Social media challenges in e- medicine

A scientific seminar of  No. 15 department  on social media and to electronic medical was held  at the Institute of Information Technology.

Colleague of  the department Aytaj Isaeva delivered a report on "Social media in  e-medicine". She informed about  the role of social media in the development of medicine, types of social media, medical social networks,blogs, microblogs and others.

Speaking about the activities of medical specialists in social media, she noted that social media provides tools for exchanging information of medical professionals, carrying out  debates on health policy, observing health-related behaviors, communicating with patients and colleagues,  for training. Moreover,  it allows social media health care professionals  to get medical innovations, listen to lectures of experts, carry out  medical research, accurate diagnosis of patients and so on.

Reporter also informed  about the  activities of e-patients in social media, "patient 1.0" and "patient 2.0" concepts  and  gave information about the opportunities of social media .

“Social media is a foremost successful business in the field of e-medicine", A. Isaeva said. Capitalization of social media is possible  as a result of cooperation with pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment manufacturers, she noted.

 In the end, there was an exchange of views on the subject, many questions were answered.

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