Empowering Patients, Families and Your Hospital with Digital Health

Dr. Justin Smith, better known as the popular online pediatrician @TheDocSmitty, advocates the value of clinicians being active with social media and digital health tools. Unlike other physicians, he chose years ago not to complain about patients who empowered themselves and researched their own conditions. In his words, “If we’re not creating good health information, how can we complain about the bad information they are bringing in?” Learn how he gained institutional support as a clinician to make a national name for himself – and consequently for his hospital, Cook Children’s – as well as what mhealth tools he foresees being part of the pediatric clinic of the future.

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