Social media in health care

Author

Brenda ESCHENBRENNER
Fiona Fui-hoon NAH, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

8-2015

Abstract

To identify existing streams of research and develop an agenda for future research, we reviewed and synthesized the existing literature relevant to social media in health care. In particular, our review encompassed two themes - Patient Use of Social Media and Healthcare Organization/Professional Use. Within these overarching themes, we focused on four subthemes (i.e., two under each main theme): community/public health and patient support/use, as well as medical litigation & compliance risk and health education & information sharing. From this review, we have also proposed future research topics and questions to further cultivate this salubrious research domain.

Keywords

Social media, Health care, Patient social media use, Healthcare organization social media use

Discipline

Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces | Medicine and Health Sciences

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Proceedings of 17th Human-Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII 2015) : Los Angeles, California, USA, August 2-7

Volume

9191

First Page

76

Last Page

85

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Los Angeles, California

Citation

ESCHENBRENNER, Brenda and NAH, Fiona Fui-hoon. Social media in health care. (2015). Proceedings of 17th Human-Computer Interaction International Conference (HCII 2015) : Los Angeles, California, USA, August 2-7. 9191, 76-85.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9627