Mayo Clinic has created a social media center that will train other hospitals in the use of social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Mayo is billing the new venture as “a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on healthcare,” according to a statement from Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo. Mayo has proven itself to be perhaps […]
Despite being notoriously privacy conscious, a trickle of health-care systems are venturing with new-media vigor onto Facebook, Twitter and other social media applications. For the moment, it’s a pretty mundane excursion. But is America – or American health care, for that matter – ready for a future when doctors and patients friend each other, tweet together and subscribe to each others FriendFeeds?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.