Healthcare facilities nowadays offer online services through their intranet services. Many patients however prefer researching about their healthcare conditions through the internet and knowing what they are suffering from before making the big step of going to the hospital. The Internet is however flogged with medical precisions which include symptoms, diagnosis and possible curative measures ("eHealth Initiative | A Report on the Use of Social Media to Prevent Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Disease", 2016). For instance, there are medical institutions, which have Internet channels on YouTube for instance. They use these channels to air surgical procedures or basic medical processes that might come in handy in a human life. For instance, through the channels patients might be interested in the processes of maternal delivery or the processes of fast aids for particular accidents (Divol, Sarrazin, & Edelman, 2012). These Internet services are often important when it comes to fast aid procedures. Most moms use social media to seek medical information and discuss about their symptoms, and express their opinions about their doctors, drugs and their health insurers.
Many adults these days have access to smartphones and computers. These devices make it easy for them to access the Internet services whenever they are in need. A good percentage of these people also tend to post about their experiences online (Bughin, Manyika, & Chui, 2013). These online information that are posted by other people on the social media often tend to reach many people who often find the information on the social media helpful and relevant to their daily health experiences("Can Social Media Revolutionize Health Care", 2016). Some of the information consumers argue that the information that the find online often affect their general opinion on the healthcare services and thus help them to make wise decisions based on the information that they receive from the people with past experiences with the same kind of illnesses. Actually, about 54% of women own smartphones in USA and of the 54% about 40% have downloaded health services apps, which help them with some of the symptoms of the diseases that they experience.
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