Question

Social Media:

Social media is a leading resource for healthcare and patient information. This assignment two pages include the references no plagiarism. Please see below for the criteria for this paper.

The following criteria must be addressed in the assignment:

1. What are the strengths of using social media in healthcare?
2. What are the challenges of using social media in healthcare?
3. How does social media affect the relationship between patients and their healthcare providers?
4. Is social media a part of patient-centric care?
5. What are your personal thoughts about social media and its use in healthcare?

Answer 1

Social media is a public platform to share information , blogging , images and in health care system it will help to provide more information to the patient regarding the medicines, diseases .

STRENGTHS OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN HEALTHCARE

▪ It will help to share information and improve the health outcomes

▪Increase personal awareness of news and discoveries and it help to motivate patients .

▪ Provide community health information.

▪ Physicians have begun to develop an interest in interacting with patients online.

▪Easy access for patient about their health.

CHALLENGES OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN HEALTHCARE

▪ In health care system using social media have some of the challenges present that is violation of patient confidentiality and privacy of the patient.

▪Low quality or lack of reliability of online health information has been found to be major limitations of social media in healthcare .

▪Social media using on health care practises is occure distractions and interruption during the working time.

▪ misusing social media can lead to long lasting implications.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HEALTHCARE RELATIONSHIPS

Social media have a large impact on every aspects of lives . And also healthcare is no exception. The social media is help to maintain more interaction with patient. And providing a chance for selecting their own doctors. And it will help to improve patient knowledge about their conditions and treatments.

PATIENT CENTERED CARE

Social media is not exactly the patient centered care.but nowadays it stays for patient centered care. And it provide enormous benefits to patients at the same time maintaining the patient privacy is more important.

PERSONAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

I think it is a very good access for information and maintain contact with the loved ones. And it will help to update the current situations on the public. Social media is have great tool to interact with family and friends .

In health care facility the social media can use to provide information to the patient and family. And it will improve the patient and healthcare relationships.

Conclusion

The social media is increasingly utilized by both patients and healthcare professionals . It have more impact on patient educate themselve on a disease process and help to find hospitals, physicians . However little is known about quality of the content of the mulltiple online platforms patients have to communicate and it have benefits and drawbacks. but in case of social media usage is help for clinical education and patient health promotion but it have impact of violation of patients privacy .

Reference from "Bringing the social media revolution to health care " Book 1st edition