Joseph M. Woodside

Social media maturity model

Abstract Technology and consumer behavior are driving the development of new business models using social media for delivering healthcare, behavior support, and health information. This new environment creates opportunities for improving overall care. The effective adoption of social media into the business model requires that businesses reach certain levels of knowledge, sophistication, and integration of their social media strategy. A healthcare organizations position relative to the progression of capability levels reflects its social media maturity. A social media maturity model can be an important tool healthcare managers can use to determine where their organization stands in terms of its social media capabilities, what strategies are appropriate to its maturity level, and how to move to the next level. While the implementation of strategies employing social media has been extensively studied in marketing literature and applications in industry, none exist which identify the specific practices, criteria, and methodology for healthcare. This article seeks to develop a social media maturity model for healthcare organizations.

Spatial Patterns and Neighborhood Characteristics of Overall Suicide Clusters in Florida From 2001 to 2010

INTRODUCTION Although spatial examination of mortality and morbidity is becoming more common in health studies, the investigation of suicide death clusters within the neighborhood context is underutilized. The purpose of this ecological study is to detect high- and low-risk clusters of suicide deaths in Florida and determine which neighborhood characteristics distinguish clusters from non-clusters. METHODS The scan statistic method was used to detect overall clusters of completed suicides in Florida from 2001 to 2010. Regression analysis was used to investigate the association of neighborhood characteristics with identified clusters. All data synthesis and statistical analyses were conducted in 2015. RESULTS Twenty-four high-risk and 25 low-risk clusters were identified. The risk of suicide was up to 3.4 times higher in high-risk clusters than in areas outside of clusters (relative risk ranged from 1.36 to 3.44, p≤0.05). Low-risk clusters were associated with 30%-94% decreased risk of suicide (relative risk ranged from 0.06 to 0.70, p≤0.05). Areas with high levels of elderly concentration and household singularity were more likely to be in high-risk clusters, whereas areas with higher economic deprivation and residential density were more likely to be in low-risk clusters. CONCLUSIONS This study identified general suicide patterns across space in the state of Florida and described the characteristics of those areas.

Developing Curricular Modules in Context: Mobile Healthcare Security

In this paper, we describe a mobile healthcare security curricular module that has been developed and evaluated for use in the classroom.

Organizational health management through metaphor: a mission-based approach

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the underlying metaphors that hospitals use to establish their organizational mission. Metaphors impact the direction and managerial decision making of organizations, and provide a method to more easily communicate to a variety of stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach A text analytics process is run to evaluate the mission statements from the largest hospitals by revenue in each of the 50 states of the USA and District of Columbia to identify the types of metaphor-based organizational health management methods. Findings A cluster analysis is generated to evaluate primary mission-based metaphors, and metatriangulation is used to evaluate output, develop theory and provide practical implications for healthcare management. Originality/value Key contributions include a review of healthcare metaphors, an analysis for understanding commonly utilized metaphors, a theory building process for developing a new integrated value-based care management metaphor, and a value-based process is developed for providing healthcare managers an easy to follow and repeatable process for improving organizational communication.

Real-world rigour: An integrative learning approach for industry and higher education

In the interests of better preparing students for the world of work and developing the industry competencies that graduates need, this article sets out an integrative learning approach for higher education development at the undergraduate and graduate levels to improve academic excellence through real-world rigour across all disciplines of industry and higher education. Real-world rigour is required to increase the adaptability of higher education graduates in a fast-changing business environment and to ensure that graduates have gained the industry competencies in higher education that will enable them to be successful in the future workforce. Changes such as automation and new skills requirements will have major employment impacts in the future.

Emerging markets: the impact of ICT on the economy and society

Purpose The purpose of this research is to quantifiably measure the relationship between technological advancement, economic growth and societal employment trends across the Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) countries, while also describing various government initiatives and policy steps taken to promote technology development. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the relationship between the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development Index (IDI), gross domestic product (GDP) and unemployment data. The paper also reviews the broadband and e-readiness components of each BRIC nation to further describe the policies in adoption of ICT. Findings This research concludes that there is in fact a significant positive correlation between technology (as measured by IDI) and economy (as measured by a nation’s GDP) and there is a significant negative correlation between technology (as measured by IDI) and a nation’s unemployment rate benefiting the society. Originality/value This research seeks to describe the impact of Information Communication Technology on economic and society indices in BRIC. Paper contributions include an empirical measurement and relationship between technological advancement, economic growth and employment trends across the BRIC countries, while also describing various government policy initiatives taken to promote technology.

Virtual Health Management

By 2030, 49% of the US population are projected to have a chronic condition, accounting for 78% of total healthcare costs. Despite significant investments in healthcare and information technology, healthcare costs continue to rise and errors still persist. A smarter health and wellness focus is required to allow proactive and preventative care through virtual health management conducted by patients and their care team, in a patient-centric and patient empowered information environment, resulting in a proactive and preventative care. There are many new healthcare management opportunities and technical challenges as a result of Big Data and outcomes can be further improved when combined with self-management. A virtual health management solution with the components of Big Data sharing, decision support, virtual management, and care team monitoring is critical to improving quality and reduction of costs.