{"id":1959,"date":"2011-09-29T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-09-29T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:38:11","slug":"thursday-thoughts-distributing-personal-medical-information-via-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/09\/thursday-thoughts-distributing-personal-medical-information-via-social-networks.html","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Thoughts | Distributing personal medical information via social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><center>From a friend&#8217;s Facebook status:<\/center><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Times have definitely changed. I am filling out my son&#8217;s paperwork for his well check with his new pediatrician and there is a spot to put your Facebook or Twitter account down to receive non urgent info about the patient!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are clearly moving in the direction of <a title=\"Medical Education Monday \u2013 Social Media\" href=\"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2011\/05\/medical-education-monday-social-media.html\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> and digital information, so I would love to hear your thoughts on the following <strong>(answers should assume consent from both parent and physician to use this type of interaction for <em>non-urgent<\/em> medical information):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/view_photog.php?photogid=2354');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/view_photog.php?photogid=2354\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"Social Information\" src=\"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5763319ebew8do5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5763319ebew8do5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5763319ebew8do5-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it legal?<\/li>\n<li>What about ethical?<\/li>\n<li>What considerations would be required regarding this interaction?<\/li>\n<li>What about privacy and security issues*?<\/li>\n<li>Would all these considerations be a problem if there&#8217;s been consent from all parties?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>And most importantly&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a patient, would you consent to transferring non-urgent medical information this way?<\/li>\n<li>What about as a physician or other healthcare provider?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><em>*To play devil&#8217;s advocate, what makes these interactions any less safe than &#8220;snail-mailing&#8221; non-urgent info? Theoretically, can&#8217;t almost anyone open your mailbox and mail? Doesn&#8217;t snail-mail go through way more hands to get to someone than email? What makes them any less secure than cell phone voicemails? We learned from <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/phone-hacking\/8795857\/Phone-hacking-11-million-News-International-emails-handed-to-police.html');\" title=\"Phone Hacking Scandal\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/phone-hacking\/8795857\/Phone-hacking-11-million-News-International-emails-handed-to-police.html\" target=\"_blank\">this incident<\/a> that cell phone hacking is incredibly easy if you know the right people and technology. What do you think the differences are?<\/h5>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<strong>Image:<\/strong>\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/view_photog.php?photogid=2354');\" title=\"Kookkai_nak's Images\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/view_photog.php?photogid=2354\" target=\"_blank\">Free Digital Images | Kookkai_nak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a friend&#8217;s Facebook status: Times have definitely changed. I am filling out my son&#8217;s paperwork for his well check with his new pediatrician and there is a spot to put your Facebook or Twitter account down to receive non urgent info about the patient! We are clearly moving in the direction of social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,67],"tags":[250,252,256,254,255,259,242,257,251,530,258,253],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5763319ebew8do5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}