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5 reasons why women are a driving force in health care social media

How hospitals can balance social media engagement, patient privacy

While many companies are using social media to promote their brand or business, it can be a trickier challenge for those in the healthcare industry.

How to Engage With Patients on Social Media

As individuals spend more and more time online – interacting virtually, conducting transactions and seeking insights – the web emerges as the greatest stage for human interaction.

5 Social Media Tips For Medical Doctors

5 Social Media Tips For Medical Doctors Social media can feel like an overwhelming addition to maintaining a professional image as a medical doctor. Not only are you trying to keep up with the latest training and medical technology, but you need to learn how social media can keep your medical practice up and running at the same time<br>As a practice owner, you need to learn to delegate to other people if you think that adding social media is going to be…

How Nurses Should Be Using Social Media

Thanks to a technologically advanced society and easy access to digital sources of communication, social media is becoming an increasingly effective, wide-ranging tool for nurses. However, with this resource comes great responsibility. As nurses navigate social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs and public forums, there is a dangerously thin line between professional and personal online etiquette. Health care employees must maintain patient confidentiality and privacy at…

How to Use Social Media and Be HIPAA Compliant

Learn how healthcare organizations can use social media and still be HIPAA compliant. Visit VONT for the complete post.

How Physicians Can Harness Social Media

In an era when any patient can go online to research a doctor, it is vital that doctors proactively manage their online presence. Doctors can adopt social me...

Top 10 Health Care Social Media Tips

Health care social media - What you need to know as a health care provider. A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices.

How to maintain physician professionalism in social media

Promote the humanistic values identified as congruent with medical professionalism. Be honest, forthright, helpful, and compassionate.

How Should You Handle Social Media Trolls?

One of the questions put most frequently to me when I speak to healthcare professionals is how to handle trolling on social media. It’s an important question. How do you decide when to ban so…

Why is Social Media Important to my Medical Practice?

Don't let the social media horror stories prevent you from creating an amazing social media presence for your practice. Learn more about how to properly create profiles and get your practice even more noticed online today!

Medical residents: Tips to keep a clean social media profile

By now, it’s common knowledge that people should be careful about what they post to social media sites — especially job seekers.

What social media platform should doctors use first?

My recommendations for your first social media platform: LinkedIn or Doximity. Better yet, do both.

How Social Media Usage Affects Doctor To Patient Relationships

Social media has made a significant impact on every aspect of our lives. Healthcare is no exception. The increasing usage of social networks among both practitioners and patients has proven to cast a positive impact on the overall healthcare quality.

Paging Dr. Digital: How to get doctors on social media

Most doctors don’t use Facebook or Twitter professionally. A university asks: Should they?

5 reasons why physicians should use social media professionally

If your social media use is limited to watching the latest cat videos making the rounds, consider this advice on what your physician career could be missing.

How social media has changed my medical practice

The unexpected consequence was how much social media has changed my medical practice, and me.