Friday, November 14, 2014

Social media and the future of medicine

 2014 Oct 31;7(10):423-6. doi: 10.4066/AMJ.2014.2230. eCollection 2014.

Social media and the future of medicine.

Author information

  • 1Collaborative Research Network, Federation University, Mt Helen, VIC, Australia.
  • 2School of Art + Design/ Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.

"Social media has the ability to creatively disrupt the mechanisms of information gathering, storage, use, and dissemination in medicine. But can medicine and social media converge to provide a health system that is fair, effective, caring, and sustainable? Can we deliver improved patient outcomes, decreased total costs and enhanced user experience?"

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