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Survey of Twitter and Social Media Use Among US Radiation Oncologists

Physicians have been utilizing Twitter at increasing rates since its founding in 2006. Little is known regarding US radiation oncologists’ (RO) use of Twitter. We conducted a survey to better understand RO utilization of Twitter. After IRB approval, we obtained a public list of RO on Twitter curated by one author (MSK). We emailed a 65-question online survey to these 133 individuals active within the prior month as of March 2019 using Survey Gizmo. We analyzed anonymized responses utilizing descriptive statistics. Of 133 individuals surveyed, 77 responded (58% response rate). 21% were female. Ages of respondents were: 43% 30-39, 36% 40-49, and 21% ≥ 50. 72% worked in an academic practice. Mean follower count was 1440 (SD 2421) and number of accounts followed was 712 (SD 892); no significant difference was found in the number of followers when analyzed by age group, gender, US region, or practice setting (academic vs non-academic). 31% reported using social media during cancer conferences or tumor boards. Workplace policy for social media was not statistically significant in RO academic (53%) vs non-academic setting (43%) (p = 0.4). Male RO reported using >50% of their overall social media time on professional/academic purposes, significantly more than women, (62% vs. 19%, p = 0.004). No significant difference was found between those in academic practices or non-academic practices who used >50% social media time for professional purposes (55% vs 50%, p = 0.5). Answering the question “What do you believe are the benefits to your Twitter engagement? Check all that apply” the most commonly endorsed responses were “educating myself regarding cancer research updates” 87% (67/77), “networking with colleagues in radiation oncology” 74% (57/77), and “educating myself regarding overall medical updates” 71% (55/77). 67.5% responded affirmatively to the question “Do you believe more radiation oncologists should join Twitter?” and 24.7% had “no opinion.” In response to the question “What are your fears regarding your Twitter use? Check all that apply,” responses included: “I am afraid of appearing as self-promoting” 49.4%, “I am afraid of appearing unprofessional” 41.6%, “I do not have any fears about using Twitter” 35.1%, “I am afraid of violating HIPAA” 14.3%, and “I am afraid of sharing erroneous cancer information with the public” 13.0%. Among RO active on twitter, follower counts do not vary by gender, age, or practice setting. Participants perceived both benefits and risks of Twitter engagement. The profession may benefit from further attention to engagement and representation of ROs in Twitter and other potentially influential social media contexts.Tabled 1Abstract 2977; TableStrongly Agree (%)Agree (%)Neutral (%)Disagree (%)Strongly Disagree (%)Social media can improve my clinical skills and knowledge in cancer care23521645Social media enhances my feeling of belonging to the radiation oncology community17472683Social media can be helpful for my career development31392514 Open table in a new tab

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Medication Update alerts readers to new drug approvals and other timely drug information. Healthcare providers should not make clinical decisions from these announcements, as they are not comprehensive. Consult the manufacturer's complete drug product label before prescribing any of the drugs discussed.

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER PREFERENCES RELATED TO DISTRIBUTION OF GAMETE DONOR MEDICAL HISTORY UPDATES

Personal and family medical history is collected from gamete donors during their initial eligibility assessment for participation in a donor program. This medical information captures only a short period of time given that donors are required to be young and healthy at the time of donation. New diagnoses in a gamete donor, a family member or a donor-conceived individual could significantly impact the health management of other donor-conceived offspring. Thus, the ASRM Ethics Committee recently published recommendations for donor programs (1) to encourage donors and recipients to provide medical updates and (2) to develop policies which outline the mechanisms for collecting and distributing updates.

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Telemedicine for Eating Disorders: A Brief Report of a Italian Project

The objectives of the present work are the research and development of a Telemedicine system for therapy and enhanced monitoring of Eating disorders (ED). To this end, useful tools have been developed both for patients and caregivers and for operators: a) a mobile application for medical and psychological updates on the status of patients and through which it is possible to access psychological counselling services for family caregivers; and b) virtual and immersive reality viewers for the therapy of ED patients with social anxiety.

Symposia, Case Conference, and Medical Update.

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Pharmacists and Medical Missions Update.

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Google Medical Update: Why Is the Search Engine Decreasing Visibility of Health and Medical Information Websites?

The Google search engine answers many health and medical information queries every day. People have become used to searching for this type of information. This paper presents a study which examined the visibility of health and medical information websites. The purpose of this study was to find out why Google is decreasing the visibility of such websites and how to measure this decrease. Since August 2018, Google has been more rigorously rating these websites, since they can potentially impact people’s health. The method of the study was to collect data about the visibility of health and medical information websites in sequential time snapshots. Visibility consists of combined data of unique keywords, positions, and URL results. The sample under study was made up of 21 websites selected from 10 European countries. The findings reveal that in sequential time snapshots, search visibility decreased. The decrease was not dependent on the country or the language. The main reason why Google is decreasing the visibility of such websites is that they do not meet high ranking criteria.

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Prediction and Diagnosis of Down Syndrome Disease by using the CHAID Algorithm

Today, development of technology and the use of modern medical equipment and update technology produce massive amounts of stored information in the medical database. Analysis and discovery of knowledge from medical database is difficult due to the high volume of data and is requires a newer technology that data mining technologies to achieve this important to help its powerful algorithms. Data mining techniques with extract knowledge and the unseen patterns from huge volumes of data and build models related to medical databases, designed decision support system that help decision-making to Medical. The main objective of this paper has been to examine how to apply data mining techniques to predict and diagnosis of Down syndrome disease based on the medical information of 200 patients referred to medical laboratories in the country by using data mining algorithm CHAID in Rapid Miner software. The results showed that the CHAID algorithm with 100% accuracy has ability diagnosis of Down syndrome disease.