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.

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Dec 15th, 12:00 AM

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.