Patients want to explore more holistic options and are becoming more educated and interested in their own health. However, this trend of growing trust in unchecked online health advice often introduces more risk to patients than help.
Acing the interview requires embracing technology, understanding digital trends, and enhancing patient relationship strategies.
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
During a session at CES 2024, a Google exec shared several changes the company has made through YouTube to protect children and teens.
WebMD Ignite — the company’s division that offers tech solutions to providers and health plans — teamed up with healthcare privacy platform Freshpaint. Through the partnership, WebMD Ignite is seeking to help its customers — which include organizations such as Providence, Trinity Health, Advocate Aurora, VillageMD and Centene — use web tracking technology to grow their businesses while staying clear of data privacy risks.
Gastroenterologist Dr. Austin Chiang has about a decade of experience as a physician influencer on social media. During a conference in Chicago, he encouraged more providers to share their expertise on social media. By having a presence on these platforms, healthcare professionals demonstrate their commitment to meeting patients where they are, he said.
Social media should play a bigger part in public health crisis planning, according to a recent analysis. The analysis explored the crucial role that Twitter and other social media platforms played when the app for Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre system crashed earlier this month in the U.K.
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
PeerCapsule, a Phoenix-based company developing a collaboration platform for professional healthcare associations, recently received funding from AWS' accelerator for early-stage startups led by founders from underrepresented groups. The startup will use the money to scale its platform and help build tools to enable faster clinical research.
“Most Q&As are happening on Twitter. If you’re not doing social listening you’re losing fresh insights into things like disease states." That was just one of the observations in a new report on how pharma and other life science companies are working with healthcare providers and adapting to improve the patient experience.
“Most Q&As are happening on Twitter. If you’re not doing social listening you’re losing fresh insights into things like disease states." That was just one of the observations in a new report on how pharma and other life science companies are working with healthcare providers and adapting to improve the patient experience.
Bots may have played a significant role in circulating misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found that Facebook posts in groups most affected by bots were more than twice as likely to misstate the results of a study about masks or share conspiracies.
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
Our weekly cartoon shows people discovering the true value of social media during Covid-19.
In a letter addressed to the CEOs of Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon, Google, Youtube and Twitter, AMA executive vice president CEO James Madara wrote about the medical community's concern about the spread of misinformation on vaccines.
Who is more subject to the peer pressure to be perceived as happy, cool and thriving and who isn’t? The variables that answer this question would probably tell us a lot about how to properly target mental health treatment for this population.
At its F8 conference, the social media giant announced a new capability that enables users in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan to find nearby opportunities to donate blood.
How do the big five health insurers — Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare — utilize social media? And which ones do the general public view in the most positive light?