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Review
. 2015 Dec;10(4):405-12.
doi: 10.1007/s11899-015-0286-x.

Social Media and the Practicing Hematologist: Twitter 101 for the Busy Healthcare Provider

Michael A Thompson  1 , Navneet S Majhail  2 , William A Wood  3   4 , Miguel-Angel Perales  5   6 , Mélanie Chaboissier  7
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Social Media and the Practicing Hematologist: Twitter 101 for the Busy Healthcare Provider

Michael A Thompson et al. Curr Hematol Malig Rep. 2015 Dec.

Abstract

Social media is a relatively new form of media that includes social networks for communication dissemination and interaction. Patients, physicians, and other users are active on social media including the microblogging platform Twitter. Many online resources are available to facilitate joining and adding to online conversations. Social media can be used for professional uses, therefore, we include anecdotes of physicians starting on and implementing social media successfully despite the limits of time in busy practices. Various applications demonstrating the utility of social media are explored. These include case discussions, patient groups, research collaborations, medical education, and crowdsourcing/crowdfunding. Social media is integrating into the professional workflow for some individuals and hematology/oncology societies. The potential for improving hematology care and research is just starting to be explored.

Keywords: Communication; Crowdfunding; Facebook; Hematology; Social media; Twitter.

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Figure 1
Composition of a tweet. Typical steps involved in composing a “tweet,” which cannot exceed 140 characters (including spaces).
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Anatomy of a tweet.
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    1. •(This reference is a blog post generated in response to a pharmaceutical company asking about how to interact on social media – treat it like any media.)
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    1. ••(A personal account of starting on social media, especially Twitter.)
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