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Social media has the potential to improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients — but it also creates ethical issues. Where should the line be drawn?

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An engaged patient is someone deeply involved in the scientific understanding of their disease, fully aware at all times of the entire spectrum of available therapeutic options. It requires a set of learning, cognitive and psycho-social tools that can only be acquired by conversing often with a real network of peers who are similarly involved in this complex endeavor. Because most of the communities where these activities take place are either hidden or hard to find (due to privacy concerns), the health care world is usually unaware of the depth of experience demonstrated daily by these groups.

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Jay Parkinson is a founder of Sherpaa, a Web site that operates like a virtual doctor’s office, examining patients by e-mail and text message.

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WebMD and Qualcomm Life are collaborating on a cloud offering that will allow consumers with mobile health monitoring devices to sync their data to the cloud, where it can be shared with healthcare providers.

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Social Media 2013: User Demographics For Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest And Instagram 

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

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