John, EMR and HIPAA
“I’ve generally been writing more about the EMR side of EMR and HIPAA lately. For the most part, it seems readers are more interested in EMR and EHR than they are in the details of HIPAA.
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Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Don’t assume the entire staff at your organization – or, for that matter, all your contractors – apply common sense when using Facebook. Odds are that at least some of them don’t.
This was recently illustrated by the news that a contract employee at a California hospital posted information about a patient on a Facebook page – just for laughs.
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Donna Gordon Blankinship, HuffingtonPost
“Here’s another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It’s a great place to find a kidney.
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Dan Buckland, MedGadget
“A paper in the Christmas edition of the Danish Medical Journal attempts to ask whether we can trust our Facebook friends with providing a differential diagnosis. One of the authors, Dr. Peter Hallas, modestly asked that we take a look at his paper, so we jumped at the chance and think he should give himself and his co-authors a lot of credit for studying phenomena that are already occurring.
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Angela Haupt, US News
“Thomas Lee’s business cards are stamped with the link to his Facebook page. The orthopedic surgeon actively tweets, checks in regularly on FourSquare, and maintains a GooglePlus profile. And he does it for his patients.
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Plus91
“A large part of managing a patient over a long period of time is communicating with the patient. All old (follow up) cases in medical practices have niche requirements and expectations from their doctors. A satisfied patient is a doctor’s most powerful marketing asset. Healthcare professionals should strive to provide all old (follow up) cases with special features to improve quality of service, which in turn will increase the Patient Satisfaction Index.
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Craig Garner, iHealtBeat
“Americans love their privacy. And yet, as the ever-increasing trend of social networking illustrates, they also love to share the facts of their lives. As a result, defining privacy can be tricky in this modern age and often depends on the venue in which information is presented and the form it takes.
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Jean DerGurahian, Health IT Pulse
“There is room for Twitter and Facebook in hospitals, as long as such social media tools are used with caution, say information managers.
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Power Your Practice
“The healthcare industry is facing a monumental shift in how it handles information. The paper records, faxes and phones calls are being replaced with electronic health records, emails and instant messages. As the industry transitions to technology-enabled health care, it could learn a lot from how Facebook built its system to evolve, engage and connect its users.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A new Facebook application, developed in a Tel Aviv University (TAU) lab, is poised to serve as a better indicator of how infections spread among populations.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“Some pharmaceutical companies shut down Facebook pages, while others monitored and deleted visitor comments, after the social media site on Aug. 15 stopped giving drug companies the option of preventing public comments on their pages.
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Christian Torres, The Washington Post
“Facebook and the pharmaceutical industry have had an uneasy partnership in recent years. Many drug companies didn’t join the site until Facebook gave them a privilege that others do not have — blocking the public’s ability to openly comment on a page Wall.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The British Medical Association has issued new guidance to doctors and medical students, advising them not to accept Facebook requests from current or former patients.
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Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“It’s understandable that a healthcare delivery system would have a mindset and business objective to keep referrals within its network of care providers. Businesses have a right and an obligation to try to hang on to their customers.
It’s a different issue whether closed or walled garden HIT is an acceptable means toward that end.
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Healthcare IT News
“A study released this week shows that 68 percent of Facebook users have never shared – and never plan to share – personal health information on the social networking site.
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Kevin Pho, KevinMD
“I’ve heard that a few academic medical centers, the identities which I will keep anonymous, are advising incoming medical residents to stay off social media. Meaning, they have to close their blogs, and shutter their Twitter or Facebook accounts.
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Mike Miliard, The Mobility Blog
“Sean Nolan, chief architect and general manager of Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, broke the news with palpable excitement in a blog post last Tuesday.
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Johannes Caspar, Stiftung Gesundheit Blog
“Soziale Netzwerke boomen. Auch einige Ärzte und Vertreter anderer Heilberufe sind dort aktiv. Doch lauern dabei erhebliche und oft kaum erkennbare Gefahren für den Datenschutz. Insbesondere Facebook sammelt über sein „Freunde-Finder-Verfahren“ gewaltige Datenmengen und berechnet daraus Beziehungsgeflechte.
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e-Health-com News
“Patientendaten tauchen momentan vermehrt bei Facebook auf. Darauf hat Johannes Caspar, der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, hingewiesen.
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Jennifer Adaeze Anyaegbunam, KevinMD
“I’ve read a number of recent articles on social media and medical professionalism. The post in the New York Times about physicians and Facebook prompted me to think about my own presence online.
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