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Social media-based self management intervention is effective in patient education

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Social media-based self-management intervention is effective in educating patients who attempt to improve self-care. Kim and the team have conducted a study to evaluate the effects of social media-based, health literacy sensitive diabetes management intervention on patient activation, self-care behavior, and glucose control when compared to telephone-based health literacy-sensitive diabetes management intervention and usual care […]

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Facebook on the way to launch a new healthcare tool

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Facebook, a powerful marketing tool in social media, is about launch a tool known as “Preventive health” to promote the users to get regular health checkups. Initially, the tool will focus on the top two leading cause of death: the “heart diseases” and “cancer” along with flu.  The tool marks a reminder of the completed […]