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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)Health Twitter: An Exploration of Everyday Conversations about Health Background: Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site that allows users to disseminate information in 140 characters of text or less. The appeal of Twitter is derived in part from its ability to relay breaking news and trending topics to a diverse audience. Twitter technology supports a globally based online social network and is becoming a widely accepted channel of information transmission. Recent world events (i.e., U.S. presidential election, H1N1 outbreak) has demonstrated the utility o... Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)A Systematic Review of Published Accounts of Social Media Use within Nursing: Where Practice Outpaces Research Background The last decade has seen tremendous growth in the use of communication technology within healthcare. Along with the rise of various eHealth technologies during the early 2000s, the recent increased prevalence of socially-driven Internet technology (social media) has begun to impact the nursing profession in a number of salient fashions. Nursing education and practice are two areas which have been influenced by the evolving communication modalities that social media technologies ca... Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)Ethical Issues in Socially Generated Online Information: A Multi-Professional Panel Discussion The rise of social media in recent years has generated a number of emerging ethical and privacy implications in healthcare, clinical education, and research settings. Within practice settings, the increased use of social platforms which were not designed to be health technologies is on the rise. Similarly, clinicians interacting with patients and consumers via these social platforms has been an emerging trend in specific areas of the health sector (e.g., in the domain of public health). Wi... Published WithThis user's work may be related to |
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