The social media have influence every sector of life, from
business to politics and from fashion to profession. The social media is also
playing a major role in the health service delivery. It is obvious that the health service deliveries
providers make sure that there customer are satisfied with all of the services
that they are offering. There are many of the heath care organizations that are
using the social media services for healthcare delivery, to improve their overall
healthcare services. The heath care is one of the basic needs of the people and
it is very important to make it available with the people all the time and it
is only possible by using the social media to provide the health care services
to the people in the society (Alshakhs & Alanz, 2018).
Following are some of the examples of the social media use
in the health care delivery:
The social media is the best way to connect the patents with
the health care experts. The patients can consult the experts anytime when they
have any queries and questions related to their health. The hospital also needs
to come up with new social platforms to engage the patient with the health care
experts, so the services of the health care can be improves and make them available
easily to the patients. This also permits the patients to contribute to their knowledge
and get immediate help from the patient. It is also obvious that the health system can utilize
the pages of the social network to give confidence to the patient and people with
their disease and how to rise above their healthcare difficulty (Marouchos, 2015).
The physicians can also use the social media for making association
and generate a society of healthcare supplier. This is also likely to help appointment
and help to bring more health care problems solution to patients and encourage anticipation
of any disease and illness. The social media also help out to improved learning
via experiences and make sure better and superior recognition. The platform of
the social media is excellent as it comprises a number of populace and any
person is capable of connecting with it in spite of the region and distance to
the heath care centers. It also lends a hand to the patients to understand the heath
care quality that is required for better knowledge and experience (Alshakhs & Alanz, 2018).
The social media platforms used as platform that can be use
by the physicians and doctors for any sort of update regarding certain procedures
and practices. The experts can distribute up to date services and expert
advises so that medical practitioners be acquainted with it and be aware of the
improvement. This is also likely to help in quality improvement of the health
care and lend a hand to have a connection with the doctors from transversely
providing all of the health care services to the patients under on platform
that is known as social media. in the
social media platform there can be live videos and session to talk about the
techniques, updates and overall medical science measures (Marouchos, 2015).
References of Social media play many different roles in
health service delivery
Alshakhs, F., & Alanz, T. (2018). The evolving role of
social media in health-care delivery: measuring the perception of health-care
professionals in Eastern Saudi Arabia. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
, 473–479.
Marouchos, A. (2015, December 28). The 6 Benefits of Social
Media in Healthcare. Retrieved from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-benefits-social-media-healthcare-andreas-marouchos