Exciting project coming to fruition

For several years I've been working with health care providers to utilize social media to better connect with their communities.  I am very excited that a project is coming to fruition, the launching of the Social Media Health Network.   


The Social Media Health Network, a service of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, will provide access to tools, resources and guidance for organizations and individuals that want to apply social media in health and health care. The Network will offer different membership options, including free and paid memberships. 

The online network uses open source content management tools and hosting infrastructure to facilitate future contributions and knowledge crowdsourcing from the Network member community. 


The charter members of the Social Media Health Network are:

• Inova Health System, Reston, Virginia, USA
• Mission Health Care, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Technical Notes

I developed the site in Drupal, using off the shelf modules for functionality, when available.  Modifications to default functionality and 'look and feel' were made to better suit the health care community.  On the back end, the site is served from Amazon EC2, utilizing Pressflow, Memcahce and Apache SOLR to provide quick response and fast data searches.  PHPMyAdmin, ISPConfig and Traq are used for customer and server support.