Quality of Medical Information in Social Media: Webicina.com
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Abstract
Background
The number of health-related websites is still exponentially growing and there is also a huge amount of medicine-related content in social media. Examples include Facebook, community sites, video channels, Twitter accounts, blogs and slideshows, among others and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find relevant and reliable resources.
Methods
We aimed to select the most relevant medical social media resources in over 80 medical specialties and conditions through a quality score algorithm on Webicina.com and also provide the medical community with free e-guides about how to write a successful medical blog, how to be up-to-date in medicine or how to organize events for free in the virtual environment.
Results
We designed "Social media guidance packages†in which only selected social media tools focusing on different medical topics are featured. We also created the simplest medical information aggregator, PeRSSonalized Medicine, that lets users browse Pubmed articles and the best medical journals, blogs, news sites, Twitter users, Youtube channels, etc. devoted to their fields of interest in a personalized way without registering or having experience in using RSS. It is also now available in 17 languages.
Conclusions
Assisting medical professionals who aim to become guides for their patients online and also empowered patients who would like to find reliable medical content provides clear value. Free quality medical social media resources must be easily accessible for everyone.
The number of health-related websites is still exponentially growing and there is also a huge amount of medicine-related content in social media. Examples include Facebook, community sites, video channels, Twitter accounts, blogs and slideshows, among others and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find relevant and reliable resources.
Methods
We aimed to select the most relevant medical social media resources in over 80 medical specialties and conditions through a quality score algorithm on Webicina.com and also provide the medical community with free e-guides about how to write a successful medical blog, how to be up-to-date in medicine or how to organize events for free in the virtual environment.
Results
We designed "Social media guidance packages†in which only selected social media tools focusing on different medical topics are featured. We also created the simplest medical information aggregator, PeRSSonalized Medicine, that lets users browse Pubmed articles and the best medical journals, blogs, news sites, Twitter users, Youtube channels, etc. devoted to their fields of interest in a personalized way without registering or having experience in using RSS. It is also now available in 17 languages.
Conclusions
Assisting medical professionals who aim to become guides for their patients online and also empowered patients who would like to find reliable medical content provides clear value. Free quality medical social media resources must be easily accessible for everyone.
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