Category: AHLA Connections: Legal Implications of Health Care Social Media

Martin Trussell
The current issue of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Connections magazine features an article I co-authored with fellow AHLA health lawyer, Jody Joiner, on the impact of social media use in health care.
The article, Risky Business: Treating Tweeting the Symptoms of Social Media (PDF version), is featured in the March 2010 issue […]

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
Today Jody Joiner and I presented at the AHLA Hospitals and Health Systems Institute on the use of social media by hospitals and health care providers. We provided an overview of social media use by hospitals and health care providers, discussed the pros/cons of using social media in the health care environment, […]

dleyva
The Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the Judicial Conference of the United States has issued a memo regarding Juror Use of Electronic Communication Technologies.
At its December 2009 meeting, the Judicial Conference Committee endorsed a set of suggested jury instructions that federal district judges should consider using to help deter jurors […]

Jaan Sidorov
Over the next couple of months the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be hosting the Exploring Privacy: A Roundtable Services.
The roundtable discussions are day-long public roundtable discussions to explore the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of 21st century technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data.
The FTC indicates […]

John Goodman
Today I am giving a presentation with Jud DeLoss on the topic of “PHRs, Health 2.0 and the Impact of Social Media on Health Care” at the American Health Lawyers Association 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
As a part of the presentation we are sharing the slides from the presentation with the […]

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 […]

jingemi
a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aXjomoqIBUo/Sb0Vz2BAFOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/xAe7iIICJLw/s1600-h/ha.gif” imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aXjomoqIBUo/Sb0Vz2BAFOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/xAe7iIICJLw/s320/ha.gif” style=”cursor: move; width: 172px; height: 63px;” border=”0″ //aThe a href=”http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/vol28/issue2/”March/April 2009 Issue/a of a href=”http://content.healthaffairs.org/”Health Affairs/a concentrates on the topic of Stimulating Health Information Technology. Although I am not a subscriber to Health Affairs the issue looks to have some great […]

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 […]

Martin Trussell
Two case studies pointing out additional medical uses for Twitter from Jennifer Texada at a href=”http://jennifersreport.blogspot.com/”How to Go Web 2.0/a.br /br /Her post, a href=”http://jennifersreport.blogspot.com/2008/12/health-20-makes-it-to-twitter.html”Health 2.0 Makes it to Twitter/a, discusses two separate cases. The first involved the use of Twitter by medical professionals seeking real time advice with a diagnosis. […]