The company said Thursday that licensed healthcare professionals can now apply to get panels added to their videos that show them as reliable health information sources. They will be able to add videos to health content shelves which contain information on specific medical conditions.
The feature can be used by licensed doctors, nurses, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and social workers. People who apply for licenses will be verified byYouTube. The Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the National Academy of Medicine, and the World Health Organization have created best practices for sharing health information. Users accepted into the program will be periodically reexamined to make sure they still meet the criteria.
Public health departments and hospitals used to be the only organizations that could access these features. The change will allow us to include high quality information from a wider group of healthcare channels.
The volume of reliable health information on the platform is being worked on.
We need to tackle medical misinformation by either removing or reducing what we see. People are still looking for answers. You have to make sure you have enough information to allow people to engage.
Medical misinformation was a major source of misinformation around covid and the covid vaccine. It is possible to improve the mix of healthcare content by elevating what is considered good information, but it is not certain if it will counteract the bad.
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