and was always part of healthcare: the social character and interaction between people.
Please read
http://www.jmir.org/2013/4/e85/
to get a good overview.
The limitations of social media
Social media tools remain informal, unregulated mechanisms for information collection, sharing, and promotion, so the information is of varying quality and consistency. Similar issues exist with traditional Internet sites, but these issues are being heightened by the interactive nature of social media, which allows lay-users to upload information regardless of quality. Reliability may be monitored by responsible bodies using automated processes, employed to signal when content has been significantly edited, and progress is being made in automated quality detection.
are mainly attributable to the immature nature of the platforms in general. Social Media is just too general pupose to be used for healthcare purposes. There is a need for reliablity, meaning and accuracy. Personalization of content can be achieved but what is missing is the ability to handle the intense nature of medical knowledge. My approach is the complete Patient Centered Infrastructure which i will document in this blog
