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The role of the Internet in communication and information management has been becoming increasingly important for the last few years not only in medicine and healthcare, but it has been changing how we do shopping, interact with friends or organize events. The use of the Internet to search for health-related information has even become a common practice worldwide [1]. Almost everyone online is doing search queries, but actually 80 % of Internet users have looked specifically for information about health topics such as diagnosis or treatment [2].
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Meskó, B. (2013). Social Media Is Transforming Medicine and Healthcare. In: Social Media in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4306-2_1
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