The Leading Physicians of The World

Many social media tools are available for health care professionals (HCPs), including social networking platforms, blogs, microblogs, wikis, media-sharing sites, and virtual reality and gaming environments.These tools can be used to improve or enhance professional networking and education, organizational promotion, patient care, patient education, and public health programs.  Social media provide HCPs with tools to share information, to debate health care policy and practice issues, to promote health behaviors, to engage with the public, and to educate and interact with patients, caregivers, students, and colleagues. HCPs can use social media to potentially improve health outcomes, develop a professional network, increase personal awareness of news and discoveries, motivate patients, and provide health information to the community. Physicians most often join online communities where they can read news articles, listen to experts, research medical developments, cons...

Social media has already been used by many businesses and individuals to stay connected, market products and services, and of course to communicate. As social media platforms evolve and become a better way to reach consumers, healthcare professionals are not left behind. They are also using social media to find new and effective ways to manage their work. Social Media and Healthcare Evolution of social media platform s has been driven by the growing demand for transparency. After a survey, 1229 hospitals said they are using social media. The survey by Element.org found that:          More than 149 hospitals in the U.S use blogs and micro-blogs forms of social media           946 hospitals use four squire accounts ( 4S )           566 hospitals use LinkedIn accounts ( in )           814 hospitals use twitter accounts           1068 hospitals use...