Most healthcare workers and facilities were caught unaware by the corona virus pandemic. Orthopedic surgeons who answer ER calls for acute extremity trauma weren’t exempted from this onslaught. After a short stint at the pandemic…
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Peer feedback among healthcare professionals on social media
Improving health outcomes and lowering cost of delivery hinge on a dynamic, actionable and consistent feedback system. Social media is an emerging platform for peer to peer feedback in healthcare. How healthcare professionals give or receive feedback over social media is a matter of preference. New skills are undoubtedly needed.
Twitter, Tweets and Tweet Chats for Better Healthcare | #SocMed4MDs
Twitter evolved from short bursts of trivial updates to a fast fun, learning and networking tool. For healthcare, Twitter turned out to be something much much more. And it may just save part of health care, 140 character at a time.
Patient Education via social media- what sticks and what’s (probably) fake….
Advocates has long championed social media as a tool for patient education in healthcare. Social media was taunted to increase meaningful patient engagements, an increase health practitioners’ and patient collaborations that would result to improvements…
Debunking fake health news on social media
Majority of adult Americans get their news from social media according to a recent 2016 Pew Research Center study. Roughly two thirds of Facebook users get their news on this social networking site, which translates to…