Social Media, Media and Coverage

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Social media makes it considerably more likely that patients learn about innovative and unproven therapies.  The mobilizing power of social networking means that unprecedented pressures can be applied on politicians and research funders to expand access to procedures for which there is little scientific support.  It allows patients a greater platform to challenge health care policies, research priorities and rulings.  Decision makers need to better engage the public, and not necessarily through social media, within the governance of the healthcare system and to be better able to justify decisions.  Health services and policy researchers need to develop better tools for analyzing social media (particularly trends in health conversations).

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