“While many healthcare professionals have limited their use of Twitter to social communication or marketing, it can be used for clinical purposes as well, suggests a new article appearing in a journal.
The article, which appears in Telemedicine and e-Health, argues that there are a multitude of ways Twitter can be used to collect and disseminate health information. The article proposes 10 specific examples, including biomedical device data capture and reporting; diabetes management; drug safety alerts from the FDA; post-discharge consultations and follow-up and shift-bidding for health workers.”
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Anne Zieger, FierceHealthIT, 31 August 2009
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