Sharing Content in Medicine: Readlists

Sharing Meaningful Medical Content

Face it, our patients forget nearly 80% or more of what we tell them after they leave our office.  We may have shared some very valuable tidbits of information or post-surgical instructions with them … and when they return to the office we may be disappointed that they didn’t do what we asked of them. 

Perhaps it was our fault….. ?  

How can we meaningfully share information with patients and give them a resource so that they can then review that informmation…

Sharing Meaningful Medical Content

Face it, our patients forget nearly 80% or more of what we tell them after they leave our office.  We may have shared some very valuable tidbits of information or post-surgical instructions with them … and when they return to the office we may be disappointed that they didn’t do what we asked of them. 

Perhaps it was our fault….. ?  

How can we meaningfully share information with patients and give them a resource so that they can then review that informmation…

• At a time of their choosing
•  On their chosen reader 
• Mobile platform 
• Or one of your social media properties?

Enter Readlists…  

What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone

Readlist Homepage

 After you sign up (it’s free) …  You can then “Make a Readlist” 

Then Create your Readlist … 

Then you to share your Readlist via a mobile app, Kindle, Twitter, etc…. 

How cool is that?!?!?

Learn more about Sharing Content in Medicine: Readlists at Howard J. Luks, MD.