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Abstract

The purpose of this review paper is to explore the impacts of social media on healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients. This study found that healthcare organizations, clinicians and patients can benefit from the use of social media. For healthcare organizations, social media can be used primarily for community engagement activities such as fundraising, customer service and support, the provision of news and information, patient education, and advertising new services. The study also found that the most widely used social media venues for physicians were online communities where physicians can read news articles, listen to experts, research new medical developments, network, and communicate with colleagues regarding patient issues. Patients can benefit from the use of social media through education, obtaining information, networking, performing research, receiving support, goal setting, and tracking personal progress. Future research should further examine other financial, technological, informational, ethical, legal, and privacy issues surrounding the use of social media in healthcare.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Health IT applications geared toward patient-centered care actually do have a posiHealth IT applications geared toward patient-centered care actually do have a positive impact on patient outcomes, in an assessment of several hundred articles examining their effectiveness by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center. Researchers conducted the review, published this month, on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Farzad Mostashari and colleagues from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, lay out their "Three A’s" strategy to support consumer engagement through e-Health – access, action and attitudes.

 

 

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The simultaneous maturation of patient-centered healthcare, social media and the Internet has created what researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School are calling a "perfect storm" in healthcare with regard to how patients and organizations connect.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

The findings:
1. patients use social media for info and for sharing and connecting
2. patient experience would be easier if education and health information exist
3. health information is crucial for Rare Disease
4. patients want openness, transparency and inclusion from pharma

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

This course is part of Social Media Residency, a project of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media that provides in-depth, hands-on learning to promote effective application of social media tools for health-related purposes. Social Media 105 introduces you to 10 basic social media tool types that represent the range of functionality available in social media.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Mayo Clinic established its Center for Social Media in July 2010 (and subsequently the Social Media Health Network) as the next step in its social media progression. In this course Lee Aase, Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, describes Mayo’s century-long history of social networking and how it led to its 21st-century social media journey.

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

When (or if) medicine, the biological applied sciences, and artificial intelligence reach the point where diagnosis and treatment are as accurate, effective, and reliable as online banking or air travel, we may well find that stories of deep and trusting relationships with flawed and error-prone clinicians are a subject of humor and relegated to history books. Future generations may laugh at our reverence for a collaborative relationship with a skilled and empathic clinician, even as we laugh at the faith primitive societies placed in their shamans to predict and influence the weather, crops and their fortunes in battle.