Exploring Social Media in Health Care: Beyond Its Pervasiveness

Social media is everywhere. Throughout health care, social media profiles are rapidly proliferating for both organizations and individual providers. The number of platforms that host social media profiles seems to be multiplying at a similar rate. Accordingly, an increasing number of scholars have written about the overall increased adoption of social media among health care professionals, patients, and patient advocacy groups. Yet despite its growing pervasiveness, few scholarly analyses have investigated the ways in which social media may ultimately influence how we actually function as physicians on a day-to-day basis.
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Introduction to the special issue Source Type: research