This Thursday, August 26th from 1-3pm ET, Phil Baumann (Founder of Health is Social), will be hosting an interesting webinar called “Healthcare Social Media: Perspectives in Practice“. This is the first Health Is Social event, since it’s inception and the cost is $39.

The presenters that Phil has recruited for this webinar are a nice mix of well respected, prominent #HCSM (Healthcare and Social Media) thought leaders, including:

• ePatient Dave - Patient engagement advocate, speaker, author of Laugh Sing & Eat Like a Pig, blogger
• Dr. Bryan Vartabedian (aka Doctor_V) – Kids tummy doctor, father, writer and overall good guy (blog: 33charts.com)
• Erin Macartney (Palo Alto Medical) - Public Affairs, Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Ragan HealthCare MarCom News team
• Angela Dunn – Director of Social Media & Recruiting for Odom Lewis

Here’s a brief description about the webinar…

If you’ve decided that Social Media is here to stay and you’re either planning or implementing your social media strategies and presence, but are still figuring out what to do or what more you can do, then you’ll want to attend this Webinar.

The purpose of the Webinar is to expand on the theoretical bases of healthcare social media with specific examples and views. Health Is Social believes that social media offers a robust array of possibilities within healthcare, requiring different perspectives on what can be done.

In this Webinar, we cover four of these perspectives: the patient’s, the provider’s, the healthcare organization’s and the professional’s (internal staff):

Hospitals, healthcare associations and practitioners interested in developing their online presence are encouraged to attend this Webinar. We believe Social Media goes deeper than just public relations – these new media offer opportunities to improve collaboration, help redesign internal processes and provide novel ways of adding value to all of an organization’s information customers.

If you’re interested in signing up for this, register for the event at Eventbrite.