User-created content and communications on Web-based applica-tions, such as networking sites, media sharing sites, or blog plat-forms, have dramatically increased in popularity over the past sev-eral years, but there has been little policy or guidance on the best practices to inform standards for the professional conduct of phy-sicians in the digital environment. Areas of specific concern include the use of such media for nonclinical purposes, implications for confidentiality, the use of social media in patient education, and how all of this affects the public's trust in physicians as patient-physician interactions extend into the digital environment. Oppor-tunities afforded by online applications represent a new frontier in medicine as physicians and patients become more connected. This position paper from the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards examines and provides recom-mendations about the influence of social media on the patient-physician relationship, the role of these media in public perception of physician behaviors, and strategies for physician-physician com-munication that preserve confidentiality while best using these technologies. © 2013 American College of Physicians.
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Farnan, J. M., Sulmasy, L. S., Worster, B. K., Chaudhry, H. J., Rhyne, J. A., & Arora, V. M. (2013). Online medical professionalism: Patient and public relationships: Policy statement from the American College of physicians and the federation of State Medical Boards. Annals of Internal Medicine, 158(8), 620–627. https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-158-8-201304160-00100
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