Medical Association of the State of Alabama

Tag: social media

Tracking A Patient’s Every Move: HIPAA Compliance Risk

Apr 17, 2024

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Russell Sellers

in HIPAA, Legal Watch, Technology

By: Kelli Fleming with Burr & Forman LLP The Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (”OCR”) recently published a guidance bulletin addressing the use of online tracking technologies by entities covered by HIPAA, including but not limited physician practices. A tracking technology is used to collect information about how online users interact with…
Social Media & Electronic Communication: Asset or Liability

Sep 27, 2016

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admin

in Management

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the 2015 Winter issue of Alabama Medicine magazine. You may have heard the adage, “Don’t put anything on the Internet that you wouldn’t want tacked to a bulletin board in the Town Square.” Thanks to smartphones and their applications, that adage is easier than ever to ignore…