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Smartphone and Social Media:

We Can but Dare We?

Info Systems in Health Care

The cliche “Big as life” (big, very large) are what the Smartphones has become in today’s society because they occupy our lives, jobs, school, entertainment, and how we communicate. The Smartphone is one of the many technology necessity that makes it easier and quicker to connect with family and friends near and afar. Because there are many opportunities and challenges with the use of Smartphones in the healthcare field not all are beneficial. The lost will be greater than the gain of benefits when patients and healthcare workers well-being and livelihood are being compromised. Even though Smartphones have some advantages and disadvantages, but the jury is still out to whether the advantages of the Smartphone out weigh the disadvantages in healthcare and social Media. Especially, when Smartphones are being abused and misused on the job at the expense of patient privacy.

For example, a 23-year-old model admitted to Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital last June for excessive alcohol consumption. An emergency department physician allegedly took photos of her in which she appears anxious and disheveled. Another example, an off-duty employee of Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., photographed an attractive female patient in the emergency department and posted the image on Facebook, with the blandly pervy caption “I like what I like.” He and several colleagues implicated in the misconduct are now free to seek job opportunities elsewhere(Kinsey 2014). In these incident a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal privacy and security rules that has...

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... personal belongings. I think Ben Franklin summed it up nicely “Bad gains are true losses.

References:

Distraction: an assessment of smartphone usage in health care work settings

Preetinder S Gill, Ashwini Kamath, Tejkaran S Gill

Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2012; 5: 105–114. Published online 2012 August 27. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S34813

PMCID: PMC3437811

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3437811/

http://www.healthmgttech.com/articles/201302/challenges-and-benefits-in-a-mobile-medical-world.php

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/01/doctors_on_social_media_share_embarrassing_photos_details_of_patients.html

Setting Boundaries on Smartphone Use in Hospitals

by RACHEL J. KATZ, M.D. on DECEMBER 24, 2013

http://blogs.einstein.yu.edu/setting-boundaries-on-smartphone-use-in-hospitals/

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