@article{ffa56a58ee694d818cf84cd260104230,
title = "The use of social media in healthcare: Knowledge transfer in the Cyprus healthcare system",
abstract = "Social media is considered one of the most popular channels used by healthcare practitioners to communicate with their publics, transfer their knowledge and promote health. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the benefits of the use of social media in healthcare to enhance knowledge in the Cyprus' healthcare system. This qualitative study elaborates the orientation of physical experts about social media and knowledge exchange in the workplace. The face-to-face interview approach was used to investigate the exposition with the help of 184 non-directive and semi-structured interviews from the physical experts in Cyprus, using convenience sampling and thematic analysis was done using NVivo-11 plus. The results end up with three major themes. The social media applications extend communication and relationship between employees. These social media applications are equally beneficial for acquiring existing and new knowledge transfer. Social media applications advance knowledge exchange by promoting knowledge sharing and transfer.",
keywords = "Clinical practice, Digital communication, Healthcare system, Knowledge transfer, New media, Social media communication",
author = "Marcos Komodromos and Nicholas Nicoli and Charalambos Papacharalambous",
note = "Funding Information: The survival rate of head and neck carcinoma patients remains low, the 3-year survival rate being equal to 37% in the European cancer registries ( 1). As loco-regional recurrence is a major cause of failure, efforts should focus on improving loco-regional treatment. It had been suggested that inadequate local control might be related to hypoxic tumor cells, with tumor oxygen concentration be- Reprint requests to: F. Eschwege, Institut Gustave Roussy 94805 Villejuif, Cedex, France. Acknowledgements-This work was supported by Roberts Lab- oratories, Eatontown, NJ 07724, and in part by the Ligue Na-tionale Fran@e Contre le Cancer-Comite des Hauts-de-Seine, France. We thank all the participants in this multicentric trial: Austria: H.W. Frommhold Innsbruck; A., Ha&l, Graz; J, Hammer, H. Linz; H. Kolbabek, Wien. France: P. Bey, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy; A. Daban, Poitiers; N. Daly, Toulouse; F. Esch-wege, Villejuif, 0. Le Floch, Tours; T. N{\textquoteright}Guyen, Reims; P. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1504/IJTEL.2021.115976",
language = "English",
volume = "13",
pages = "253--265",
journal = "International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning",
issn = "1753-5255",
publisher = "Inderscience Publishers",
number = "3",
}