WhatsApp: how to get more out of it

In case you don’t know what WhatsApp is; it is a free instant communications app that works on different mobile device platforms and is owned by Facebook. It is one of the world’s most commonly used social media, immediate communication tools with around 1.5 billion users throughout the globe.1 With that volume of users, it is not surprising that healthcare professionals are significant users both in hospitals and in the community. Patient confidentiality However beware, there are significant risks of potential breaches of patient confidentiality when using a messaging medium such as WhatsApp (or equivalent).2,3 Every clinical study on mobile