Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.

Hospitals and health care providers are slowly but surely using new media and social networking software for some of their primary objectives--treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. This presentation will feature best practices from case studies and prescribe future uses of new media in public health.