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Mobile Health and HIPAA Compliance

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 …

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Reputation-Defending Gaining Momentum as Importance Realized

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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Tracking Physicians at Conferences

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 …

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Get Rid of Creepy Chrome Ads

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 …

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