Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4 weeks: YouTube as a source of information on rhinosinusitis: 55% of videos contained no useful facts, 27% misleading info http://buff.ly/138NPPy How to Use Twitter for Public Health Monitoring? Only 5 to 20% of signals were "relevant" http://buff.ly/16gHswJ Social media increases dissemination of original articles - but the effect is lost after 1 year http://buff.ly/13JJwP2 Social Media Adoption by Local Health Departments in the US: 24% are on Facebook, 8% on Twitter http://buff.ly/16gI2KS A practical approach for content mining of tweets. http://buff.ly/18GgiFx Using social media to create a professional network between physician-trainees and ASN: no success at this time http://buff.ly/19lv2ZN Visualization of Dietary Behavior and Reasons for Eating Using Twitter http://buff.ly/13g9K7w Suffering by comparison: Twitter users' reactions to Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (article in journal Body Image) http://buff.ly/1dZ07jp Use of social-networking sites in medical education received positive feedback from learners (study) http://buff.ly/1dZ0gU0 14% of US/Canadian medical schools use social media for faculty development. http://buff.ly/1dZ0kmJ Study: Twitter was a credible information source during the time of disaster (2011 Tohoku Earthquake) http://buff.ly/1ebcedx Physicians' use of Twitter: 1.9% of tweets were 'unprofessional', 0.2% of tweets could viol...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Category: Journals (General) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: news