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7 Reasons Why Healthcare Should Embrace Twitter

Twitter turns seven today and to mark the occasion here are seven reasons why healthcare professionals should be on Twitter.

#1. You can build trust in and raise awareness of your healthcare messages

#2. Many medical journals  now use Twitter to release their latest content

#3. It’s easy to interact with established and potentials colleagues

#4. Medical conference tweets means you can virtually attend conferences

#5. Connect with healthcare journalists and mainstream media.

#6. Enhance the communication you have with patients and public

#7. Provide valuable context to the health stories being talked about online

 

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Twitter’s role in NHS reforms debate analysed

See on Scoop.itHealth Care Social Media Monitor

Twitter provided an important forum for quick and open discussion about NHS reforms, say researchers at Imperial College London.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The network allowed “conversations across barriers of hierarchy and profession” and “may have fostered discussion and collaboration between groups that rarely talk”, according to a study looking at over 120,000 tweets about the Health and Social Care Bill which was recently passed into law in England.

See on www3.imperial.ac.uk