Location
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
Start Date
12-15-2014
Description
In recent years, with appearance of social media era, the social media have been used in various ways in healthcare areas. Some use them as a tool for disease treatments others use them as a health information source. The more people get information and psychological supports from social media, the more healthcare service organizations provide health information on the social media. In such trends, little empirical research has systematically examined the causal relationship between the social media environment and the impact of social media on health outcome. To fill this gap, this study investigated how social media influence individual user's health outcome using the SPO framework, especially focusing on their self-management outcome. The result shows that Health Information Social Media (HISM) significantly influences one's psychological and behavioral health outcome.
Recommended Citation
Yoo, Hee-Sook, "The impact of Social Media on Healthcare" (2014). ICIS 2014 Proceedings. 28.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2014/proceedings/ISHealthcare/28
The impact of Social Media on Healthcare
260-055, Owen G. Glenn Building
In recent years, with appearance of social media era, the social media have been used in various ways in healthcare areas. Some use them as a tool for disease treatments others use them as a health information source. The more people get information and psychological supports from social media, the more healthcare service organizations provide health information on the social media. In such trends, little empirical research has systematically examined the causal relationship between the social media environment and the impact of social media on health outcome. To fill this gap, this study investigated how social media influence individual user's health outcome using the SPO framework, especially focusing on their self-management outcome. The result shows that Health Information Social Media (HISM) significantly influences one's psychological and behavioral health outcome.