Twitter 101 and beyond: introduction to social media platforms available to practicing hematologist/oncologists.

Social media utilizes specific media platforms to allow increased interactivity between participants. These platforms serve diverse groups and purposes including participation from patients, family caregivers, research scientists, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies. Utilization of these information outlets has increased with integration at conferences and between conferences with the use of hashtags and "chats".

Online professional networks for physicians: risk management.

Background: The rapidly developing array of online physician-only communities represents a potential extraordinary advance in the availability of educational and informational resources to physicians. These online communities provide physicians with a new range of controls over the information they process, but use of this social media technology carries some risk.

Questions/purposes: The purpose of this review was to help physicians manage the risks of online professional networking and discuss the potential benefits that may come with such networks.