… professional) makes these channels more influential on adoption decisions [13,15,18,21,22].
Current social networks in health care organizations are generally homophilous with strong …

… , largely because of the powerful and cost-effective communication tools it employs…
Web-based social media. Indeed, across the health care industry, from large hospital networks …

… Social status might also generate social pressures not typically noticed or experienced by
other groups. We will discuss how social network … be used through social network analysis to …

… In addition, this study determines that credible and popular users on social media take an
appropriate role in information sharing. These findings indicate that Chinese microblogging …

… Social network analysis is an approach to study the interactions and exchange … influence
the process of capacity building towards evidence-informed decision making. A social network …

… the “engagement” capacity of users in social networks, while we define the engagement as
the capacity of a user in interacting with other users of the social network. First, we should no…

… Healthcare social media consulting is a bubble economy at the moment. Social media is a
powerful … But most GPs and healthcare providers have little free time. In order to facilitate easy …

… Conclusions: Social media brings a new dimension to health care as it offers a medium to
be used by the public, … Social media is a powerful tool, which offers collaboration between …

… Their paper confirms that Health Online Social Networks support and empower users during
… experiences with Internet-based applications can be expected to influence outcomes which …

… platforms for healthcare information, and approximately 90% … healthcare information conveyed
on social media.2 Use of … influence patients’ perceptions, adherence and medical care.3–…