Healthcare ethics and professionalism in social media

Sophia M. Wolfe; Sophia S. Hu; Chandler W. Rundle; Gil S. Weintraub; Robert P. Dellavalle

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56861-0_20

Healthcare ethics and professionalism in social media

Sophia M. Wolfe, Sophia S. Hu, Chandler W. Rundle, Gil S. Weintraub, Robert P. Dellavalle

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Abstract

Social media has become an important tool to facilitate global communication. Platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter have fundamentally altered the landscape by which individuals and organizations interact with one another. Social media affords individuals access to online medical information, facilitates communication amongst patients and clinicians, and allows photos and videos to be shared among patients and healthcare professionals. However, ethical dilemmas, ranging from maintaining patient privacy to disclosing conflicts of interest, arise from the expanded influence afforded to providers via social media and the lack of guidelines for its use in the professional context. This chapter explores ethical uses of social media for engaging patients, educating the public, and marketing dermatology practices.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Dermatoethics
Subtitle of host publication	Contemporary Ethics and Professionalism in Dermatology
Publisher	Springer
Pages	185-197
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030568610
ISBN (Print)	9783030568603
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56861-0_20
State	Published - Feb 26 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Conflict of interest
HIPAA
Marketing
Patient privacy
Patient-physician relationship
Social media

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