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• Health Care Social Media Legal Issues and Strategy Webinar

  Today's HIPAA and Your Social Media Strategy webinar, which I presented together with Jamie Verkamp of (e)Merge, was a success. We had a good turnout, interesting questions and engaging discussion. Here is a version of…

• An ounce of prevention

  Today's Boston Globe reports on a feature of the Massachusetts universal health care law that may be replicated at the national level: MassHealth -- the Massachusetts Medicaid program -- has been covering the costs for…

• Son of HIPAA Breach Notification Rules and Business Associate Requirements: Who's Ready?

  HIMMS Analytics surveyed about 250 hospital and business associate representatives, and came up with some figures to back up what we all knew in our hearts: Most hospitals are gearing up for compliance with the…

• Social Media Session at Oklahoma Hospital Association Annual Meeting

  Yesterday I had the pleasure of sharing the podium -- at least virtually -- at the Oklahoma Hospital Association's annual meeting with two leaders in the health care social media sphere, Ed Bennett of the…

• Son of HIPAA Breach Notification Rules

  Health care providers: If your patient records aren't already stored digitally, they are likely to be digitized soon. There is a tremendous push by the federal government -- as well as by some private payors…

• David Harlow quoted in "Social Networking 101 for Physicians" piece in Mass Medical Law Report

  More and more physicians are exploring the use of social media in their practices, and the Massachusetts Medical Law report ran a piece on Social Networking 101 for Physicians recently, quoting Kevin Pho of KevinMD,…

• HIPAA and your social media strategy - Webinar November 18, 2009

  Physicians, practice managers and other health care providers and managers considering a foray into social media, you are invited to join The Harlow Group and (e)Merge for a webinar discussing this timely and important topic.…

• FDA and social media: The regulated community's current obsession overlooks off-label promotions by the advocacy community

  This morning I received a tweet exhorting me to learn about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for autoimmune diseases. (Naltrexone, by the way, is approved by the FDA only to treat alcoholism.) Within a few clicks,…

• Health Law Basics Plus: Two-day seminar in Boston this week

  Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education puts on its annual two-day extravaganza introduction to health law this week (November 4-5). I'll be speaking on post-acute care, and there is an all-star panel of speakers filling out the…

• Connected Health Symposium 2009 Wrap-up

  I attended the Connected Health Symposium last week in Boston and got a healthy dose of the past, present and future in health care connectivity, connectedness and connections. As always, I enjoyed connecting in person…