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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional. Boomers are often the polar opposite worrying about the time required, technical concerns, and potential privacy issues that may arise. Gen-X doctors seem to bridge that digital-divide, trying to figure out the right balance.

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

Hootsuite

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. For example, in 2022, the HHS Office for Civil Rights issued a $50,000 fine against a dental practice. The original complaint used a pseudonym.

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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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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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Proving Value vs ROI in PR

Proactive Report

Here’s one example of how it is being done in the health care sector. Averting crises and mitigating reputation issues. The Progressive Insurance refusal to pay out a claim last year lost them more than 1000 customers. When the “Dell Hell” debacle occurred their stock price dropped dramatically.

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How Visuals are Telling the NAIAS Story

Convince & Convert

Overall, there were more than 950,000 Twitter mentions during the hour-long speech : While Obama addressed a host of issues, it did not include the sharp focus on gun violence that many expected. Innovation is the Top #JPM16 Issue. Highlights?

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Things to Know About Telehealth Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

Tweaklibrary

In the last month, we’ve had everyone from the president of the United States down to local governors to CEOs of health care companies all saying use telemedicine as a first line of defense.”. Getting in touch with health professionals via the internet & taking advice is quite intimidating for a lot of us.