Efficient Utility of WhatsApp

Kelahmetoğlu, Osman; Firinciogullari, Remzi; Yağmur, Çağlayan

doi:10.1097/scs.0000000000001627

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“…A number of studies we covered in this review concluded that Instagram and WhatsApp, being free to use, are suitable for low-resource settings (e.g., [27,[37][38][39][40]). Different studies also concurred that the high photo quality (transmission and display) offered by these services is more than adequate for clinical diagnostic purposes in teleconsultations (e.g., [40][41][42]), although diagnostic picture quality is also dependent on other factors such as the user's camera specifications (including camera lens specifications), lighting, and camera angle/position and distance from photographed lesions, particularly in disciplines such as clinical dermatology. Table 1 presents some of the above discussed themes in relation to Instagram and WhatsApp uses in health and healthcare.…”

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“…They found an excellent inter-and intra-observer agreement in the imaging assessment of tibial plateau fractures on WhatsApp, and concluded that the app is suited for obtaining the opinion of an experienced consultant when not on call. In the same vein, Kelahmetoglu et al [42] found that "sending and receiving images and videos on WhatsApp is an easy, rapid way of evaluating maxillofacial CT scans in night-time teleconsultation".…”

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Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

2016

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Instagram and WhatsApp are two social media and networking services introduced in 2010. They are currently subsidiaries of Facebook, Inc., California, USA. Using evidence from the published literature and case reports indexed in PubMed and other sources, we present an overview of the various applications of Instagram and WhatsApp in health and healthcare. We also briefly describe the main issues surrounding the uses of these two apps in health and medicine.

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Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

2016

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“…There was a report of a life-saving use of WhatsApp in a resource-limited situation in which the life of a critically ill patient was saved by sending clinical monitor images with electrocardiogram changes and receiving feedback from an expert consultant who was 40 km away from the center where the patient was admitted [141]. Moreover, evaluating maxillofacial computed tomography scans using WhatsApp has been reported to be easy and rapid [142]. WhatsApp was also useful for communication between emergency department consultants when they were not onsite [143].…”

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Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Farsi¹

2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background As the world continues to advance technologically, social media (SM) is becoming an essential part of billions of people’s lives worldwide and is affecting almost every industry imaginable. As the world is becoming more digitally oriented, the health care industry is increasingly visualizing SM as an important channel for health care promotion, employment, recruiting new patients, marketing for health care providers (HCPs), building a better brand name, etc. HCPs are bound to ethical principles toward their colleagues, patients, and the public in the digital world as much as in the real world. Objective This review aims to shed light on SM use worldwide and to discuss how it has been used as an essential tool in the health care industry from the perspective of HCPs. Methods A literature review was conducted between March and April 2020 using MEDLINE, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science for all English-language medical studies that were published since 2007 and discussed SM use in any form for health care. Studies that were not in English, whose full text was not accessible, or that investigated patients’ perspectives were excluded from this part, as were reviews pertaining to ethical and legal considerations in SM use. Results The initial search yielded 83 studies. More studies were included from article references, and a total of 158 studies were reviewed. SM uses were best categorized as health promotion, career development or practice promotion, recruitment, professional networking or destressing, medical education, telemedicine, scientific research, influencing health behavior, and public health care issues. Conclusions Multidimensional health care, including the pairing of health care with SM and other forms of communication, has been shown to be very successful. Striking the right balance between digital and traditional health care is important.

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“…WhatsApp has also been effective in supporting communication between patients and dermatologists (Kaliyadan et al, 2016), in supporting intradepartmental communication on patient-related awareness, communication and handovers among orthopaedic residents (Khanna et al, 2015), and in clinical oral medicine and dentistry (Petruzzi and De Benedittis, 2016). More specifically, in resource poor, rural and remote settings, WhatsApp has been found to be an effective communication tool in linking to tertiary centres for cardiology (Astarcioglu et al, 2015;Thota and Divatia, 2015), orthopaedic fractures (Giordano et al, 2015), and maxillofacial trauma (Kelahmetoglu and Firinciogullari, 2015). Previous research has also demonstrated the value of WhatsApp in supporting learning for various groups including nursing students (Willemse, 2015), first-year undergraduate radiography students (Robinson et al, 2015) and self-help patient groups with hypertension and diabetes (Ramirez, 2015).…”

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Using a social media based intervention to enhance eye health awareness of members of a deprived community in India

Maitra

Rowley

2021

Information Development

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Deprived communities in India experience a range of health challenges as the result of a mixture of lack of access to information technologies, and difficulties in accessing health information and provision. This article reports on an intervention centred on the use of the social media platform, WhatsApp, in order to promote eye health communication. The case study based research was conducted in the village of Chowbaga, close to Kolkata, in West Bengal, with women participants who had low levels of education and high levels of unemployment. The women were invited to participate in a WhatsApp intervention that comprised five educational sessions. Participants were recruited through the local school that their children attended. Shortly after the conclusion of the intervention, focus groups were conducted with the participants in order to develop an understanding of participants views of the beneficial characteristics of such a social media based intervention, and, more specifically, the benefits of WhatsApp in increasing awareness of eye problems within their community. This research demonstrates and summarises the benefits of WhatsApp as a communications medium for deprived communities, as well as its potential for increasing awareness of eye problems. In particular, participants were of the view that future access to WhatsApp and other mobile-based platforms empowered them to take better care of their own and their family’s health.

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Efficient Utility of WhatsApp

Cited by 18 publications

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Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

Instagram and WhatsApp in Health and Healthcare: An Overview

Social Media and Health Care, Part I: Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Using a social media based intervention to enhance eye health awareness of members of a deprived community in India

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