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How do we know that social media is important to health care?

October 21, 2013 By Susannah Fox 28 Comments

Update: the videos are up — thanks, @EinsteinMed! On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a regular basis. Asking them, therefore, to spend a half-day […]

Filed Under: demographics, net-friendly docs, patient networks, pt/doc co-care, social media, trends & principles Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, KevinMD, medical education, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

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