Abstract
Social Media in Healthcare
Highlights
The Internet provides health information ranging from factsheet to videos on how to perform a heart transplant [1]
Social media is consumer-generated media that covers a variety of new sources of online information, created, and used by consumers with the intent on sharing information with others
APPLICATIONS Social media have been rapidly adopted as a means of providing medical care, research, and education
Summary
The Internet provides health information ranging from factsheet (on health-related information) to videos on how to perform a heart transplant [1]. Media sharing sites comprise social media tools that are optimized for viewing and sharing They are great resources for education, community building, and marketing, research. Social media provide healthcare professionals with tools to share information, to promote health behaviors, and to educate and interact with patients, caregivers, students, and colleagues. Social media ( called Web 2.0) refers to Internetbased and mobile-based tools that allow individuals to communicate and share ideas, personal messages, and images. Social media are computer-mediated communication tools that enable users to share and consume content through varied modalities such as text, image, and video [3]. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests. The majority of those who use social networking sites use them to form self-aggregated
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