Design of health social media to improve the quality of patient's recovery

Abstract

One of the issues in the health domain is the communication between doctor and patient. The quality and frequency of communication is very crucial on the patient's recovery. Social media come with it's great impact in socializing activities in recent year and it can be one alternative to solve communication problem in health sector. However, social media existing now are not fully in accordance with the needs of the health community. This paper reported the result of research about appropriate design of health social media. From this research, we can define three characteristics and functionalities of health community that must be fulfilled by health social media. That characteristics are security and confidentiality of information, difference of social data and health data, and the importance of the truth of information and the credibility of users that involved in health community.