E-patients in the Age of Online Healthcare Communications
Online healthcare communications are no longer part of a far off future. Individual medical practices must choose: either lead or follow your competitors.
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Online healthcare communications are no longer part of a far off future. Individual medical practices must choose: either lead or follow your competitors.
Blogs may be out of a doctor’s comfort zone, but they’re usually of utmost value to their patients. Connecting science to personal experience is the key.
For medical blog success and online visibility use keywords liberally. Putting common medical keywords in blog titles is especially effective.
Explaining complicated medical jargon is a job requirement: Simplify doctor talk for your patients’ benefit.
Of all the tactics for a successful physician blog, saying something meaningful to patients is most critical. Don’t avoid medical controversy; embrace it.
Should a physician use a personal blog to share his/her opinion on medical controversies? As a medical expert, online physician participation is crucial.
Doctors: You should participate in patient conversations on the web and watch your blog views increase significantly.
As a physician you can either be related to the online conversations or out of them altogether. Blog to be the authoritative source patients trust.
What should be the main purpose of doctor blogging? My best answer: To help people sort out hope from hype.
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