This talk was originally given at the 2013 AHPBA Conference for surgical and non-surgical specialists throughout North, South and Central America who care for patients with diseases of the liver, pancreas, and biliary tree. http://www.ahpbaconference.org/index.cfm

1. #SocialQI:
Simple Solutions for
Improving Your Healthcare
Presented by:
Brian S. McGowan, PhD
@briansmcgowan
www.SOCIALQI.com
February 2013

2. Problem #1: Variation In Care
http://www.healthcarereportcard.illinois.gov/maps

3. Problem #2: Failure to Advance

4. Problem #3: Overload & Filter Failures

5. Problem #4: Lack of Information
“Despite recent improvement in timely
publication, fewer than half of trials funded by NIH are
published in a peer reviewed biomedical journal indexed
by Medline within 30 months of trial completion.
Moreover, after a median of 51 months after trial
completion, a third of trials remained unpublished.”

6. Can the Study of Social Network
Science Help Us Change Healthcare?

7. Social Network Science Shows How
Behaviors Flow Through Networks
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082

8. Social Network Science Is Beginning to Be
Employed Across Professional Networks
The impact of “networked weather”

9. The Question Remains:
Do Social (Media) Networks
Impact Innovation in
Medicine?
February 2013

10. Physicians Believe Learning Through Social
Media Improves Their Patient Care
Using Social Media helps improve
the quality of my patient care 7% 8% 6% 17% 29% 22% 10%
Using Social Media enables me
to care for patients more effectively 6% 11% 5% 17% 28% 22% 10%
Using Social Media increases
my job productivity 7% 13% 11% 23% 19% 20% 6%
Using Social Media improves
my job performance 7% 9% 9% 20% 24% 23% 7%
Using Social Media enables me to
accomplish job tasks more effectively 6% 11% 8% 18% 26% 24% 7%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Strongly Disagree Disagree Somewhat Disagree
Neither Agree or Disagree Somewhat Agree Agree
Strongly Agree
http://www.jmir.org/2012/5/e117/

11. Data Suggests Innovation is Driven by
Your Place Within Your Network
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23348089

12. Healthcare Quality is Driven by Social
Network Structure
http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pdf/publications/articles/128.pdf

13. Q and A
#SocialQI:
Simple Solutions for
Improving Your Healthcare
February 2013