Twitter in Healthcare settings for educational purposes

Henry Ford Health Systems used Twitter to broadcast a recent partial nephrectomy robotic surgery. Here is a snippet from the article describing the mechanics on the use of social media.

"So how does a Twittered surgery work? In this case, the primary surgeon, Craig Rogers, MD, sits at a terminal guiding a robot from a remote console about eight feet from the patient. The entire surgical procedure is being displayed in 3-D on large monitors in the OR, so the person doing the Twittering, Rajesh Laungani, MD, chief resident of urology at Henry Ford Hospital, can give Twitter followers a play-by-play of the surgical action."

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