What do clinicians new to the world of digital really want to know about social media?
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Articles
Health information online: how to tell the trash from the truth
“Learn the ‘Three D’s’ of identifying if health or cardiac info is truth or trash.”
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Dispelling five myths of social media use in the NHS
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I have always fancied myself as a myth slayer, so I thought it was about time I tried to slay some of the myths surrounding the use of social media within the
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS USE IN HEALTH PROMOTION
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Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication
Social media brings a new dimension to health care, offering a platform used by the public, patients, and health professionals to communicate about health issues with the possibility of potentially improving health outcomes. Although there are benefits to using social media for health communication, the information needs to be monitored for quality and reliability, and the users’ confidentiality and privacy need to be maintained. Social media is a powerful tool that offers collaboration between users and a social interaction mechanism for a range of individuals. With increasing use of social media, there will be further opportunities in health care. Research into the application of social media for health communication purposes is an expanding area because increasing general use of social media necessitates that health communication researchers match the pace of development. Further robust research is required to establish whether social media improves health communication practices in both the short and long terms.
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Medical students and why their digital footprints matter
The #hcsmca Twitter waves were buzzing when Dr. Rajiv Singal (@DrRKSingal) assumed the moderator’s seat on Wednesday April 24th for our evening chat.
Social Media Management and the Myth that “Anyone Can Do It” | Social Media Today
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Whilst awareness is at an all time high, many businesses wrongly regard social media as ‘easy’ to do, after all, what skill does it take to make a status update?
Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:
Great points in this article which reinforces something I say repeatedly – social media is not an additional add-on that anyone can do – it is not something that should be done in isolation. Social media needs to be part of an integrated communications strategy underpinned by solid marketing and public relations foundations.
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Data researchers use Facebook likes to gauge public health
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A new study finds that Facebook likes and interest data could be used to map obesity prevalence.
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Re-engineering the Data Stream from Meetings to Medical Practices
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Why we need to upgrade how information flows from medical conferences to physicians’ practices.
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Social Media Use in Medical Education
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The authors conducted a systematic review of the published literature on social media use in medical education to answer two questions: (1) How have interventions using social media tools affected outcomes of satisfaction, knowledge, attitudes, and skills for physicians and physicians-in-training? and (2) What challenges and opportunities specific to social media have educators encountered in implementing these interventions?
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