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Med Students Need Privacy Training, Caught Posting Unprofessional Messages

Published on Mon Nov 23, 2009

Incidents spark crackdown on patient privacy violations. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, today's medical students have a lot to learn -- all that anatomy and saving lives stuff. But medical schools and teaching hospitals should add some PHI training to the curriculum if they want to keep the facility out of HIPAA trouble. "Many U.S. medical schools have had cases of medical students posting unprofessional content online, including incidents where patient confidentiality was violated," says U.S. News & World Report. Medical schools across the country report instances when med students had posted unprofessional content online in places like social networking sites, according to a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In 13 percent of cases reported, patient confidentiality was violated. More commonly, students used profanity, discriminatory language and sexually suggestive terms when describing patients. Many U.S. medical schools have had cases of medical [...]
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