Use of Smartphones and Social Media in Healthcare
Use of Smartphones and Social Media in Healthcare
The growth of tablets, mobile apps, and smartphones is a significant advancement in everyday life and business globally including in health and healthcare, specifically, social apps that offer collaboration and learning opportunities to highly engaged health professionals and peer-to-peer encouragement and health education for the general public (Kamel et al., 2014). Practical application of smartphones and social media is part of how medical practitioners and patients communicate in the 21st century. However, given the speed with which the volume of activity has grown, it is easy to lose sight of what influence these technologies are having on the provision and effects of healthcare interventions. This paper reviews the use of smartphones and social media in healthcare while discussing the…..
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