–Another study tests the wrong approach to social media in medical publishing Here’s the main problem with a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association: they measured the wrong thing with the wrong method. In their new paper the researchers randomized new studies appearing in Circulation to receive social promotion…
New Trend? Free Tablet Computers For All Registrants At TCT Meeting
June 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cardiologists and others who attend this year’s TCT meeting in San Francisco will receive a free tablet computer. TCT is the highly influential interventional cardiology meeting run by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. This year it will take place in San Francisco from October 27 through November 1. Heavily promoted in emails and on the site’s webpage, TCT is promising that…
You Know Nothing, Dr. Snow: Why Medicine Can’t Be More Like Facebook
May 18, 2012 by 3 Comments
Medicine can never be like Facebook, despite what Matt Herper argues over at Forbes. Perhaps he was just trolling for hits on a day when everyone is thinking about the Facebook IPO, but Herper proposed, with apparently seriousness, that medicine needs to model itself on the tech world in order to match the kind of…
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