Announced for several months, the Facebook health service is starting to appear among a few users. The social network wants to give its users medical advice.
With Facebook, never miss any flu vaccination campaign! For a few hours now, some users of the social network have had access to new functions dedicated to health. Facebook has been planning to get into this business for several months.
Facebook health monitoring service: Reminders and events
Unlike Apple or Google (which stores your medical data and offers you a kind of connected health book), Facebook wants to be more of a secretary than a doctor. In the health section of the social network, there are for example reminders for screening for cervical cancer, offered by the American Cancer Society. If you have already done so, you can tell the social network and it will send you an alert when the time comes to do one again. Facebook does light preventative medicine.