Healthcare communications: social media listening in a health 2.0 world

By Team VIVA! | May 19, 2011 |

As the exclusive Australian partner to GLOBALHealthPR, Team VIVA! joined our counterparts across Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe, for the first annual International Healthcare Social Media Summit (IHSMS), held at Spectrum Science headquarters in Washington DC. Drawing on real-life scenarios in health and science communications, key speakers at the IHSMS streamed live at 11pm AEST…

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14,000-strong people’s petition striving to save RNSH

By Team VIVA! | May 17, 2011 |

Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) lobbyists are uniting in a last-ditch attempt to save RNSH from an under-funded and impractical redevelopment plan, recently presenting the local member for Willoughby, Gladys Berejiklian MP, a people’s petition comprising more than 14,000 signatories. Ms Berejiklian will be required to table the ‘people’s petition’ for ‘urgent debate’ in…

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GLOBALHealthPR announces its first annual International Healthcare Social Media Summit

By Team VIVA! | May 5, 2011

Communications specialists across the globe demonstrate how evaluating the digital conversation with smart listening leads to improved health communications GLOBALHealthPR, the largest independent public relations organisation dedicated exclusively to health and medical communications worldwide, announced today the organisation’s first International Healthcare Social Media Summit (IHSMS), set for May 18, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The event…

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Staff uniting to combat ‘bed block bedlam’ at RNSH

By VIVA! Communications | March 16, 2011

The 350-strong membership of the Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) Medical Staff Council (MSC) convened an extraordinary staff meeting today (Wednesday, March 16) to oppose the New South Wales government’s grossly under-funded and exceedingly flawed hospital redevelopment plans. With the NSW election now only 10 days away, the MSC held a staff meeting that attracted…

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