| More Oversight Needed for Healthcare Social Media: Report |
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| Written by The Buzz | |||
| Monday, 03 October 2011 19:23 | |||
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As patients turn more to social networks and the Internet for health information, a new report finds that more oversight is needed in the quality of information available on these sites, according to Healthcare IT News. The report, which is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, finds that there is a huge difference in structure, financing, oversight of content and membership on the sights often resulting in erroneous or incomplete information. Click here to read the full article. | |||
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About the Author: Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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