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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. Regardless of generation, most health care professionals express concerns about not allowing social media usage to diminish the time they have to be available for in-person patient conversations. So…I’m curious.

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A Literature Review of Social Media Use by Health Care Providers

Socialmedia.biz

A recently published literature review aims to shed light on social media use worldwide and to discuss how it has been used as an essential tool in the health care industry from the perspective of healthcare professionals.

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HIPAA and Social Media: 5 Tips to Stay Compliant

Hootsuite

The standards on disclosures of protected health information are particularly relevant. Source: CDC That means organizations covered by HIPAA cannot publish or share any protected health information on social media without the relevant individual’s specific, written authorization. Who is covered by HIPAA social media rules?

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How COVID-19 has changed social media engagement

Sprout Social

Around nearly the same time we published this, many individuals and organizations began working remotely , sheltering in place and otherwise changing their behaviors to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Earlier this year, we presented our regular update with the latest data on the best times to post on social media.

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Presidential Elections, Pandemics, Natural Disasters: When to Pause Your Social Media Channels

agora pulse

If your company is directly involved in the situation, avoid publishing any social media posts that could mislead followers or lead to a PR crisis. Yet in some cases, it’s a better idea to keep publishing consistently instead. First, log in to your social media dashboard and pause any relevant publishing queues.

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When The Supremes Rang My Bell

Waxing UnLyrical

Because to be a part of the public relations profession… … working for an agency that does a ton of (great) work in the health care area… … be physically in D.C… You just read When The Supremes Rang My Bell , originally posted on Waxing UnLyrical , published by Shonali Burke.

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The Next Big Thing in Social Networks

Socialized

With the introduction of Foursquare and other location-based services, we started publishing our precise location data, and now with Blippy , our friends can see our credit card purchases as we make them. Crowdsourced medical care may be the answer to our current health care crisis.