The term social media refer as websites or mobile applications in which people can share their thoughts or information in the form of contents, images or videos. People use these online sources to share their personal as well professional experiences, opinions about their health. Face book, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn are the best examples of social media where you can found health professionals who are ready to connect with patients and of caurse this media play a vital role connect the doctor and patient togater.:)but there are some social media platforms which are dedicate only doctors or health professionals like http://www.sermo.com/, and more. These social media platforms not only give medical solutions but also patients can interact with doctors online, can do openly and honest conversations, discuss their health problems as well treatments on daily basis without visiting them. The information on these platforms are provided by after deep and detail research. A lot of surveys conduct to get this information and reliable as much we can get form doctors personally. Some websites even providing online doctor’s virtual lounge. You can do live chat or even hire the doctors from any place of world. Some websites provide the facility of online fax so that patient can send or receive their reports easily and at low cost. Patients and doctors can create their profiles in these websites, so that they can get their personal online area which is known as member area or user area, where they can share their thoughts, problems and treatments. Doctors can manage their patients’ records separately and only they can access their particular area because that area is secured with unique id and password. Alongwith, patients also get contact with other patients where they can discuss their cases, treatments and suggest other doctors from where they can take second opinion.
These websites or social media platforms not only give personal benefits to doctors and patients but also provide some better business solutions like Medical Crowd Sourcing, Health Trackers, Administration Dashboard, Calendars etc.
Some of websites giving online shop where you can order your medicines and other accessories like http://www.curediva.com/, http://www.netmeds.com/.
Some most popular websites are below except above listed
In conclusion, social media is really playing a useful role in medical industry also as in other industries. But like other industries, we should be careful about the information we are getting from these social media platforms.
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