 – The Report Card

Prajesh C., a member of the #hcsmanz community  recently attended and presented at the 4th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine, Health and Biomedical Research (Medicine 2.0)… Read More

Web credibility and ‘non profit’ health organization

Background Most organizations have a web presence and your ‘non profit’ health organization needs one just as much as ‘for profit’ organizations. Two things happen when a client, carer or an ‘involved’ citizen… Read More

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