Around 67 percent of physicians use social media in a professional context, according to an inforgraphic published by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.
Here are seven statistics on physicians' professional social media use:
• LinkedIn — 17 percent
• Facebook — 15 percent
• Youtube — 8 percent
• Google+ — 8 percent
• Blogs — 8 percent
• Twitter — 3 percent
• None of the above — 33 percent