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«Oggi, però - continua Santoro - Facebook e Twitter sono più utilizzati come social media, cioè come strumenti di propagazione dell'informazione, anche medico-sanitaria, che ha origine da altri media, compresi quelli tradizionali, come giornali e canali TV (che infatti hanno aperto pagine su Facebook per diffondere i propri contenuti ndr)

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80 % des répondants ont reconnu que l'utilisation des médias sociaux « pose pour les médecins des risques professionnels et légaux

80 % des répondants ont reconnu que l'utilisation des médias sociaux « pose pour les médecins des risques professionnels et légaux », même si un peu plus de la moitié des répondants (51 %) pensent que les médias sociaux peuvent aider le public à mieux connaître des questions médicales.

il est difficile pour les patients de distinguer l'information médicale solide et valable des renseignements erronés sans fondement qui circulent en ligne

The Epocrates Mobile Sample Closet gives you direct access to free drug sample and literature offers from participating manufacturers.

The new system has been embraced by nurses and technicians as a great time-saver, and has proven a convenient tool for doctors as an access point to all patient data for analysis and diagnosis," the report said.

This observational study will be the first to use wikis in the development of dynamic patient information leaflets

In Kenya, if you charged women just 50p for an insecticide-treated bednet (one of the most effective low-cost prophylactics against malaria) demand dropped 75 per cent. Uptake of deworming drugs—an important factor in child development—dropped 80 per cent if a small charge was applied. And in October 2005, the Bamako initiative received a fatal blow from a paper in the British Medical Journal. The study took epidemiological data from 20 African countries and projected what would happen if user fees were removed. The conclusion was that, each year, the lives of 233,000 children under five would be saved.

The right technology, medical experts say, can potentially overcome two major hurdles to the adoption of electronic health records by doctors: cost and complexity.

The government plans to spend $19 billion in incentive payments — up to $44,000 per doctor, and gave practices five years to adopt electronic records before penalties begin.

“With the right software that is cloud-based, the iPad is going to be transformational in health care,”

The brothers are also betting that Internet technology and Apple’s iPad can make electronic records far easier to use and less expensive