Hospitals must create detailed social media security policies to help ensure personal health information never gets posted, says Sharon Finney, corporate data security officer at Adventist Health System.
It's been a busy news week, and once again as I scan our sites I see stories that have relevant threads for anybody interested in information security, risk management or privacy.
A California hospital will fire five employees and discipline another because they used social media to post personal discussions about hospital patients.
Think twice the next time a contact tries to "friend" you on Facebook or "follows" you on Twitter. It may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to scrutinize your employment history or examine your personal references.
Social networking can provide physicians with an effective way to communicate with patients without raising security concerns, says Jeff Livingston, M.D.
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