Posted on April 19th, 2013 by David Harlow
The American College of Physicians (ACP) Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee, the ACP Council of Associates, and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) Special Committee on Ethics and Professionalism spent eighteen months developing a policy statement on online medical professionalism, and it was published in April 2013 in the ACP’s Annals of Internal Medicine. [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2012 by Admin
Dan Goldman, Mayo Clinic legal counsel, and member of the Internal Advisory Board for Mayo Clinic’s Center for Social Media (#MCCSM), discusses social media in the November 2012 issue of the Twin Cities Business Journal. Dan sees great business value in social media sites. “Our brand has been built through word of mouth, and social [...]
Posted on March 9th, 2011 by Admin
We’ve all bought Groupons for a wide variety of goods and services — dinner at a new restaurant, a periodical subscription, clothing, a hot air balloon ride — but most of us have not bought a Groupon for health care services. Thus far, the health care offerings via Groupon seem to be limited mostly to [...]
View full entry | 11 Comments »
Tags: Groupon, LivingSocial
Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Admin
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series by Mayo Clinic attorney Dan Goldman on legal and employee policy issues in social media for healthcare organizations. Specific Issues you should consider addressing in your policy—all employees. 1. Communicate your company’s stance on employee use of social media during work time. Philosophies on this run the [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Admin
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series by Mayo Clinic attorney Dan Goldman on legal and employee policy issues in social media for healthcare organizations. General Thoughts on Drafting Your Company’s Social Media Policy: There is no “one size fits all.” Social media policies are as much a reflection of corporate culture as they [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Admin
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series by Mayo Clinic attorney Dan Goldman on legal and employee policy issues in social media for healthcare organizations. What’s Unique About Healthcare Social Media? Privacy. HIPAA and state privacy laws make social media particularly challenging in healthcare. As well, these strict privacy requirements mean that the stakes [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2010 by Admin
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series on legal and policy issues related to social media. This series is contributed by Dan Goldman, the attorney who oversees these issues for Mayo Clinic, and comes from a presentation he gave recently to the Minnesota Health Law Institute. You can interact with Dan on Twitter [...]
Tags: Dan Goldman, FB, Health care, Healthcare, Legal, Mayo Clinic, MySpace, social media
Employee Social Media Policies After NLRB Appointments Invalidated by Federal Court … Everything You Know Is Wrong?
Posted on February 13th, 2013 by David Harlow
In the latest chapter of some inside-the-Beltway wrangling over the validity of recess appointments by President Obama of National Labor Relations Board members, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held the appointments to be invalid, thus invalidating all NLRB decisions in which these members had participated. These include, of course, some decisions touching on the [...]
View full entry | 5 Comments >>
Tags: comment policies, David Harlow, Employee Policies, federal court, Legal, legal issues, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB