Tag: twitter
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Securing Social Media For Healthcare
Social media sites—such as Facebook and Twitter—can be a tempting outlet for healthcare employees to discuss patient information that should be private. Breaches of information security and patient privacy may or not be intentional, and they can be committed by an employee, a contractor, a temporary employee, or an external party. However, the repercussions to…
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HHS shouldn’t allow cuts to alter health IT safety efforts
With all of the attention the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference in New Orleans this week is receiving, did you also know that this week is Patient Safety Awareness Week? Somehow that's not getting the same fanfare in my emails or on my Twitter feed. While the two events are not connected, though, each has…