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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. Regardless of generation, most health care professionals express concerns about not allowing social media usage to diminish the time they have to be available for in-person patient conversations. So…I’m curious.

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Health Care Needs Digital Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

For instance, that rash of Twitter users doing the Popeye pose is part of the 2015 #StrongArmSelfie campaign — an effort to raise awareness for colorectal cancer screening. The #StrongArmSelfie hashtag has been used more than 11,000 times across social platforms (3,600+ on Twitter & 6,900 engagements on related posts on Facebook).

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Public Disclosure on Twitter of Identifiable Patient Information by Health Professionals

Socialmedia.biz

As health care professionals (HCPs) navigate the increasingly complex world of social media, concerns have arisen regarding questions of ethics and professionalism and how the use of social media fits within the social contract between the medical.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? Here are three social media obstacles health care providers face and the underlying opportunities each present. Obstacle : Social media adds one more thing to a doctor’s already busy schedule.

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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. But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? This originally ran on Nov. Your child has come down with a rasping cough.

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Obamacare And Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) health insurance exchanges have opened and social media is being used to both promote and debate the new law. GetCovered Obamacare Square: Health Care Tries to Go Viral. What Social Media Can Teach Us About The Affordable Care Act (Or Is It Obamacare?).

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Corporate America steps up to deal with #COVID-19

Janet Fouts

They’ll be partners with the advocacy group National Health Care for the Homeless Council to fund at least four housing activist groups in California, Seattle, and Portland, Ore. Twitter sent everyone home globally and will cover the wages of contractors and hourly workers who are not able to work from home.

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