Social media can be used in multiple ways.But there are
both advantages and disadvantages in it.
4 important ways social media can be used :
- In Health care point of view social media can be used
to promote the technology developed in terms of care provided in
the hospitals that is regarding the new equipments and methods used
in the hospitals.
- This also can be used to inform people regarding the
safety measures to be followed in times of pandemic such as
Covid-19.Also to share the statistics related to the
pandemic.
- Social media can be used in case any criticality of the
situations where Government involvement is needed to solve the
issues.
- It can also be used to report any medico legal
issues.
Four dangers of social media are :
- Privacy of the patients can be disturbed and this
becomes breach
- Social media depicts the situations in wrong
perspectives.
- Social media is dangerous in exploiting hospital fame
in some conditions .
- Social media will not have any sympathy or empathy that
may jeep both hospital and patients in critical
situations.