For those of you involved in Women’s Health – check out Bedsider.org!

A new site by IDEO and The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy uses straight talk and social-media tools to get young women thinking about sex in a realistic way.

Great use of video on the site as well as SMS for text-reminders for oral contraceptives. For those of you that wonder what Web2.0 and social media have to do with healthcare, this is a great example. As a physician, you should be savvy enough to review a site like this, make sure it has good medical information, make sure it is useful to your patient population, and then recommend this to your patients…

http://www.bedsider.org

Click here for the article by Fast Company describing the evolution of the site

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