Chair:  (2010-2013)
Dr. Chris Paton, BMBS BMedSci FACHI    
Senior Research Fellow (Clinical)
University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand
Tel: +64 (0) 9 3737599 ext 83383
Email:

Vice-Chair:  (2010-2013)
Mr. Francisco J Grajales, BHK, MSc (C), CSEP-CEP    
Graduate Student Researcher
University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC
Canada
Tel: +1.209.542.4726
Email:
   
Secretary:  (2010-2013)
Mr. Luis Fernandez-Luque,  MSc    
PhD candidate
Northern Research Institute - Tromso Telemedicine Laboratory
Tromso
Norway
Tel:+47 934 21 287
Email:
   
Website: http://imiasocialmedia.wordpress.com

Forthcoming activities:

A workshop will be held at MIE2011 in Oslo, Norway (http://www.mie2011.org) titled "Towards a Research Agenda for Social Media in Healthcare and Academia". Presenters will be Peter Murray, Chris Paton, Margaret Hansen, Peter Elkin and Luis Fernandez-Luque.

Goals and Objectives:

The Social Media Working Group (SMWG) aims to be IMIA's vehicle for stakeholder engagement in Social Media. Its membership will be international, inclusive, and multidisciplinary.

The IMIA SMWG will engage members from the international health informatics community, across sectors, to identify, explore, collaborate, and disseminate research on the use of social media for health. Of particular interest are the drivers of change, barriers, facilitators, and policies necessary for the application of the various social media categories in the health domain.

These categories include: 1) Social Networks (e.g., Facebook); 2) Professional Networks (e.g., LinkedIn); 3) Thematic Networks (e.g., PatientsLikeMe, TuDiabetes); Microblogs; 4) Blogs; 5) Wikis; 6) Forums/Listservs; 7) Social Photo and Video Sharing Tools; 8) Collaborative
Filtering Tools (e.g., RSS, recommender systems, tagging); and 9) Multi-User Virtual Environments (e.g., Second Life) 10) Social applications and games; 11) Integration of Social Media with Health Information Technologies (e.g. EHRs, PACS, SNOMED); 12) Other (e.g., FriendFeed).

The sectors that will be engaged and invited to participate in this group, include (but are not limited to): 1) IMIA Member Organizations; 2) Academic Bodies; 3) Industry; 4) Governmental research institutions (e.g, US CDC); and 4) Intergovernmental Organizations (e.g., WHO, PAHO, ITU, WMA).

The applications of social media will be explored with particular applications to: 1) health care delivery, 2) health care professional education; 3) public health; 4) clinical and disaster medicine; and 5) research.

Blog: http://imiasocialmedia.wordpress.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/imiasocialmedia

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=3508923

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153666904674185

Last updated: 02 April, 2011