| Confidentiality Rules Apply to Social Media Too |
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| Written by The Buzz | |||
| Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:43 | |||
The same rules of doctor-patient confidentiality apply on social media as they do in a conversation at a coffee shop, notes a recent article from Healthcare IT News. The article explains how a Rhode Island doctor lost her clinical privileges and received a fine of $500 all because she posted identifiable patient information on her Facebook account. | |||
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About the Author: Jeff Merron is a full-time freelance editor, journalist, and copywriter who has written for the New York Times Magazine, ESPN.com, Slate, Byte Magazine, Macworld, Consumers Digest, and many other national publications. He's also a regular contributor to IT Business Insider and 108, a baseball magazine. He has a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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