Time for Medicine and Public Health to Leave Platform X.

IF 3.2 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Toomas Timpka
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Unlabelled: For more than 50 years, digital technologies have been employed for the creation and distribution of knowledge in health services. In the last decade, digital social media have been developed for applications in clinical decision support and population health monitoring. Recently, these technologies have also been used for knowledge translation, such as in the process where research findings created in academic settings are established as evidence and distributed for use in clinical practice, policy making, and health self-management. To date, it has been common for medical and public health institutions to have social media accounts for the dissemination of novel research findings and to facilitate conversations about these findings. However, recent events such as the transformation of the microblog Twitter to platform X have brought to light the need for the social media industry to exploit user data to generate revenue. In this viewpoint, it is argued that a redirection of social media use is required in the translation of knowledge to action in the fields of medicine and public health. A new kind of social internet is currently forming, known as the "fediverse," which denotes an ensemble of open social media that can communicate with each other while remaining independent platforms. In several countries, government institutions, universities, and newspapers use open social media to distribute information and enable discussions. These organizations control their own channels while being able to communicate with other platforms through open standards. Examples of medical knowledge translation via such open social media platforms, where users are less exposed to disinformation than in general platforms, are also beginning to appear. The current status of the social media industry calls for a broad discussion about the use of social technologies by health institutions involving researchers and health service practitioners, academic leaders, scientific publishers, social technology providers, policy makers, and the public. This debate should not primarily take place on social media platforms but rather at universities, in scientific journals, at public seminars, and other venues, allowing for the transparent and undisturbed communication and formation of opinions.

医学和公共卫生离开 X 平台的时候到了。
无标签:50 多年来,数字技术一直被用于医疗服务知识的创造和传播。在过去十年中,数字社交媒体被开发应用于临床决策支持和人口健康监测。最近,这些技术还被用于知识转化,例如在学术环境中创造的研究成果被确立为证据,并传播到临床实践、政策制定和健康自我管理中。迄今为止,医疗和公共卫生机构普遍拥有社交媒体账户来传播新的研究成果,并促进有关这些成果的对话。然而,最近发生的一些事件,如微博 Twitter 向 X 平台的转型,让人们看到了社交媒体行业利用用户数据创收的必要性。本文认为,在医学和公共卫生领域将知识转化为行动的过程中,需要对社交媒体的使用进行重新定位。目前,一种新型的社交互联网正在形成,被称为 "联邦宇宙",指的是既能相互交流又能保持独立平台的开放式社交媒体的集合体。在一些国家,政府机构、大学和报纸利用开放式社交媒体来发布信息和开展讨论。这些机构既能控制自己的渠道,又能通过开放标准与其他平台进行交流。通过此类开放式社交媒体平台进行医学知识翻译的例子也开始出现,与一般平台相比,用户在这些平台上接触到的虚假信息更少。社交媒体行业的现状要求对医疗机构使用社交技术的问题进行广泛讨论,参与者包括研究人员和医疗服务从业人员、学术带头人、科学出版商、社交技术提供商、政策制定者和公众。这种讨论不应主要在社交媒体平台上进行,而应在大学、科学杂志、公开研讨会和其他场所进行,以便在透明、不受干扰的情况下交流和形成意见。
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JMIR Medical Education
JMIR Medical Education Social Sciences-Education
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