Physician Social Media Abuse: What Would You Do?

Over the past decade, physician social media use has been made popular and evolved from simple Facebook pages to rapid, instant media sharing. New social media applications, such as Snapchat and Instagram, are finding welcome homes in personal cell phones of physicians. The purpose of this article is to determine patients' views of not only physician use of these apps but also how they would react if their physician abused this technology.

Social Media in Health Care: How Close Is Too Close?

Social media use is increasing personally and professionally across numerous industries worldwide. The purpose of this article is to explore the utilization of social media in the health care field; specifically, how the treatment of a physician's Facebook friends would differ from that of a patient the physician did not know prior to treatment. While there are several benefits that come with incorporating social media into health care, as well as into the physician-patient relationship, there are also immense risks.

Electronic Healthcare's Relationship With Patient Satisfaction and Communication.

Healthcare information technology (HIT) has been examined and shown to be a tool to improve patient healthcare quality. This study seeks to define the relationship between HIT applications such as computerized physician order entry, clinical decision support systems, and handheld device use and select Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) measures (doctor and nurse communication, discharge instructions, and whether the patient would highly recommend the hospital). Several control variables were used that represent the hospital level and contextual hospital service area level.

Association of provider communication and discharge instructions on lower readmissions.

Since the implementation of Value-Based Purchasing, hospital readmissions now effect Medicare reimbursement. This creation of a financial incentive, along with the inherent medical incentives to reduce those readmissions forces hospitals to examine their practices on the subject. Using the Donabedian model for healthcare quality, this study examined the relationship between discharge instructions and nurse/doctor communication with the patient and lower readmissions.