TY - JOUR
T1 - Making "social" safer
T2 - Are Facebook and other online networks becoming less hazardous for health professionals?
AU - George, Daniel R.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Major concerns about privacy have limited health professionals' usage of popular social networking sites such as Facebook. However, the landscape of social media is changing in favor of more sophisticated privacy controls that enable users to more carefully manage public and private information. This evolution in technology makes it potentially less hazardous for health professionals to consider accepting colleagues and patients into their online networks, and invites medicine to think constructively about how social media may add value to contemporary healthcare.
AB - Major concerns about privacy have limited health professionals' usage of popular social networking sites such as Facebook. However, the landscape of social media is changing in favor of more sophisticated privacy controls that enable users to more carefully manage public and private information. This evolution in technology makes it potentially less hazardous for health professionals to consider accepting colleagues and patients into their online networks, and invites medicine to think constructively about how social media may add value to contemporary healthcare.
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U2 - 10.1086/jce201223409
DO - 10.1086/jce201223409
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23469697
AN - SCOPUS:84875764370
SN - 1046-7890
VL - 23
SP - 348
EP - 352
JO - Journal of Clinical Ethics
JF - Journal of Clinical Ethics
IS - 4
ER -
