The American Medical Association announced that it has adopted and issued a new policy offering guidance to physicians on the use of social media. The new policy focuses on helping physicians to "maintain a positive online presence and preserve the integrity of the patient-physician relationship."
The press release indicates that the policy encourages physicians to:
- Use privacy settings to safeguard personal information and content to the fullest extent possible on social networking sites.
- Routinely monitor their own Internet presence to ensure that the personal and professional information on their own sites and content posted about them by others, is accurate and appropriate.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship when interacting with patients online and ensure patient privacy and confidentiality is maintained.
- Consider separating personal and professional content online.
- Recognize that actions online and content posted can negatively affect their reputations among patients and colleagues, and may even have consequences for their medical careers.
Medicine and law ...and the Internet.
The future is a mystery. I'm starting to worry about what this is leading but care primarily!
wtorek, 16 listopada 2010
środa, 10 listopada 2010
with a special dedication:
You can be anyone you want to be on line.
So many of us hide behind photographs - some are not even of us. We flirt. We bend the truth. We lurk.
Some of us remember a time when there was no Internet. What did we chose for armor then? Are we now bolder because we can be - behind the computer screen?
Sometimes people try to be someone they are not; the fantasy of actually succeeding is intoxicating. The fantasy drives us to act in ways we never would in person.
I find it fascinating that most of us are braver behind the keys. I wonder - what would it take for us to behave that way in our everyday lives off line and why don't we do so? If our answer is that we would not behave in such a way other than on line, it begs the question: What are we so ashamed of?
So many of us hide behind photographs - some are not even of us. We flirt. We bend the truth. We lurk.
Some of us remember a time when there was no Internet. What did we chose for armor then? Are we now bolder because we can be - behind the computer screen?
Sometimes people try to be someone they are not; the fantasy of actually succeeding is intoxicating. The fantasy drives us to act in ways we never would in person.
I find it fascinating that most of us are braver behind the keys. I wonder - what would it take for us to behave that way in our everyday lives off line and why don't we do so? If our answer is that we would not behave in such a way other than on line, it begs the question: What are we so ashamed of?
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