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Social media and health care reform

Sherrilynne Starkie

In the era of health care reform, hospitals need to figure out how to do more and more, with less. Social media can play an important role in patient care, patient support, health research, education, training, advocacy, and more. Can social media help ease the way to health care reform?

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

Here are three social media obstacles health care providers face and the underlying opportunities each present. Obstacle: Understandably, many health care professionals may avoid using social media for fear of violating regulations like HIPPA.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. Here are three social media obstacles health care providers face and the underlying opportunities each present. This originally ran on Nov. Your child has come down with a rasping cough.

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

Hootsuite

They clarify what types of information are protected: Health information: “Relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual.”

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Importance of Social Media Training in Healthcare Industry

Social Media Marketing

These experts understand healthcare industry can play an important role on social media by educating people about various diseases and treatment. By enhancing social media skills, health care provider can understand patients’ concern by monitoring and tracking, social media forums, blogs and other digital sources.

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Video Conferencing Devices to Grow Six Times by 2025

The Realtime Report

As businesses and educational institutions prepare for the return to work, meeting rooms and classrooms will see heavy technology investments to support hybrid work and learning. High-growth sectors include health care, education, government, retail, and manufacturing, among others. million units.

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Corporate America steps up to deal with #COVID-19

Janet Fouts

Here are a few of the many companies who have stepped up to care for and protect their teams, customers and vendors. Zoom is offering free services and technical support to nonprofits, medical institutions, and NGOs as well as schools for online education. Comcast and T-Mobile upgraded everyone to unlimited data for the next 90 days.

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