The Future of Health Care

  It's Sticking Point

Social media is invading health care and trying to revolutionize it. Patient communities are flourishing in social networks and hospitals and medical centers are diving into the mix with youtube channels. Hospitals are moving away from experiemental networking to more strategic use of the media to enhance loyalty amongst patients. However, at the same time, health care officals are finding problems in being able to adopt the social media, this is causing them to become at risk certain hospital department security risks.

Privacy concerns, vulnerability of social media accounts, are the set backs of these flourishing social networks. Some of the tactics that are being used are converging health records, gathering social media for specific providers, and generally managing conversations. There are better ways to engage health care patients and consumers in conversations without working about privacy concerns. For example, a way to do this would be to promote a wellness plan, this will encourage networks to come together without allocating specific medical advice towards a patients condition.