User talk:Hara1212

Health Social Media
Health Social Media help users to create social media networks to connect with friends and family and more specific networks social networks focused exclusively on healthcare.

Within these communities, providers find medical advice and best-practices, job openings and career tips, research and product information, as well as the opportunity to securely communicate with peers. Patient-focused networks, often built around a particular condition or disease, give individuals and their families supportive communities where they receive comfort, insights, and potential leads on new treatments.

Healthcare social networks also address the industry's privacy and security mandates. The data mining practices of sites like Facebook and Twitter make some patients and providers leery of posting questions or comments. And while many healthcare organizations use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other social tools to communicate with constituents, individuals often worry about posting information in the wrong place. By sharing data on specialized sites -- especially those that plainly detail their security and privacy policies -- healthcare professionals and other users can feel safer about expressing their thoughts.

Healthcare professionals are increasingly turning to specialized online communities to seek advice, advance their careers, or look for new jobs. In 2011, 31% used social media for job searching, up from 21% the prior year, according to AMN Healthcare's "2013 Survey of Social Media and Mobile Usage by Healthcare Professionals." The report also revealed that 48% used these sites for professional networking in 2011, compared with 37% in 2010.

There are several types of Communities like:
 * Profile-based Communities (e.g. Caringbridge, Webicina, ohanet)
 * Group-based Communities (e.g. healthfulchat, HealthTap, Patientslikeme)
 * Health Professionals Communities
 * Patients Communities (e.g. Healthline, webmd)

A community that combines most of the above is the medme a human network of medical content for plain users and health professionals providing Forums, chat rooms, Groups, search engines (geo engine and criteria engine), etc.

--Hara1212 (talk) 18:47, 13 December 2014 (UTC)