Category: hospital

Martin Trussell
Martin Memorial too mum: Hospital staff violated privacy of shark victim, an article from the Palm Beach Post. The article highlights the impact ubiquitous mobile devices with cameras are having on our society and the potential liability risks associated with the use/misuse of these devices by health care employees.
The article indicates that […]

Martin Trussell
Although it is cold today in West Virginia - I’m hoping it will be hot in Florida in February.
I thought I would take a moment on this cold wintry day to write about the hot health topics that will be discussed at the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Hospitals and Health Systems […]

Jaan Sidorov
Interesting Tweet HIPAA Breach story coming out of Mississippi involving Governor Haley Barbour. The incident involved a response to Governor Barbour’s tweet by a University Medical Center employee.
Ves Dimov, M.D. at Clinical Cases and Images Blog posts about the story - Single tweet by hospital employee to Mississippi Governor violates HIPAA and […]

jingemi
a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://ebennett.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hospsometrends21.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 251px;” src=”http://ebennett.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hospsometrends21.jpg” alt=”” border=”0″ //aEd Bennett at a href=”http://ebennett.org/”Found In Cache/a does a wonderful job of giving us a statistical glimpse of the increasing (skyrocketing) use of social media tools (YouTube, Facebook and Twitter) by […]

Martin Trussell
a href=”http://ebennett.org/hospitals-that-use-social-networks/”Great post/a listing the U.S. Hospitals using social networking tools like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Check out the a href=”http://ebennett.org/hsnl/”complete list/a of 150 hospitals and a related a href=”http://ebennett.org/hsnl/hsnl-faq/”FAQ about the Hospital Social Networking List/a at a href=”http://ebennett.org/”Found In Cache: Notes from a Hospital Web Manager/a authored by a href=”http://ebennett.org/about/”Ed Bennett/a.br […]

Scott MacStravic
Just pick up the latest news from Greg Piche of the Holland & Hart Healthcare Law Blog about the pending libel lawsuit against an anonymous blogger filed by Paris Regional Medical Center, a subsidiary of Essent. For some background on the case check out Jeff Drummond’s past post Hospital Sues Blogger.
The […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
Practical advice from Tony at Hospital Impact on the question of “should hospitals blog?” Good advice for anyone thinking about starting a health related or business blog.
I regularly follow both Nick Jacobs at Nick’s Blog and Paul Levy at Running a Hospital cited in Tony’s post. Both are examples of extremely successful blogging […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
An attorney I work with sent me a link to the following Fox News article, Doctors, Hospital Workers Suspended for Viewing George Clooney’s Medical Records. For more news check out Google News search.
The article indicates that 40 employees at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, NJ were suspended for violating the hospital’s HIPAA […]

RCoffield@fsblaw.com
NetDoc now as a mashup of Google Maps and HHS hospital data. As Shahid Shah says, these types of tools takes mountains of data and makes it more accessible and easier to digest by the average public health consumer. Here is the view/data of hospitals that are 100 miles from Charleston, West Virginia.
Here […]