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Mayo Clinic has a new educational video to communicate our guidelines for appropriate employee use of social media and to encourage creative work-related application of social tools in health care.
#SocialAtMayo – Social Media Guidelines for Mayo Clinic Employees is part of our orientation program for new hires and also will be distributed to the broader base of 60,000 current employees. Our Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media produced the video as part of our charge to “improve health globally by accelerating effective application of social media tools throughout Mayo Clinic and spurring broader and deeper engagement in social media by hospitals, medical professionals and patients.”
“We have three major goals for this video,” explains Farris Timimi, M.D., medical director for the Center for Social Media. “First, we wanted to clearly and concisely communicate Mayo’s expectations of professionalism and reinforce high standards of behavior for our employees to preserve the trust our patients put in Mayo Clinic.
"Second, we wanted our employees to know about the resources, in-depth training and consultation services available to them through the Center for Social Media, to help them take advantage of social tools to do their work more effectively and efficiently. And finally, by making the video available externally on YouTube, we’re providing a resource other organizations can use in their employee training, or that may inspire creation of their own videos.”
Mayo Clinic created our Center for Social Media in July 2010 with a mission of “leading the social media revolution in health care, contributing to health and well-being for people everywhere.” We launched the Social Media Health Network later that year to bring together like-minded organizations interested in navigating the challenges of social media together and in promoting health-related application of social media tools. Employees of member organizations have full access to all resources on the Network site and qualify for discounted registration on training and networking events sponsored by the Center for Social Media.
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