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- Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.
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- How popular and prevalent is social networking use in hospital settings?
- Which hospitals currently use the technology and how do they use it?
- How might the technology be used to aid in healthcare reform?
- In what way does the technology complicate patient privacy and HIPPA issues?
- What future applications of the technology might help resolve longstanding health care problems, such as treatment adherence and healthcare disparities?
- How has social networking changed the nature of the patient-provider relationship?
- What revisions to to health communication theory does the technology inspire?
- How can social networking improve evidence-based medicine, translational research and medical training?
- In what way can continuing medical education benefit from the technology?
- How might social networking software be deployed to facilitate integrated care?
- Level:
- Beginner
- Category:
- Blogging, Case Study, Government and Technology, Social Networking, Writing / Technical Writing
- Type:
- Solo
- Event:
- Interactive 2010
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