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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional. Doctors that I have discussed social media with have a broad range of opinions about whether they should engage with their patients online. Do they not understand how the various social media channels work? –Sean.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

Attending the session “A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network“ at SxSW last year really opened my eyes to the social media obstacles healthcare professionals face. But more than anything, I was inspired by the overwhelming opportunities social media presents for transforming healthcare.

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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. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. This originally ran on Nov.

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. This movement, known as Health 2.0,

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Healthcare Social Media Policy: Examples + Free Template

Hootsuite

That’s why we put together this guide to healthcare social media policies, including examples and templates to help you create your own. While you’re here, jump into our free webinar on Social Media in Health Care: Stories from the Front Lines. Confidentiality, privacy, & security considerations.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. You have the right to know who you are helping and exactly what your help will do for them.