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Social media can be a minefield for pharma companies given the FDA’s requirements to keep product information fairly balanced and promote only approved uses of drugs.
Until now, Facebook has helped drug companies control the information on their sponsored pages by disabling the comment function. That’s supposed to end today. As the Washington Post […]
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Accepting Facebook friend requests from current or former patients is a lousy idea, the British Medical Association is telling physicians.
The group’s new social media guidance notes that “because of the power imbalance that can exist in any doctor-patient relationship,” it’s important to establish a professional boundary. And that can be tough to do […]
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Welcome How to Use Social Media session students and others.
I hope you enjoyed my presentation during the afternoon health care social media sessions at the 2011 American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting in Boston. The health care social media sessions this afternoon were a great introduction to a variety of practical and legal […]
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Here is my social media class at the AHLA Annual Meeting.
Read more this great post here
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The Twitter Trap by Bill Keller (@NYTKeller), Executive Editor of The New York Times captures many of the thoughts I have been having lately about the impact social media and technology is having on our society. Where does it end? What will be the future? How will it change us as humans? As […]
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Today the American Medical Association announced that it has adopted and issued a new policy offering guidance to physicians on the use of social media. The new policy focuses on helping physicians to “maintain a positive online presence and preserve the integrity of the patient-physician relationship.”
The press release does not include a link […]
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Out of Connecticut comes an interesting case involving the use of social media in the workplace and its collision with employee protected concerted activity and employee freedom to associate without fear of employer retaliation under the National Labor Relations Act. The New York Times article, Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post, provides […]
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Great insight and advice from Bryan Vartabedian, M.D., the author of 33 Charts on “How to Speak to Physicians About Social Media.”
Dr. V was responding to a request from Susannah Fox, Associate Director - Digital Strategy at Pew Internet & American Life Project, who will be speaking on a panel at the American […]
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Brian Peterson posts on a fascinating West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals decision involving the use of social media between a juror and defendant and the issue of disclosure of such connections during voir dire.
In State v. Dellinger, No 3573 (W.Va. Supr. Ct. June 3, 2010) (PDF version) the West Virginia Supreme Court […]
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Martin Trussell
On May 4, 2010, I will be participating in a teleconference on The Intersection of Social Media and Human Subjects Research. The teleconference is co-sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association Health Information Technology, Life Sciences and Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers Practice Groups.
The moderator for the teleconference will be Karl […]
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