Health Law

#hcsm means Healthcare Communications and Social Media: Last night's legal edition was fast and furious

By David Harlow

Tom Stitt and Dana Lewis host a weekly "tweetchat" on healthcare communications and social media, known as healthsocmed or hcsm.  Last night, Daniel Goldman, legal counsel at The Mayo Clinic, aka @danielg280, and I, aka @healthblawg, were lawyers-on-the-spot for a special legal edition.  There were interesting questions raised regarding social media, patients, providers, privacy, HIPAA, and lots more.  There were innumerable cross-conversations going on.  One participant noted later that over 900 tweets had been posted in the #hcsm tweetstream in the hour or so allotted (about twice the usual volume), which made it impossible to follow all of them in real time, unfortunately.  I had the chance to look over the stream afterwards, and offer some follow-up responses to questions not fully answered during the session. 

@HITshrink posted some organized excerpts from the stream on his blog; check them out for a more orderly taste of the experience.

Kudos to Tom and Dana for making this happen.

David Harlow
The Harlow Group LLC
Health Care Law and Consulting

Full post as published by HealthBlawg on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).