As a follow up to Can I Completely Hide What Friends Post on My Wall, today I’m going to answer a related question, which is ‘can I stop a certain person on Facebook from seeing my status updates, without un-friending them’? The answer is yes, and it can come in very handy. Facebook will use your …
With the unprecedented popularity of mobile devices, there’s no way for healthcare industry to avoid the issue of practitioners using mobile devices for communication that will sometimes include PHI. With that, the first questions that come up are often about HIPAA, and now HITECH, compliance. Writer Neil Versel spoke with Diversinet’s Senior VP for Corporate …
TIME ran an article on Tuesday about repairing a damaged online reputation. What was once strictly thought of for celebrities, online reputation is now relevant to everyone, and particularly physicians. Many patients use the internet to research their doctors or potential doctors. Although most physicians never think about online reputation until they’re faced with negative …
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Dr. Wes has done several interesting blog posts recently about the “tag and release” tactics that some physician conferences are using. He says: “Recently, a disturbing trend of monitoring physician quality and accountability has taken another ominous turn: tracking physician’s movements at scientific conferences (so called “tag and release”) using RFID tags imbedded in attendees …
As good a browser as Chrome is, the ad tracking – and very personalized banner ad choices – can add a particularly creepy tone to any internet surfing session. If you visit a website in Chrome, and leave without buying something, you may see ads from that site follow you around to other websites. Check …
If your practice has a blog, that’s great. It’s likely helping your online reputation by providing fresh content regularly, and keeping your website looking up to date. Quite a few practices have good blogs these days, but some of them are missing a big opportunity. Some practices have no way for a visitor on their …
Any website that that collects data about you should have a privacy policy. And almost every website you visit collects some form of data. Although very few people actually read them, 968 of the top 1000 websites have posted privacy policies. Mashable recently wrote an article on privacy policies, and shared some interesting statistics. Among their more …
The good news is your Gmail account gives you an enormous amount of flexibility in managing your email. The bad news is some of the most interesting features are those you’d never know about until you start trying things out, or reading through the gmail help pages. Which – since Gmail works quite well without …
Google Reader is a tool that allows you to keep up with new content from your favorite blogs and news websites, without having to visit each of those websites. You choose what sites you’d like news from, and Google Reader pulls all those stories into one place. As you scroll through your reader, the stories …
