engleski

Are we aware that our digital footprint stays forever?

Introduction: Social networks are defined as web sites and applications that allow users to create, share, comment on content and present platforms that enable social networking. With the emergence of digital media and social networks, the term e- professionalism of physicians is defined as attitudes and behaviours that reflect the traditional paradigms of professionalism of health professionals manifested through digital media. Methods: Aim of this presentation is to explore the impact of social networks on e-professionalism of healthcare professionals in the Republic of Croatia. We’ll present the impact of social networks on e-professionalism from the prospective of a specialist in psychiatry, and compare it with the prospective from a different healthcare professional, dentist. Results and discussion: Digital media influence a wide range of medical professional behaviour, and present both dangers and challenges to opportunities. The opportunities are: 1) the use of social networks as a tool to improve information sharing ; 2) the presence of doctors in area with inadequate health care ; 3) the process of life-long learning is supported by social networks ; 4) mentoring student activities on social networks. The most common limitations are insufficient reliability, questionable quality of information, lack of privacy and confidentiality, inadequate use of social networks for communicating with patients and social networks may be an obstacle to realizing "real" contact with a healthcare worker.

Social networks ; e-professionalism ; healthcare professionals

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