#Science: The Potential and the Challenges of Utilizing Social Media and Other Electronic Communication Platforms in Health Care.

Creator(s)

Violette Gijsen
Michele H. Maddux, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Adam Lavertu
Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Nilam Ram
Byron Reeves
Thomas Robinson
Victoria Ziesenitz
Valentina Shakhnovich, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Russ Altman

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2020

Identifier

DOI: 10.1111/cts.12687; PMCID: PMC6951453

Abstract

Electronic communication is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, as evidenced by its widespread and rapidly growing use. In medicine, however, it remains a novel approach to reach out to patients. Yet, they have the potential for further improving current health care. Electronic platforms could support therapy adherence and communication between physicians and patients. The power of social media as well as other electronic devices can improve adherence as evidenced by the development of the app bant. Additionally, systemic analysis of social media content by Screenome can identify health events not always captured by regular health care. By better identifying these healthcare events we can improve our current healthcare system as we will be able to better tailor to the patients' needs. All these techniques are a valuable component of modern health care and will help us into the future of increasingly digital health care.

Journal Title

Clin Transl Sci

Volume

13

Issue

1

First Page

26

Last Page

30

Comments

Grant support

• Pennsylvania State University Colleges of Health & Human Development and Information Science & Technology
• Knight Foundation
• Stanford University Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND)
• Stanford University Cyber Social Initiative
• Stanford Child Health Research Institute

• DGE-1656518/National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• T32 LM012409/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

Publisher's Link: https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cts.12687

Recommended Citation

Gijsen V, Maddux M, Lavertu A, et al. #Science: The Potential and the Challenges of Utilizing Social Media and Other Electronic Communication Platforms in Health Care. Clin Transl Sci. 2020;13(1):26-30. doi:10.1111/cts.12687