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Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.

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How to Market to Doctors, Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals

Healthcare Success

Marketing to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive. What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Step 1: How to Define Your Doctor Audience .

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Senate Finance Committee tackles Medicare physician pay reform

Health Care Dive

On Friday, the committee released a white paper proposing Medicare adjust doctor reimbursement to account for inflation, a key goal for physician lobbies.

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53% of Doctors Face Negative Social Media Encounters

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Over half of doctors have had a negative encounter with another user, according to Software Advice’s Social Media for Doctors Survey. However, 69% have professional and personal accounts that never reference one another.

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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

HIT Consultant

– An overwhelming percentage of patients demand accountability, transparency, and control as it relates to health data privacy. Nearly nine out of ten (88%) patients believe that their doctor or hospital should have the ability to review and verify the security of health apps before those apps gain access to their health data.

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AI has a role to play during the patient intake process

Healthcare It News

What's more, when doctors are well-informed about their patients, it has the capacity to improve the visit. Doctors are spending more time working in the EHR, and this is contributing to clinician burnout. What are some ways technology can be made better to ensure doctors are more efficient and prescriptive with their time?

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How a simple QR code can avoid 2,000 ED admissions

Healthcare It News

Through a scan of a take-home QR code, patients can reach their doctor for follow-ups via secure two-way messaging and voice or video calls. Gold Coast Health, a public health service in Queensland, has recently introduced a new digital front door for chronic disease patients.