Statistics
There is a growing need for a healthcare social media platform to engage both doctors and patients together.
- 74% of internet users engage on social media. 80% of those internet users are specifically looking for health information, and nearly half are searching for information about a specific doctor or health professional.Â
- 60% of consumers say they trust doctors’ posts versus 36% who trust posts from a pharma firm.
- These stats clearly show that patients are in need of a platform where they can engage freely with doctors regarding there concern. PatientMD provides a collaborative healthcare social media platform where patients can chat anonymously with doctors.
Your Local Circle
You can see what has been posted on your local circle based on doctors and patients in your locality and your topics of interest. For a particular post, you can:
- Save the post
- Add it to
My Topics
list - Mute the post
- Report the post
- Turn off Notification for the post
Quick Links
Want to create your own post or start a private chat? Just click on the
+icon on the bottom right of your screen and voila! Choose what you wish to do, you can search for your history, search for your saved posts, go to your topics, start a private chat with a patient or a doctor and create your own post.
Add more to your list
You can always add more topics to your list to broaden and share your knowledge. Just go to the quick links and select
My Topics. Click on
Add More Topicsand select the desired topics from the PatientMD topics list. Click on
Add to my Listand you are done. You will now be able to see all the posts related to those topics which you can read and comment on.