The Use of Social Media in Healthcare

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Last updated on February 16, 2026 12:02 am

Learn how ‘e-Health’ messaging on social media can aid communication between doctors and patients and improve public health awareness and quality of healthcare.

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Have you ever wondered how you can use gaming to influence healthy behaviour? Trying to understand the role that social media can play in the healthcare sector is challenging. This course explores all the possibilities where social media influences our health. Whether it’s the variety of tools available for promoting health on social media or improving patient-doctor interaction, we have covered it. So enrol now!

What You Will Learn In This Free Course

  • Discuss the origins of social media …
  • Define the terms ?e-Health? and ?big…
  • Describe the term ?medical social me…
  • Examine the role social media can pl…
  • Discuss the origins of social media and its role in the modern-day world as an agent for better communication
  • Define the terms ?e-Health? and ?big data? along with their role in improving the quality of the information provided to healthcare providers
  • Describe the term ?medical social media? along with the people, sublanguage and media platforms that it encapsulates
  • Examine the role social media can play in promoting a better relationship between patients and healthcare providers
  • Analyse the function of games and how they can be utilised for behavioural change in providing quality healthcare
  • Identify some of the ethical and legal issues that can be encountered while using social media for healthcare purposes
  • Social Media and Healthcare

    In this module, the learner will be examining the role of social media and how it can be used to impact the healthcare industry. The role social media can play in compiling large amounts of data, improving patient-doctor communication, and delivering information to patients will be discussed. Behavioral change via social media will also be analyzed

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