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Crushing Complexity from Healthcare
In: Health Concerns
11 Mar 2010Early in my career at Microsoft, I traveled around the United States giving keynotes at healthcare executive events organized by our company. For some of those events I was joined on the podium by health industry author, lecturer, executive, physician…(read more)
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 of AHLA Connections (Vol.14, No. 3, March 2010), a health lawyer magazine for the health and life sciences law community.
Microsoft Healthcare Executive Event
In: Health Concerns
10 Mar 2010I usually dont use this space to promote local/regional events. After all, HealthBlog has a worldwide audience of readers. However, Im making an exception because the event I want to promote takes place on home turf and it was after all…(read more)
Lesson for Hospitals and Health Care Providers: Photos of Shark Bite Victim
In: Health Care Law
5 Mar 2010Martin 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 various hospital employees took photos of a shark bite victim when he arrived in the emergency room. The article discusses the action taken by the hospital in response to the incident. Another article indicates that the photos were emailed to others.
One of my favorite events of the year is Microsoft TechFest . The two-day event hosted by my colleagues at Microsoft Research opened today. As usual, I was blown away by what I saw. I cant go into great detail, or show you any pictures. …(read more)
OK. The cat is out of the bag. I can finally tell you about one of the meetings I had while I was in Japan last week. The meeting was with Panasonic, and I was among a handful of people to get a sneak peek at Panasonics new convertible…(read more)
While I was winging my way back from Japan two things were particularly on my mind. First was the culmination of a very successful week of meetings with health industry executives and government leaders and advisors in Japan. This included…(read more)
HITECH Law Blog
In: Health Care Law
1 Mar 2010A warm welcome to fellow AHLA member and health law blogger, Kathie McDonald-McClure.
I just ran across her blog, HITECH Law Blog. She focuses the blog on health information technology, privacy and security and the blog was named after the HITECH Act. Looks like a great addition to the health law blogosphere.
AHLA Hospital’s Friend or Foe: The Age of Social Media and Health 2.0
In: Health Care Law
27 Feb 2010Today 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, presented case studies of the risks and legal implications and did a short role play involving tweets in the context of a medical negligence case. We also provided those attending with recommendations on developing social media guidelines and policies.
To show the speed and ease of using social media tools to spread information, news and photos we we did some live shots during the presentations using an iPhone that were then loaded up to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. We then pulled up the posts and tweets at the end of our hour presentation.
Healthcare ICT in Japan—A view from the top
In: Health Concerns
25 Feb 2010There are some 8000 hospitals in Japan; a number that is surprising when you consider that the population of this country is approximately 120 million people. That adds up to a lot of hospital beds per capita! Ten percent of the population…(read more)
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