Gastroenterologist Dr. Austin Chiang has about a decade of experience as a physician influencer on social media. During a conference in Chicago, he encouraged more providers to share their expertise on social media. By having a presence on these platforms, healthcare professionals demonstrate their commitment to meeting patients where they are, he said.

Social media should play a bigger part in public health crisis planning, according to a recent analysis. The analysis explored the crucial role that Twitter and other social media platforms played when the app for Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre system crashed earlier this month in the U.K.

PeerCapsule, a Phoenix-based company developing a collaboration platform for professional healthcare associations, recently received funding from AWS’ accelerator for early-stage startups led by founders from underrepresented groups. The startup will use the money to scale its platform and help build tools to enable faster clinical research.

“Most Q&As are happening on Twitter. If you’re not doing social listening you’re losing fresh insights into things like disease states.” That was just one of the observations in a new report on how pharma and other life science companies are working with healthcare providers and adapting to improve the patient experience.

“Most Q&As are happening on Twitter. If you’re not doing social listening you’re losing fresh insights into things like disease states.” That was just one of the observations in a new report on how pharma and other life science companies are working with healthcare providers and adapting to improve the patient experience.

Bots may have played a significant role in circulating misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found that Facebook posts in groups most affected by bots were more than twice as likely to misstate the results of a study about masks or share conspiracies. 

Our weekly cartoon shows people discovering the true value of social media during Covid-19.

In a letter addressed to the CEOs of Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon, Google, Youtube and Twitter, AMA executive vice president CEO James Madara wrote about the medical community’s concern about the spread of misinformation on vaccines.

Who is more subject to the peer pressure to be perceived as happy, cool and thriving and who isn’t?  The variables that answer this question would probably tell us a lot about how to properly target mental health treatment for this population.

At its F8 conference, the social media giant announced a new capability that enables users in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan to find nearby opportunities to donate blood.

How do the big five health insurers — Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare — utilize social media? And which ones do the general public view in the most positive light?

The new WEGO Health Experts is meant to extend the Boston-based company’s reach beyond pharma and life sciences.

Gerald “Jerry” Matczak of Eli Lilly & Co. was a rare breed in the pharmaceutical world, someone who not only embraced social media, but also listened to activist patients.

@AltHHS describes itself as “Unofficial and unaffiliated resistance account by concerned scientists for humanity.”

As the Affordable Care Act is coming under attack by the new Republican-controlled Congress and incoming Trump administration, Slavitt, acting administrator of CMS, isn’t being shy online.

When he wasn’t taking part in high-powered panel at the StartUp Health Festival in San Francisco or getting a shout-out from President-elect Donald Trump during Trump’s Wednesday news conference, Dr. Toby Cosgrove was in serious damage-control mode back home.

The campaign’s business objective is to put HealthSparq at the forefront of the patient engagement discussion and provide “a brand lift,” said Burt Rosen, vice president and chief marketing officer for the company.

The average cost of recruiting a trial subject via the targeted Facebook ads was $35, 96 percent less than the $800-per-person average through other means for the Michael J. Fox Foundation study.

So what does that mean for healthcare? Probably not much in the near term, but there could be some interesting ideas coming in the future.

The videos are not peer-reviewed before posting. Instead, GIBLIB is relying on the collective wisdom of physicians to determine which videos to prominently feature.

Texas Children’s Hospital’s 13 social media channels include six different Facebook pages, two Twitter accounts, plus YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest. Social Media Specialist Cara Lovan shares her strategy for dealing with both happy and angry people.

Among the charges was that Yorkville Endoscopy Medical Director Dr. Lawrence Cohen took a selfie with Rivers while she was under anesthesia.

According to the report, from McKinsey & Co., Google and the Wharton School, one of every 20 Google searches today is for health information. That’s grown 15 percent a year since 2011.

Any Messenger user can ask health questions to HealthTap’s 100,000 U.S. physicians in 141 specialties and get quick answers from whichever doctors happen to see a post.