Patient-centred healthcare, social media and the internet: the perfect storm?
Open Access
- 1 February 2013
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by BMJ in BMJ Quality & Safety
- Vol. 22 (3), 183-186
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001744
Abstract
At the same time, social media in particular and the internet more broadly are widely recognised as having produced huge effects across societies. For example, few would have predicted the Arab Spring, yet it was clearly enabled by media such as Facebook and Twitter. Now these technologies are beginning to pervade the healthcare space, just as they have so many others. But what will their effects be?Keywords
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