TY - JOUR
T1 - The use and impact of Twitter at medical conferences
T2 - Best practices and Twitter etiquette
AU - Pemmaraju, Naveen
AU - Mesa, Ruben A.
AU - Majhail, Navneet S.
AU - Thompson, Michael A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - The use of social media, and in particular, Twitter, for professional use among healthcare providers is rapidly increasing across the world. One medical subspecialty that is leading the integration of this new platform for communication into daily practice and for information dissemination to the general public is the field of hematology/oncology. A growing amount of research in this area demonstrates that there is increasing interest among physicians to learn not only how to use social media for consumption of educational material, but also how to generate and contribute original content in one's interest/expert areas. One aspect in which this phenomenon has been highlighted is at the time of maximum new information presentation: at a major medical conference. Hematologists/oncologists are engaging regularly in one of the most common forms of social media, Twitter, during major medical conferences, for purposes of debate, discussion, and real-time evaluation of the data being presented. As interest has grown in this area, this article aims to review the new norms, practices, and impact of using Twitter at the time of medical conferences, and also explores some of the barriers and pitfalls that users are encountering in this emerging field.
AB - The use of social media, and in particular, Twitter, for professional use among healthcare providers is rapidly increasing across the world. One medical subspecialty that is leading the integration of this new platform for communication into daily practice and for information dissemination to the general public is the field of hematology/oncology. A growing amount of research in this area demonstrates that there is increasing interest among physicians to learn not only how to use social media for consumption of educational material, but also how to generate and contribute original content in one's interest/expert areas. One aspect in which this phenomenon has been highlighted is at the time of maximum new information presentation: at a major medical conference. Hematologists/oncologists are engaging regularly in one of the most common forms of social media, Twitter, during major medical conferences, for purposes of debate, discussion, and real-time evaluation of the data being presented. As interest has grown in this area, this article aims to review the new norms, practices, and impact of using Twitter at the time of medical conferences, and also explores some of the barriers and pitfalls that users are encountering in this emerging field.
KW - Disease-specific hashtag
KW - Medical conferences
KW - Social media
KW - Twitter
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U2 - 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2017.08.003
DO - 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2017.08.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 29153078
AN - SCOPUS:85029213878
SN - 0037-1963
VL - 54
SP - 184
EP - 188
JO - Seminars in Hematology
JF - Seminars in Hematology
IS - 4
ER -