By Jenn Riggle Just in time for the holidays, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces HIPAA privacy and security rules on behalf of the Department of Health & Human Services, announced it is ramping up its enforcement activities. While nothing to celebrate, these audits are definitely worth preparing for. In the past, OCR [...]
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New Guidance Gives RNs a Social Media Safety Net
September 22, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Jenn Riggle Are the nation’s 2.6 million RNs invisible? Nurses have always been on the front line providing patient care. However, when hospitals develop their social media policies, they’ve often thought about how they should be customized to meet the needs of physicians- but somehow, they’ve forgotten about nurses. Maybe it’s not surprising that [...]
Are Your Doctors Social Media Cowboys?
August 5, 2010 – 7:00 am
By Jenn Riggle Hospitals can’t afford to let their doctors become cowboys – especially when it comes to social media. Your docs are probably eager to set up their own Facebook pages, if they haven’t already done so. But it’s important for hospital marketing departments to work with their employed docs and guide them as [...]
Foursquare in Healthcare?
May 27, 2010 – 8:00 am
By Jenn Riggle It seems like every day another company enters the geolocation race. Google’s Buzz, Gowalla, MyTown, Yelp and even Facebook are jumping into the fray. But the company to beat is Foursquare. The question I have to ask: Does Foursquare make sense for healthcare? To answer this question, I employed the tried and [...]
Reports of Privacy’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
May 6, 2010 – 7:00 am
By Jenn Riggle Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made news earlier this year when he announced that the age of privacy is over. But from all appearances, this is certainly not the case. In fact, the age of privacy may have just begun. At last month’s f8 conference, Facebook unveiled its “instant personalization” program [...]
Nothing’s permanent, not even death.
January 20, 2010 – 9:00 am
By Wyatt Wood It seems to be a reoccurring trend, at least in the blogosphere, to step back and evaluate the balance that time spent online (largely spent in social networks) affects our lives. This desire for balance is a good move; considering the research showing damaging physiological changes created by increasing use of social networks and the associated [...]
A Tale of Two HIPAA Violations
January 7, 2010 – 10:58 am
By Jenn Riggle It sounds like something out of a Charles Dickens’ novel. While most of us were busy preparing for the holidays, two stories were unfolding in different parts of the country where hospital employees lost their jobs because they of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations. The first story takes place [...]
Are You My Mother? And Social Networks
November 11, 2009 – 9:00 am
by: Wyatt Wood Real life relationships are complex enough, add the digital medium with a sprinkle of ego and the relationship points become more complicated. In a social network defining relationships beyond friendship is a tough problem to solve. In the story “Are You My Mother?” by P. D. Eastman, the baby bird explores the [...]
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