[…] 2 1 30 Facts & Statistics On Social Media And Healthcare https://getreferralmd.com/2017/01/30‐facts‐statistics‐on‐social‐media‐and‐healthcare/ 2 Goff, D. A., Kullar, R., & Newland, J. G. (2015). Review of Twitter for infectious diseases clinicians: Useful or a waste of time? Clinical Infectious Diseases, 60(10), 1533–1540. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ071 A few more stats 1 8 HS Docs Hospitals Public Patients Source: Jon Otter, 2016 https://reflectionsipc.com/2016/04/10/social‐media‐survey‐for‐healthcare‐professionls‐the‐results/ Unclear what "regularly" is Healthcare professionals 9 •Facebook : most adults already use (2bn!) •Twitter : more searchable (hashtags, keywords) •YouTube : under‐utilized in healthcare •Blogs: credible source of information •Forums: the original social media! •LinkedIn:the jury is out… 1 The HCP "Big 6" 10 1 http://www.bbc.com/ news/technology-40932487 Forums still exist… 11 •Or is it? – Information disseminators – Information consumers Social media is a two‐way street 12 • General public / patients –find information –discuss with others –form communities • Healthcare professionals – Public health educators: post information, reminders, PSA; online <mark...
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