How do we know that social media is important to health care?
I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?
39% of U.S. adults provide care for a loved one, up from 30% in 2010, and many navigate health care with the help of technology
35% of U.S. adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition; of these, half followed up with a visit to a medical professional.
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.
Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.
The online conversation about health is being driven forward by two forces: 1) the availability of social tools and 2) the motivation, especially among people living with chronic conditions, to connect with each other.
Is “peer-to-peer healthcare” an idea whose time has come? Evidence and recent examples.
Macro and micro health news and how the two combined to create one great story about online communities.
A summary of recent research related to cancer and the internet.
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