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Social Media Usage Justified or not You Decide??

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  Social Media - A platform where everybody in the today’s world exists and puts their thoughts. According to a report on April 2020 Facebook has 2.498 billion monthly users, Instagram has 1 billion monthly users, Twitter has a reach of 386 million active users. Almost all the people in the person in the world of the age between 18-60 years are actively using these social media platforms on a large and regular basis. We can say that social media is a tool that has both its positive and negative impacts. But over time, we can see that the negative impacts are increasing day by day. Social media has become so powerful that it takes a mere few seconds to reach a post to every corner of the world. So let’s see these aspects one by one. Positive Impacts   It has a wide reach and a large target audience   It has made the interaction easier and convenient Negative Impacts       The utility of services in some wrong hands         Increase in fraudulent activities         Cy

Telemedicine- How it has Increased the reach of Healthcare to Patient’s Doorstep

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Telemedicine is that branch of healthcare technology that provides remote clinical services, via real time communication between the patient and the healthcare provider, using the electrical audio/video tools.                                                                 Telemedicine services has actually started long back, but its reach and potential came into action in the late 20 th century with the advancement in the usage of technology it has now became an integral part of the healthcare system. Telemedicine in the primary care, is usually in the form of phone calls where the patients seeks help from the doctors, for non-emergency health problems, which doesn’t require physical visit to the doctor. But it don’t replace face to face consultation when it is required, but it complements it. The real role of telemedicine is to provide convenience to the patients and practitioners by eliminating the requirement of paying the visit to the doctor in person. This is a cost saving