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What are the strengths of using social media in healthcare?
Social media provides a transparent channel that allows mass collaboration and participation as compared to other forms of communication and collaboration systems. Social media has also marked its influence on the healthcare sector. Healthcare sector is utilizing the potential of social media.
Strengths of using social media in healthcare:
1) Increased awareness about healthcare services that leads to finding new avenues and curing diseases that were earlier considered to be incurable
2) Promote wellness and preventive education programs.
3) Recruit new dents and vendors.
4) Connecting with the patients across continents with new avenues of diagnosis, as well as treating illnesses.
5) Connect patents with similar disability or illness with each other and providing better information about the treatment process. Maintain Better relationship with patients.
6. The accessibility increases rapidly and wide range of access achieved and it can gives awareness and education about specialty and experience.
7. Promoting of their own health care organizations like hospitals, health systems using social media.
8. It gives global networks so that it can quickly spread information and we found more progress towards the public health goals.