Organizations today approach social media one of three ways: They embrace it, ignore it or are immobilized by it. The key to success is to manage the transition.
To ensure patient privacy, healthcare organizations need to adopt clear-cut social media policies and educate staff about how to comply, says Jonathan Teich, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University.
Healthcare organizations need to broaden their efforts to educate staff about privacy and security issues to include warnings about inappropriate uses of social media, a Harvard professor advises.
Fear of data loss and inappropriate behavior leads many employers to introduce strict controls on access to social media sites. Here are the six essentials of an effective social media policy.
There are two trends that information security leaders should watch closely: The growing sophistication of fraudsters, and the concurrent "consumerization" of the workplace.
The official federal tally of major healthcare information breaches is now "new and improved," with a searchable format and the names of private practices revealed.
Those involved in forming health information exchanges recently got yet another reminder that they had better pay serious attention to privacy and security.
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