{"id":2644,"date":"2009-06-14T08:04:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T13:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/archives\/2009\/06\/social-healthcare-medicine-in-the-age-of-twitter.html"},"modified":"2009-06-14T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T13:04:37","slug":"social-healthcare-medicine-in-the-age-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/06\/social-healthcare-medicine-in-the-age-of-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Social Healthcare: &#8220;Medicine in the Age of Twitter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physician Pauline Chen writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/11\/health\/11chen.html?_r=3\">&#8220;Medicine in the Age of Twitter&#8221;<\/a> for the New York <i>Times.<\/i> The article suggests the need for our upcoming peer-reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kk.org\/quantifiedself\/2009\/06\/journal-of-participatory-medic.php\">Journal of Participatory Medicine:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a quick scan through peer-reviewed journals reveals only a handful of articles, and no evidence-based guidelines, to guide doctors on the use of social media. It is unclear whether such engagement adds to or detracts from a therapeutic patient-doctor relationship, and clinicians are unsure about what constitutes good standards of care and professional responsibility on these platforms. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More physicians and hospital are using, or thinking about using, social media, such as Dr. Sean Khozin of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellohealth.com\/main\/index.html\">Hello Health,<\/a> a system that mixes office and online visits. He&#8217;s quoted in the <i>Times<\/i> article as saying \u201cthere are so many layers of bureaucracy between health care providers and patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can use social media to coordinate care with patients and with different specialists, all using the same platform. 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