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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

They generally start with patients sharing experiences and information with each other, so they can learn more about their disease, treatment opportunities and how to best balance managing the disease with living their life. Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional.

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

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HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It is an overarching piece of legislation relating to health information in the United States. The standards on disclosures of protected health information are particularly relevant. Health plans, like HMOs and employer health plans.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

Attending the session “A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network“ at SxSW last year really opened my eyes to the social media obstacles healthcare professionals face. Here are three social media obstacles health care providers face and the underlying opportunities each present.

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Obamacare And Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) health insurance exchanges have opened and social media is being used to both promote and debate the new law. GetCovered Obamacare Square: Health Care Tries to Go Viral. What Social Media Can Teach Us About The Affordable Care Act (Or Is It Obamacare?).

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. Attending the session “A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network“ at SxSW last year really opened my eyes to the social media obstacles healthcare professionals face. This originally ran on Nov.

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HIPAA Privacy Rule: Is Texting a Violation?

The Realtime Report

Keep reading to find out how your practice can ensure privacy for your patients while still communicating and keeping everyone informed. In 1996 Congress passed HIPAA , the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This act ensured that all Americans can keep their health insurance when they change jobs.

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Importance of Social Media Training in Healthcare Industry

Social Media Marketing

Social Media today has an undeniable power of spreading information, growing the business and developing community. Group of 18 to 24 year old are 2 xs more likely to use social media for health-related discussions than the group of 45 to 54 years. 60% of doctors say social media improves the quality of care delivered to patients.