Public Health Informatics: Role of Social Media and Telemedicine

Running head: PUBLIC HEATH INFORMATICS
PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Twitter review..............................................................................................................................3
Telemedicine................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The public health informatics refers to the application of informatics in the area of public
health involving surveillance, prevention and promotion of health. This assignment us dealing
with public informatics, it is analyzing the role of ICT in the management of public health,
healthcare access and delivering of services. This assignment is dealing with the uses of ICT
including mHealth, eHealth and the different strategies of the social media for health. The
assignment will describe the reviews from different twitter accounts from week 1 to week 5 and
it is also dealing with the barriers of telemedicine in Australia because of which the healthcare
services are effected.
Discussion
The whole health industry is very much dependent on the social media, starting from the
clinical healthcare programs to the public health campaigns in order to support, promote and
spread the information and data for improving both the personal and the community healthcare
services. The social media had provided he human beings the to share the different preventive
measures and also help human to create support to track the personal health and support in the
creation of the patient to patient after the diagnoses is over (Attai et al., 2017). The social media
help the patients to learn a lot of things regarding the different healthcare policies and different
healthcare programs. There are many social media which allow the people to get accustomed
with the different public health programs but among them ‘twitter’ allows people with different
public health related accounts which helps people to become more conscious about health (Lee et
al., 2015)

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Twitter review
Twitter is an online network of social media which offers a new way to track and
maintain the management of the public health risks. The twitter helps the users to make new
friends and also keep the friendship with each other and also with the family members and with
the co-workers. This is possible by sending short messages through computers or mobile phones
(Logghe et al., 2016). The twitter account also helps to detect the location of the user and also
helps in tracking the major details (Thompson et al., 2015). Apart from providing the
information regarding the health related programs the twitter also helps in providing information
about events like earthquakes and typhoons, etc. So many accounts are there which provide
information about public related programs but among them only a few accounts are there whose
news feed provide us with several helpful information regarding the different public health
programs (Pemmaraju et al, 2017). Some of the useful accounts are @telemedicinme,
@equitylist and @TheMarmotReview. @TheMarmotReview is one of the account which collect
recent information about the recent public health services. According to one of the post within
this five week, a program has been described which makes information about the intellectual
disability. People suffering from these difficulties suffer from issues like malfunction in
communication which serves as the barrier in accessing and participating in healthcare. The
project was set by 3DN UNSW. The project aimed in communicating with the family members
of the patient order to find their health journey and to teach them the type of the resources
required to develop the knowledge about the intellectual disability. @telemedicine is one of the
important journal which keeps different news and the updated information about all new research
works and published research papers. According to one of the post of the telemedicine journal
had posted about publishing of a new research paper about the effect of telephones. The name of