Social media and your practice: navigating the surgeon-patient relationship

McLawhorn, Alexander S.; Martino, Ivan De; Fehring, Keith A.; Sculco, Peter K.

doi:10.1007/s12178-016-9376-1

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“…Digital health is a tool, which can improve communication in care and, if supported by social media, it can also induce more trust from the patients and make them more engaged in their own care. There are, however, numerous concerns when it comes to security, efficiency, and misinterpreting information and data [ 28 – 30 ].…”

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Digitally engaged physicians about the digital health transition

2020

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Background Digitalisation affects 90% of healthcare. Digital health, however, does not only refer to technological transformation but also has considerable cultural and social consequences. It fundamentally reshapes the roles of physicians and patients, as well as their relationship. Moreover, from the second half of the 20th century, the growing number of chronic patients and the increase in life expectancy have posed new challenges to the medical workforce. Objectives To explore the digitally engaged physician's knowledge and attitudes towards digital health technologies and the transformation of the doctor-patient relationship. Methods A qualitative interview study analysed with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The study is based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 11 digitally engaged physicians from 9 countries. We identified four main themes emerging from e-physicians' responses and experience: 1) the past: intentions and experiences of change, 2) the present: the role of digital health and technology in the medical practice and their everyday challenges, 3) the present: the practical and ideal physician-patient relationship, and 4) the future: skills and competencies needed for working with e-patients and visions about the future of the medical practice. Results The interviewed physicians state that digital health solutions could create a deeper doctorpatient relationship: knowledgeable patients are a huge help in the joint work effort and technology is the main tool for creating a more involved and responsible patient. Medical professionals in the future might rather get a role as a translator between technical data and the patient; as a guide in the jungle of digital health. However, the interviewed physicians also noted that digital transition today is more beneficial to patients than to their doctors.

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Digitally engaged physicians about the digital health transition

2020

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“…Social media is recognized as a tool that can improve communication between healthcare providers and their patients (14). Healthcare processes supported by social media can also create increased trust (8), and can allow patients to become more active participants in their own care (14). However, this two-way involvement should not give undue credence to the accuracy of information delivered by the patients.…”

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Social Media and the Orthopaedic Surgeon: a Mixed Methods Study

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Introduction: Social media continues to grow in size, and popularity, The prevalence of social networking continues to develop and will likely play an increasing role in all aspects of society and business, including in healthcare services. This rapid growth has directly influenced healthcare professionals in the clinical setting. Aim: To assess the perceptions and usage of SM (SM) by OSs (OS) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and its impact on their profession, and to evaluate their level of awareness of the potential risks on their practice. Methods: Quantitative: A cross-sectional survey was distributed to practicing OSs in 15 healthcare centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (μ=323) using convenience sampling. Data was analyzed using SPSS. Qualitative: Eight OSs were recruited by purposive and snowball sampling and interviewed using a semi-structured approach. Data was analyzed using thematic content analysis. Results: The Quantitative survey revealed that 165 OSs participated (RR=51%). OSs who use SM partly or entirely for professional purposes represent 53.7% (n=87). The remaining OSs were excluded. Virtually 90% were 40 years old or younger. Residents were less likely to reply to medical questions on SM (p=0.035). It was found that 74.7% of OSs use SM daily. The most commonly used platform was Twitter (75.9%), with Instagram and Snapchat being significantly more used by younger OSs (p= 0.013 and 0.003, respectively). The results of the Qualitative interviews revealed four themes: Guidelines, Ethics and Professionalism; Usage and Perceptions; Doctor-Patient Relationship; Quality of Online Content. Conclusion: OSs’ perceptions and usage were generally cautious. The major concerns were patient confidentiality, along with ethical and legal consequences. The need to contribute to quality online content was evident. Lack of formal guidelines was a continuous theme. The development of national guidelines on SM use in the orthopaedic profession is recommended.

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“…In the same context, the best known examples of social network sites, with Facebook in the forefront, present the more employed frameworks for health information searching according to the same study. Furthermore, some research efforts have proved the interactive aspect of VHCs, in terms of the creation of medical issues, instructions, and details, trying to regroup all healthcare actors online . The fact that social networks help to hold up both healthcare consumers and givers to interchange opinions, details, and even facts explains the positive evolution of subscriber amount that are interested in finding health needs in terms of knowledge.…”

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Medical social network content analysis for medical image retrieval purpose

Ayadi¹,

Bouslimi²,

Akaichi

2019

Softw Pract Exp

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Background and objective: Medical social networking platforms provide virtual spaces ensuring the interaction between different healthcare participants. As a part of the exchange, these spaces allow subscribers to upload medical images, describing different medical cases for an analysis or an interpretation proposal. Facing this expected huge amount of uploaded images generated daily, it is needed to engage new mechanisms to effectively deal with this circumstance, for enhancing the search function process of medical images, based on what is uploaded. To overcome this issue, setting up of images visual searching based on a content-based medical image retrieval scheme is the solution.More clearly, such mechanism will help and motivate medical social networking subscribers to find visually similar stored images.Methods: To ensure this task, the development of this mechanism, technically, is based mainly on a fusion of three visual features, which offers a flexible and more precision. It is reinforced by a weighted distance approach through attributing weights for feature vectors to scale up the performance. Indeed, the displayed results of this system can be updated based on user's intention by a user interactive feedback mechanism to indicate the truly relevant images. Results: We provide the theoretical performance of our scheme. Extensive experiments were conducted on a categorically classified collection containing 500 images. We conduct a practical evaluation on this dataset classes, putting returned results in a comparative study with other models results, existing in the literature. Conclusions:The proposed scheme preserves the efficiency of the search task. As theoretically and experimentally established, our scheme offers an effective image retrieval model that can support different subscribers' expectations.The relevance feedback mechanism can keep the dynamism of the system, thus offering a continuous searching result evolution. Experimentation outcomes indicate better findings compared with the other models.

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Social media and your practice: navigating the surgeon-patient relationship

Cited by 60 publications

References 24 publications

Digitally engaged physicians about the digital health transition

Digitally engaged physicians about the digital health transition

Social Media and the Orthopaedic Surgeon: a Mixed Methods Study

Medical social network content analysis for medical image retrieval purpose

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