Social Media ROI in Business

Almost everyday i run into these Seniors who (used to) laugh off the Social Media revolution, regarding it as a peripheral happenning. It was good for their child”s social life, but Business uses of Social media? They could not see ANY. I hope they see this video and learn a few things.

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Reducing Medical errors in Clinical practice

Ten years ago, a national panel of health care experts released a landmark report on medical errors in the American health care system. Published by the Institute of Medicine, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” estimated that as many as 98,000 people died in hospitals each year as a result of preventable mistakes. Being hospitalized, it turned out, was far riskier than riding a jumbo jet. 

via thedoctorschannel.com

Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation. The report comes 10 years after the Institute of Medicine’s “To Err Is Human” analysis, which found that 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying annually due to these errors and called for the medical community and government to cut that number in half by 2004.

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Revisiting Child Rights after 20 years

Modern contraceptives in India

Recently, Birth control ring NuvaRing was recently (December2009) launched in India by Organon (India).

Organon (India), incorporated in the year 1967, is a global biopharmaceutical company. Earlier known as Infar (India), it got its present name on Dec. 31, 2002. The company is part of the American pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough, which is a world class provider of human healthcare prescription, consumer and animal health products. It is among the leaders in the areas of gynecology, fertility, neuroscience and anesthesia.”NuvaRing heralds a new era in contraception in the Indian market,” said KG Anathakrishnan, managing director of Organon (India) Limited

NuvaRing is a flexible, transparent ring containing hormones that are dispersed throughout the ring’s core and absorbed through the vaginal lining directly into the bloodstream, when inserted. The exact positioning of the ring is not critical for it to work. Additionally, the ring works, like ‘the Pill’, by inhibiting ovulation. In order to prevent pregnancy for a full month, NuvaRing must be inserted and left in place for three consecutive weeks. After a one week ring-free interval, a new ring must then be inserted in order to have continued contraceptive effect.

Introduction of Nuvaring(r) in India allows another flexible choice for female contraception.According to recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) survey (India), despite availability of various modern contraceptive methods, modern contraceptive usage is limited to less than 50 per cent of women under age 50 years.

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Social Media in Public Health

A slidedeck describing how social media can be used for Public Health.

To tweet or not to tweet? : Exploring the use of Social Media for [public] health

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