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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

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There’s no doubt about the fact that patients are becoming more vocal in the social media space. Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional. Do they not understand how the various social media channels work? Is it lack of time?

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

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HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is an overarching piece of legislation relating to health information in the United States. If you manage social media for a healthcare organization , you’ve come to the right place. What does HIPAA say about social media?

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

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Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Obamacare And Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

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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. Social Media Reaction: How We Tried To Get Covered Under Obamacare.

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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. If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Importance of Social Media Training in Healthcare Industry

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Social Media today has an undeniable power of spreading information, growing the business and developing community. Both individuals and businesses in healthcare industry use social media to stay connected, communicate and sometimes market their products and services. 26% of hospitals currently use social media.

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What’s Social’s True Value to Business? We Asked 2,162 Marketers.

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Download the full Social Transformation Report to find out how 2,162 marketers are using social media in their organizations in the wake of COVID-19. 3 unique ways social creates value for organizations. In 2020, we’ve seen how crucial it is for brands to use social media as a way to protect and strengthen relationships.

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