Social media and health care

Healthcare providers can use the internet and social media to

• Improve their patients’ experience

• Communicate with their patients

• Diagnose diseases

• chat with patients

Looking at medical conditions online can cause you to worry as you might start to think you have the condition being described

• True

• False

Patients can use the internet and social media to

• Compare healthcare providers

• find cure for their disease

• promote medications

being on social media is a risk that could allow others to hack your personal information

• True

• False

one advantage of social media is that ...

• waste your time

• can give you wrong medical information

• allow people to share their experience with a certain disease

• help to promote health care