Healthcare Communications & Social Media

Topics:

1. How can social media be incorporated well at healthcare related conferences? What works? What doesn’t?
2. How is SM being used to support professional HC communities? Which sites/communities use it well? Where can it be improved?
3. How do we encourage patients to use the plethora of digital/mobile health tools available?How do we know which are credible?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat.

Topics:

1. Are HC researchers on SM? Should they be? Why/not? Other than clinical trial recruitment, what will they get out of HC SM?
2. There’s telemedicine, but what are some other ways to incorporate video (live or not) in HC? And any risks when doing so?
3.  Should HCPs be evaluated for their online activity? Why/not? And how would you propose doing so?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat.

Topics:

1.  Is virtual reality (VR) like social media? Does VR have a role in health care? What are the implications?
2. Do we rely too much on search algorithms to find right info? What if algorithms do not show best (or correct) health info?
3.  if a HCP is not using SM, but wants to recommend SM resources to patients…how would they vet/find them?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat.

Topics:

1. What is health literacy, and how does it factor into SM usage in healthcare? Does it include understanding of health data?
2. Should patients be RX’d social media? Why or why not? And if so, when?
3. If someone is wrong on the Internet…what do you do? (And what is “wrong”?) What if you’re a HCP and person is a patient?

Don’t forget – if you’d like to submit a topic for a future #hcsm chat, you’re welcome to! Read the details on the different ways to submit a topic for a #hcsm chat.