According to the Guardian newspaper, the current UK guidelines state that “Doctors must not “friend” their patients on Facebook.”
Should a doctor block his/her patients on Google+ then? What about Twitter?
Social media platforms, their use, and the perception of the ways they are used are all changing. The ban of professional use of the [...]
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Should a doctor block his/her patients on Google+ or Twitter?
Should we worry about physician privacy in the EHR era?
Source: Margalit Gur-Arie, KevinMD Content: “As we move to electronic health records (EHR), the debates over security and privacy are becoming more frequent and more poignant.
We of course have HIPAA laws on the books and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has a Tiger team assembled to recommend privacy and security [...]
Doctors should blog with their real name – agree or disagree?
From KevinMD:”Martin Young still has “nagging doubts about doctors who post blogs or replies about healthcare issues without giving their names.My blog as an extension of who I am as a doctor, putting a carefully considered face to the experience of caring for the sick, as a means of drawing attention to issues that do [...]
Electronic Personal Health Records: Should Doctors Worry?
Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP, Director, The Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, describes many ethical twists in electronic health records.
10 things you should know about your medical record
www.ruthannrusso.com – Dr. Ruthann Russo discusses 10 things you should know about your medical record as a critical part of your healthcare and planning. For a free sample chapter of 7 Steps to Your Best Possible Healthcare or to purchase a copy of the book please visit http
What You Should Know About Hipaa and Hipaa Compliance
HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a federal law enacted in 1996 as an attempt at incremental health care reform and experts consider it the most significant health care legislation since Medicare in 1965. HIPAA intent is to reform the health sector, reducing costs, streamlining processes, and administrative costs, and improve [...]